Our Lady Queen Of Peace
210 Princetown Rd.
Schenectady, New York 12306
(518) 346-4926
Mission Church: Saint Margaret of Cortona
Rotterdam Junction, New York 12150
PARISH NETWORK:
SEASON OF LENT 2026
Wednesday, February 18 - Thursday April 2
Lent is the time before Easter when Catholics prepare to commemorate Jesus’s Resurrection through Prayer, Penance, Fasting, and Almsgiving.
[Baskets are at entrances of the churches for the collection of old palms].
ASH WEDNESDAY
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Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 18th. We will hold masses and bless those in attendance with ashes on their foreheads as follows:
7:30 am – Our Lady Queen of Peace
9:00 am – St. Madeleine Sophie
12:15 pm – St. Gabriel’s
5:30 pm – St. Gabriel’s
6:00 pm - Our Lady Queen of Peace
7:00 pm - St. Madeleine Sophie
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Lenten Fish Fry Dinners at OLQP Parish Center on February 20, March 6, and March 20
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fasting and abstinence.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
*Thursdays: [Beginning February 19th] 6 pm at St. Margaret of Cortona followed by a simple soup supper
​*Fridays: [Beginning February 20th]
1:00pm at Our Lady Queen of Peace​
1:30pm at St. Madeleine Sophie with SMS School children
7:00pm at St. Gabriel with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, April 3rd
1:00 pm St. Madeleine Sophie
3:00 pm St. Gabriel
3:00 pm Our Lady Queen of Peace
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LENTEN REFLECTIONS WITH FATHER ANTHONY
Journey with Father through these forty days as he offers spiritual reflections on deepening baptismal promises and walking closer with Christ.
RECONCILIATION
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Our Lady Queen of Peace: Saturdays 3:00 pm
St. Madeleine Sophie: Saturdays 3:00 pm
St. Gabriel Sundays 11:30 am
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EXTRA HOURS OF RECONCILIATION
St. Madeleine Sophie: March 9th with Adoration, 6:00-8:00 pm
Our Lady Queen of Peace: March 18th 1:30-2:30 pm
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Communal Reconciliation St. Madeleine Sophie, March 24th 6:30 pm
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PALM SUNDAY MARCH 29
Jesus triumphantly enters Jerusalem
Palm Sunday follows normal weekend Mass schedule
HOLY WEEK PARISH TRIDUUM
WILL BE HELD AT ST. MADELEINE SOPHIE
HOLY THURSDAY April 2
9:00 am Morning Prayer at St. Madeleine Sophie [No 9:00 am Mass at St. Gabriels].
7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper [St. Madeleine Sophie, followed by Adoration until 10:30 pm]
GOOD FRIDAY April 3 [a day of fast and abstinence]
9:00 am Morning Prayer at St. Madeleine Sophie
1:00 pm Stations of the Cross St. Madeleine Sophie
3:00 pm Stations of the Cross OLQP and St. Gabriel's
7:30 pm Liturgy of the Lord's Passion and Death [St. Madeleine Sophie]
HOLY SATURDAY April 4
No 8:30 am Mass at OLQP
9:00 am Morning Prayer at St. Madeleine Sophie
12:00 PM Blessing of Food - St. Gabriel's and St. Madeleine
NO 4 PM MASS TODAY
8:30 pm Easter Vigil [St. Madeleine Sophie]
