Our Lady Queen of Martyrs

04/22/2026

04/08/2026

Our church so beautifully decorated for Easter Season!

04/04/2026

Join us to celebrate Easter! Masses are at 8:00AM and 10:00AM

04/04/2026

Join us this evening at 8PM as we
This is the most unique and perhaps most important liturgy of the year. The Easter Vigil ends the Triduum and begins Easter celebrations.
The service can only begin once the sun has set. Outside the church, a fire lights the Paschal candle, and the flame is shared throughout the church to individual handheld candles.

04/03/2026

Join us today for our Good Friday Services

3:00PM for The Passion Service. Following the service confessions will be heard until 6:30 PM

7:00 PM There will be the Stations of the Cross.

04/02/2026

Join us this evening to celebrate Holy Thursday commemorating the Last Supper, where Jesus instituted the Eucharist and the priesthood, and demonstrated servant leadership by washing his disciples' feet. It marks the end of Lent and is a day of profound gratitude and devotion to the sacrificial love of Jesus.

03/28/2026

Sunday March 29th is Palm Sunday, it marks the beginning of Holy Week. Come join us for the 10: 00AM Mass.

03/18/2026

Thursday 4/2 - Holy Thursday
Mass of the Lord's Supper
7:00PM - Our Lady Queen of Martyrs
After Mass Adoration will be held until 11:00PM
along with Confessions from 8:30PM through 9:30PM and
readings from St. John's Gospel every 30 minutes.

Friday 4/3 - Good Friday
3:00PM - Passion Service - Our Lady Queen of Martyrs
following the Passion Service, Confessions will be heard until 6:30PM
7:00PM Stations of the Cross

Saturday 4/4 - Holy Saturday
8:00PM Easter Vigil Our Lady Queen of Martyrs

Easter Sunday
Mass at 8:00AM and 10:00AM - Our Lady Queen of Martyrs

03/08/2026

Rev. Thomas was born on October 16th, 1944 and passed away on March 5th, 2026 at the age of 81

01/03/2026

This weekend we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany 2026

Scripture is silent about just who the Magi really were, whether they were kings, astrologers or "wise men." Historians will tell you that we don't know exactly how many of them there were. But because they brought three gifts -- gold, frankincense and myrrh -- tradition has held that there were three of them.
That, of course, is a number with powerful biblical significance, echoing the number of persons in the Trinity and the days Christ spent in the tomb.
But it also signifies something even more compelling -- and a beautiful truth we should seize on this Sunday.
It reminds us that we don't embark on the Christian journey alone. We are part of a body of believers, a community. Again and again, when Christ is revealed to the world, he doesn't show himself to just one person at a time.
Think of Christmas night, when the news was announced to shepherds -- another group, another kind of community.
This will happen repeatedly. Epiphanies abound. Think of all the times Jesus makes a kind of "manifestation" -- at his baptism, when he preaches, when he performs his first miracle, when he reappears after the Resurrection, even when encountering travelers on the road to Emmaus.
The familiar citation from Matthew 18 -- "Whenever two or more are gathered in my name, there am I with them" -- is prophetic and real.
To consider all that is to consider part of the great message of Christianity. We are meant to receive the Good News together, to live it together, to celebrate it and share it with one another. Christianity is not a solitary experience.
Thomas Merton put it beautifully: "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone. We find it with another."
And there is something else about this great feast worth noting: the Magi didn't come to the Lord empty handed. The Gospel tells us "They opened their treasures." The Magi had priceless gifts to share. So do all of us.
The prayerful question we should ask ourselves is: What do we have to give? What do we have to share with Christ and with the world?
As we celebrate Christ manifesting himself to the world, think of what that manifestation has meant to each of us, to whatever community we belong to. What can we give in return -- to God, and to one another? What are our treasures?
The Christmas season is coming to a close. But this lesson of Epiphany should stay with us: The season of giving doesn't have to end.
(Deacon Greg Kandra is an award-winning author and journalist, and creator of the blog "The Deacon's Bench.")