Our Lady Queen of Peace has been my local church for the last four years or so. Since it's fairly close to UCD I'd often attended it before that, as well. It offers a nine p.m. Mass on Sundays which is very helpful.
It was opened and blessed by the unfairly much-maligned Dr. John Charles McQuaid on the 13th December 1953. You can read its history here.
I wrote this sonnet on the commemoration the other day. I sent it to the parish and got a two-line acknowledgement. Oh, well. My blog readers might enjoy it.
Seventy years ago, the staunch McQuaidRaised up a round tower as our forebears did
To boldly show the Faith our forebears hid
From Cromwell's soldiers and the Viking's raid.
But Satan never sleep; for in that hour
Of triumph, new and subtler foes waged war
On all our saints and martyrs suffered for
And now the land is darkened with their power.
The battle never ends; but neither shall
The grace the Triune God pours on us cease.
Amidst this strife, let us make festival
Trusting our Master Christ will bring increase
From every wound and woe and seeming fall
And let us praise our Lady Queen of Peace.
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