Our Lady Queen of Peace

Welcome to OLQP Catholic Church!
Contact Information:
Address: 2700 19th Street South
Arlington VA 22204
Phone: 703-979-5580
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.olqpva.org
Pastor:
Fr. Tim Hickey, C.S.Sp., [email protected]
Associate Pastor:
Fr. Tom Tunney C.S.Sp., [email protected]
Ministerio Latino:
Fr. Joseph Nangle, O.F.M., [email protected]
Deacon:
Rev. Mr. Tony Remedios, [email protected]
Daily Mass Schedule During Lent:
Monday - Thursday - 12 Noon; Fridays – 6 pm
Weekend Mass Schedule:
Saturdays - 5:30 pm Vigil
Sundays - 8:00 am, 9:30 am, 11:15 am,
1:00 pm (Spanish), and 6:00 pm (Young Adult Mass)
Our Lady Queen of Peace Church
Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz
February 22, 2015
The First Sunday of Lent
THE LIGHT IS ON FOR YOU
The Sacrament of Penance is offered Wednesday
evenings from 6:30 to 8 pm during Lent.
Reconciliation Services:
7 pm – Feb 25
7 pm – Mar 11, Bilingual
6:30 pm – Mar 25, Family Service (open to all)
Sung Stations of the Cross:
7 pm – Mar 4, 18 and Apr 1
Baptism:
Please call or email the office to make arrangements.
Marriage Preparation:
Please contact Fr. Tim Hickey at least six months
before wedding date to complete requirements.
Reconciliation:
Saturdays - 4:45-5:15 pm and by appointment
Religious Education Director:
Katie Remedios, [email protected]
Social Justice and Outreach Minister:
Michelle Knight, [email protected]
Youth Minister:
Contact, [email protected]
Office Receptionist / Hispanic Liaison:
Thelma Molina, [email protected]
Office Administrative Assistants:
Jeannette Gantz Daly, [email protected]
Michele Chang, [email protected]
Office Business Manager:
Christina Kozyn, [email protected]
Maintenance Supervisor:
Michael Hill, [email protected]
BULLETIN DEADLINE
Wednesday—9 AM
[email protected]
OLQP MISSION STATEMENT
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church is dedicated to
witnessing the teachings of Jesus Christ, especially the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 25:31-46. Our mission is to
nurture the spirit and to encourage the potential of those we
serve through liturgical celebration, educational endeavors
and social ministries. The parish will continue to identify with
its origin as a Black parish. As a multi-ethnic congregation we
will seek to promote racial harmony and social justice. While
our primary focus is within the immediate community, we
will also work to provide for the well-being of the downtrodden everywhere. In this we strive for our parish community
to be a caring, sharing, and loving family.
INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY- Please refer to our Parish
website: www.olqpva.org for any updates on the current
weather.
Jesus came to Galilee
proclaiming the gospel;
“The reign of God is at Hand!”
Mk 1:14-15
THIS WEEKEND’S SECOND COLLECTION
BLACK AND INDIAN MISSION FUND
THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
PEACE ASPIRATIONS… “To live without hope is to cease to live.” Dostoyevski
Gn 9:8-15; 1 Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15
Next Sunday’s readings (The Second Sunday of Lent)
Gn 22:1-2, 9A, 10-13, 15-18; Rom 8:31B-34; Mk 9:2-10
OUR SICK AND HOMEBOUND STRENGTHEN US
Please pray for: Elizabeth Ball, Suri Barahona, Ronald Bashian, Francis
Bilgera, Precious Bowens, April Brassard, Lynne Burgh, Ed Burlas, Brody Carroll, Louise Chambers, Carmen Rosa Claure, Ginger Cordle, Mary DaLuca,
Cheryl Darby, Adrienne DiCerbo, Ernest Donatto, Marye Embrey, Yevette
Francois, Allison Fratus, Jeanna Fratus, Karen Gammache, Trishann Ganley,
Carmen Gonzalez, Linda Hawkins, Dee Hickey, Margaret Hodges, Beatriz
Uribe Jaramillo, Raymond Jay, Pat Johnson, Carmen Andrea Lara, Patrick
Lawrey, Ally Winstan Ley, Maria Linares, Lidia Montero Lopez, Mary Helen
Madden, Wil McBride, Stefan McGuigan, Martha Gladys Medina, Roberto
Méndez, Mary Miller, Yvonne Mockler, Carmen Montijo, Dorothy Moran,
Bob Morsches, Chelsea Murray, Patrick Ogden, Delfima Pacheco-Choque,
Catherine Parr, Mary Pasquarella, Catherine Peake, Yulmar Perla, Paul
Ramirez, Kate Ring, Maritza Roldan, Carolyn Santos, Jane Shepard, Elizabeth
Skocz, Jeffrey Smith, Mary E. Smith, Eva Souza, Marguerite Thomas, Christian
Ventura, Claudia Waller, Dottie Williams, Mary Woods.
MASS INTENTIONS FOR FEBRUARY 21-27
5:30 pm for Tony Sobral (D) by Jermaine Sobral
8:00 am for the Parish
9:30 am for Christopher Ndumu (D) by Mary Manga & Family
11:15 am for James & Edna Jenkins (D) by Mr & Mrs. Carleton Jenkins
1:00 pm for the Parish
6:00 pm for Becky Makar (D) by Mary Maddan & Jennifer Newman
Tues. 12 noon- for Leslie J. McTyre– Safe & Blessed Trip (L) by Ines G. Mctyre
Wed. 12 noon- for Cesa T. Francia (D) by Susan Francia
Thurs. 12 noon- for Mary Louise Chang (D) by Michele Chang
In Memoriam
FRANCES LUMPKIN
Died in the Lord February 17, 2015
Frances Lumpkin was a long-time member, very active in several ministries including the Seasoned Christians. Please keep the Lumpkin family
in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time, especially her
grandson Sebastian Jakubowski. Many will remember Frances’ daughter
Leslie who passed in 2007. A note of condolence may be sent to 2618 S
Ives St, Arlington, VA 22202. Funeral arrangements for Monday, February 23: Viewing 10 am, Funeral Mass 11 am (Burial will take place at a
later date at Arlington National Cemetery).
SUNDAY COLLECTIONS
Collection: $10,209
Faith Direct January weekly average: $7,621
JUST $ - OLQP recently sent a check for one-half the net proceeds from
the Just$ program over the past six months, plus private donations, to
the St. Joseph HIV/AIDS Self-Help Group in Mweiga, Kenya. These funds
will be welcomed because the Mweiga community is experiencing a
drought, and according to Brother Haron: No crops in the farms and
animals are dying, so the issues of food for children and HIV/people has
been disturbing me. We are having hope that rain will come, God cannot leave us to suffer. You can help the children in Mweiga and the
OLQP Food Pantry by using the Just$ program to purchase groceries.
MINKISI CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER SESSION - For Lent, come to
Minkisi’s small group session of contemplative prayer on Luke 7:37b-38,
47-50. Meet Mon., Mar. 2, 7:15 pm, Parish Discussion Room/Parish
Office. For more info- contact Cecilia Braveboy: [email protected],
703-979-5389.
GLFF (Gay, Lesbian, Friends & Family), OLQP's LGBT ministry, will
meet on Monday, March 2nd at 7pm in the Founder's Room. We will be
discussing the Interfaith Voices Podcast "Gay in the Eyes of God: How
Twelve Traditions View Gay and Lesbian People." The complete series
can be found at http://interfaithradio.org/lgbt. Contact Vicky
Strimel, [email protected]. All are welcome.
STONE SOUP SUPPER -- Join us for the second in our Stone Soup Supper
Series on Friday, February 27. We will begin with Mass in the Church at 6
and will move to the Hall for soup at 6:45. At 7:15, L’Arche will be presenting a mini-retreat, Living Together. All are welcome, but please RSVP
to Liz Yoder: 202.232.4539; [email protected].
HAITI EASTER DRIVE -- This Lent, as we anticipate the joy and promise of
Easter, the Haiti Committee rejoices in the progress Our Lady Queen of
Peace and St. Joseph’s have made in Medor. The children are healthier
than when we began our twinning relationship in 1997. Their cheeks are
round; their skin glows; their eyes shine. Those who go to school get a
warm lunch every day. These lunches also supply de-worming medicine,
fortified salt, and vitamins. As our relationship with St. Joseph’s has
deepened, the parish and Medor have become less isolated. Two sisters
there, Sister Nalta and Sister Elita, can screen women for cervical cancer;
Dr. Valery at St. Nicolas Hospital in St. Marc, which is a sizable city about
a day’s walk from Medor, allows the women who test positive to be
treated without charge at his hospital. We’ve partnered with Haiti Air
Ambulance to provide transportation for those who have a medical
emergency to a hospital for the immediate care they need. Your continued support of our ministry has helped us achieve greater health for the
people of Medor. Thank you and God bless!
BREAKFAST CREWS NEED VOLUNTEERS! The breakfast crews are made
up of 8 crews of 8-10 volunteers each who cook up eggs, bacon, pancakes, and hash browns for about 200 people - and it is always exciting! A crew’s commitment is once every 2 months- so only 6 times in
a year. We’re looking for new volunteers— it’s a great chance to volunteer for our church, to get to know other church members and to volunteer as a family. To learn more, please contact Kelly Lesperance:
[email protected] or 202-413-6805.
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES RICE BOWL… Rice Bowls are available at the
back of the church after all masses. Our CRS Rice Bowl journey begins in
Tanzania, where a simple soybean makes a difference as people hunger
for a better life. Learn something about Tanzania, where our own Fr.
Tom served for many years. Best of luck on your journey!
OLQP LIBRARY NEWS… For those who are new to the parish: OLQP has
a library located in Fr. Ray Hall that houses over 5,000 volumes on various categories of religious studies as well as topics such as Social Justice,
Peace, and Environment. Please come and browse. The library operates
on the honor system. Borrowers must sign out the books they choose
and return them by at least one month. Instructions are posted at the
check-out desk. Questions? Contact Michal, [email protected].
RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA)
Rite of Sending and Rite of Election This Weekend
Our catechumens and candidates will participate in the Rite of Sending at Saturday's 5:30 pm Mass. Through this Rite, their sponsors will
testify to our parish community that the catechumens and candidates have taken their formation seriously, have given evidence of
their conversion and are ready to move forward in the RCIA process.
Our catechumens (those seeking to be baptized and received into
the Church) will sign the Book of the Elect, and our candidates (those
seeking full communion with the Catholic Church) will sign the Book
of Reception. From there, we will go to St. Thomas More Cathedral
for the Rite of Election. Through this celebration, the Church is recognizing that God has called these women and men to his banquet
of love and to his work of building the Kingdom. One of our catechumens will go forward on behalf of the group for Bishop Loverde to
sign the Book of the Elect. Please continue to pray for our participants as they prepare to receive the Sacraments of Initiation at the
Easter Vigil.
February 22, 2015, The First Sunday of Lent
Fr. Tim’s ‘JUST A THOUGHT OR TWO…’ will return next
week.
SOME Empty Bowls Lenten Supper to feed the Hungry -- Join us Wed,
March 25, 6-8pm at St. Ann Catholic Church (5300 10th St. N, Arlington).
A $25 donation at the door and you will have the opportunity to select
and take home a beautiful handmade bowl crafted by local artists and
enjoy a supper of soup, bread and dessert donated by local restaurants. The proceeds from the event help SOME continue to provide more
than 1,000 meals each day to the hungry and homeless in our community. For information, contact Rebecca: [email protected], 202-7978806, ext 1024, or www.some.org.
LENT AND THE INTEGRITY OF CREATION -- The Global Catholic Climate
Movement is encouraging Catholics around the world to pray and fast in
solidarity with those who are most affected by the changing global climate. Every day of Lent a different country will be fasting in unity with
the poor. To join the American hunger fast on March 16, visit http://
catholicclimatemovement.global/
and
https://franciscanaction.org/
article/sign-fast-climate-justice-march-16th.
2015 BISHOP’S LENTEN APPEAL
STEWARDS OF CHRIST SHARING GOSPEL JOY!
The Diocese of Arlington is a vibrant diocese and we have been truly
blessed. Yet, with this blessing comes increased spiritual and pastoral
needs and an even greater obligation to help the many people in our
midst who require our assistance and support. We are asking all families
in our parish to support the Bishop’s Lenten Appeal (BLA) to the fullest
extent that they are able. Thank you for helping us share the Joy of the
Gospel through your support of the BLA!
COME AND REFRESH YOUR SOUL WITH SUNG STATIONS OF THE CROSS
On three Wednesday evenings during Lent – March 4, March 18 and April
1 at 7 pm -- In the meditative style of Taize, the Stations of the Cross will
be sung. The music and reflections were composed by local praise and
worship leaders Andrew Howley and Ed Patrick; the sung Stations will be
led by Monica Perz-Waddington and music ministers from OLQP. Reconciliation is offered every Wednesday evening during Lent from 6:30-8
pm. Contact Monica Perz-Waddington for more information: [email protected], 703-629-2841.
A BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT, FEEL THE HERITAGE FESTIVAL IN ARLINGTON is next Sat., Feb. 28, 1-6 p.m. at Drew Community Center. Visit
this link for info: http://parks.arlingtonva.us/events/feel-the-heritagefestival/
STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SPIRITANS… Sign up to receive the current
news of the Spiritans at http://www.spiritans.org/ The newsletter “One
Heart, One Spirit” will be emailed bi-monthly – the January/February
issue is now available. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page and
submit your email address under “Stay Connected”.
QUEEN OF PEACE ARLINGTON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Phone (703) 521-8615; FAX (703) 521-1960
email: [email protected] web site: www.qpafcu.com
Serving the Queen of Peace Community 1964-2015
Office Hours: Sunday, 10:45 a.m.—1:00 p.m., Saturday 4:30 p.m. – 5:25 p.m.
(before the 5:30 p.m. Mass), the first Thursday of the month, 7:30—9:00
p.m., and by appointment. The office is located in the Ministry Center, first
floor, main entrance to building.
Car Loans from the Credit Union! See the credit union for purchase of a new
or used car, or to refinance a car loan at another lender. “New Car” rates
apply to all 2014 and 2015 model year cars. The “Cash Back” of $50 for car
loans of $7,500 or more has been extended for all of 2015. Car loans can be
approved prior to the purchase of a specific vehicle – so you know the loan
amount pre-approved BEFORE you go shopping for that new or used car.
the credit union office.
PLASTIC BAGS WANTED! Please bring your grocery store plastic bags and
deposit them in the Food collection bin. We need them for re-packaging
50# bags of produce for our Food Pantry. Thanks!
CLOTHING DONATIONS NEEDED… Our Matt 25 Bazaar is looking rather
bare. We are in need of your gently used cold weather clothing for all
ages. We are always in need of shoes and coats. We also accept small
household items, especially linens and towels. Drop them in one of the
blue bins in the church parking lot.
SIGN THE PARISH PETITION AGAINST WAGE THEFT - after Mass on 3/1!
Please consider signing the parish petition asking that the Department of
Labor issue regulations requiring that all employers provide pay
stubs. These regulations would help 20 million workers who do not receive pay stubs, and both help prevent wage theft and make the crime
easier to prove. The Labor Team will make the petition available after all
of the Masses - English and Spanish - the weekend of March 1. Please
don't leave church without signing this important petition! Email Laura
([email protected]) with questions.
RUNNING THE DISTANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION – parishioner Elizabeth Loveless and her family are long-time members. She is a child and
adolescent therapist and has been chosen to run this year's Boston Marathon as part of the Samaritan team. Samaritans, a suicide prevention non
-profit, helps teens on the streets as they fight drug addiction, homelessness and suicide. She raised $9,000 as part of her commitment and is
seeking your help to raise more. Please consider supporting this worthwhile effort. Any amount is a big help. Thanks! Contribute directly at the
fundraising page: https://www.crowdrise.com/samaritansboston2015/
fundraiser/lizloveless
PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSICAINS NEEDED TO HELP PUT THE GOSPEL
INTO ACTION BY HELPING OUR INCARCERATED BROTHERS Musicians
are needed Thursdays from 7:30-9 pm at the Arlington Jail to support a
newly-formed Catholic Praise and Worship program. This is a new initiative. Contact Bill Hall: 703-841-3832, [email protected] or Father Paul Bergout: 703-841-3805.
It’s Official! — Fr. Brandon Bay Nguyen, CSSp., will join the
parish as our new Associate Pastor on Tuesday, February 24,
and work alongside Fr. Tim, Fr. Tom, Fr.
Joe, Fr. Bob and Deacon Tony.
Fr. Brandon was born in Vietnam, and at
the youthful age of 14, escaped from
Vietnam with 3 siblings. After a year’s
stay in a refugee camp in Malaysia he
later settled in Portland Oregon and
eventually moved to California to finish
university studies and to be with his parents. He graduated
from California State Fullerton with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and entered religious life 4 years later. He joined the
Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) and was ordained on
November 11, 2000.
Fr. Brandon’s parish assignments included St. Joseph Church,
Conway, Arkansas and Our Lady of the Valley, Hemet, Calif. He
was also a vocation director for a number of years. Most recently he worked in Vietnam as a Novice Director where 13
students professed as Spiritan members – by his account, “a
fruitful two years filled with a lot of blessings and also full of
challenges”.
Fr. Brandon looks forward to his work as a Spiritan missionary
at OLQP. Let us welcome him with great enthusiasm as we
realize new and exciting growth. God bless the Spiritans, this
wonderful parish and all the good people who make it so.
www.olqpva.org — follow us on Twitter: olqpva
Black History Month 2015
“A Century of Black Life, History and Culture”
W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP and the “Birth of a Nation”
This last Bulletin article of Black History
Month 2015 rounds out this series which
detailed the anniversaries of significant
events in African American history: Week
1—overview of the life of Carter G. Woodson
founder of the Association for the Study of
African American Life and History (ASALH),
and (originally) Black History Week; Week
2—the centennial of St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church in Alexandria; and, Week 3—the 50th
anniversary of the Selma March and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In week 4, the series closes out with the
founding of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Though officially founded in 1909, events
including the release of the film “Birth of a
Nation” in 1915 galvanized the NAACP and
other like organizations around the common
cause of equality for all. The following excerpt from “Long Road to Equality” by John
Kirk1/, illustrates the impetus, and the aftermath of the founding of the NAACP.
Following the Reconstruction era (18651877), “….The US Supreme Court condoned
segregation in Plessy v Ferguson (1896) by
upholding the legal doctrine of ‘separate but
equal’. Homer Plessy had appealed against
his jail sentence for sitting in a train carriage
for whites only. The court said that as long as
facilities for blacks were ‘equal’ to whites,
the phrase used in the 14th Amendment,
they could be provided separately. In practice, separate hardly ever meant equal.
“Beneath the velvet glove of constitutional
subtleties lay an iron fist of violence and intimidation. It was not just the vigilantism of
groups like the Ku Klux Klan that enforced
white supremacy. The idea became deeply
embedded in southern society. AfricanAmericans who transgressed the law, or who
simply failed to show adequate deference to
whites, could face deadly consequences.
Lynchings were rife. One study compiled by
the NAACP reported 3,224 lynchings of African-Americans between 1889 and 1919.
“African-Americans responded in a number
of ways. Those who could afford to do so
publications and research, was the only black
executive officer. In 1910, he became editor
of the NAACP’s influential journal The Crisis.
During its first decade, NAACP membership
grew from less than 200 to more than 50,000
nationwide.
W.E.B. DuBois
moved in the Great Migration to northern
and western cities. Although they escaped
formal segregation in the South, they often
encountered other forms of racial discrimination elsewhere. But there were many who
viewed the South as their home, a place
where they had been born and raised and
where they had family ties. Some subscribed
to the ideas of southern-born Booker T.
Washington, a former slave and America’s
foremost black leader at the turn of the century. Washington extolled the benefits of
individual thrift and hard work, and the
building of strong black institutions as the
key to uplifting his race. Although his approach has sometimes been dismissed as too
tolerant of segregation and oppressive conditions, it offered a pragmatic response to a
worsening racial climate when AfricanAmericans had few alternatives open to
them.
“Washington’s most outspoken critic was the
northern, free-born, Harvard-educated black
intellectual and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. From
the marginally less oppressive racial climate
of the North, Du Bois advocated forthright
and unceasing protest against all forms of
racial discrimination. In July 1905, he led 29
black activists in forming the Niagara Movement, … which demanded ‘every right that
belongs to a free-born American – political,
civil and social’….the Niagara Movement
became a forerunner of the NAACP.
A meeting in New York City in May-June
1909… led to the founding of a National Negro Conference. The next year it was renamed the NAACP. DuBois, as director of
OLQP Bulletin Back Page — February 22, 2015
“The NAACP’s growth built on its early campaigns. It lobbied Congress to pass an antilynching bill. Though unsuccessful in this
ambition, it succeeded in raising public
awareness of the problem. When D.W.
Griffith’s 1915 film “Birth of a Nation” glorified the Klan and included derogatory black
stereotypes, NAACP members protested
outside cinemas. During the First World War,
the NAACP won appointments of black army
officers in segregated units. Du Bois called
for African-Americans to ‘close ranks’ and to
fight and prove their worth to the nation.
“In 1930 the NAACP was successful in helping
to block President Herbert Hoover’s Supreme
Court nomination of Judge John J. Parker.
The NAACP objected to Parker’s past racist
rhetoric and his vocal opposition to black
suffrage. Its 1930 annual conference declared of this victory: ‘The NAACP Comes of
Age’.
The political and demographic changes of the
1930s had a far-reaching impact on the
NAACP. President Roosevelt’s New Deal ushered in an era of more active federal government….”
Barack Obama’s election as US president in
2008 points to how far things have changed
in the last 100 years. Yet the vestiges of slavery and Jim Crow discrimination endure a
century later in income inequality, unequal
justice and voter suppression, demonstrating
there’s still a way to go. Even past the centenary of the NAACP’s founding, America
stands once again at a racial crossroads.
Submitted by Natasha Ofosu
1/ John A. Kirk is Professor of US History at
Royal Holloway, University of London.
http://www.historytoday.com/john-kirk/long
-road-equality-african-americans