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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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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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: Tues., 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 APRIL 13
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]
