Attention Registered Parishioners:
The parish office has taken on a huge project of updating family records of registered parishioners. A print out of your family’s record will be mailed in the coming weeks. We ask that you make changes and additions to the print out and then return the form to the parish office so that we can complete updating over the summer months. Thank you.

Vigil for Peace: confronting violence through prayer In the Church

Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 am – 12 noon
Mondays & Thursdays 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Your degree of participation in silent prayer is up to you. You are welcome to participate once or twice a week, once or twice a month, or somewhere in between. You could spend 20 or 30 minutes or an hour. Create whatever schedule works for you, while considering that the key is commitment to the cause of peace and an end to violence. Let us all reflect on the fact that only through commitment and sacrifice are the most worthwhile things in life accomplished.

A parent “circle training” workshop will be held on Thursday, August 21 from 7:00-9:00 in classroom 1. All registered families are asked to attend one of the several training workshops being offered. Please email Katie in the DRE office if you plan to attend. Other workshops will be held on Sat. Sept.6, 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00, and Thursday, September 11 from 7:00-9:00.

Religious Education Registration Form for the New Fall Program Please download the form, fill it out by tabbing through the various questions, save it using your family name as the file name and then email it back to Kremedios: kremedios@ourladyqueenofpeace.org
2008-2009 RE Registration Form

Religious Education Summer Programs
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Our Pantry Needs Replenishing!
Please help to replenish our pantry which serves nearly 140 families each month. We are running low on the following items: rice (large bags appreciated, we will rebag), dry beans (again we will repackage), canned vegetables, soup, small jars of peanut butter, small jars of jelly, pasta and
pasta sauce.

OLQP’s Annual Parish Picnic
Sunday, September 14, 1 PM - 5 PM, Bluemont Park
Special Mass Schedule on Picnic Day
8AM, 9:30 AM and 12 Noon (bilingual)
~~ no 11:15 AM or 1 PM Masses ~~
If you would like to work on the planning committee, contact Arben Cordes, arben.cordes@hqamc.army.mil
or 703-323-5330.

Matthew 25, OLQP's thrift shop is open Sundays and Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 noon. To volunteer or for additional information contact Barbara Gallagher, 703-243-1043, bgallag@comcast.net. Because we are so short on volunteers our storeroom has become overwhelmed with clothing donations. Therefore, we are asking all of our generous donors to take a break from bringing donations to the shop for the summer.

For more then two Years now, OLQP parishioners and friends have assisted our Early Learning Center and the Orphans of AIDS in Africa ministry -- at no cost whatsoever -- by purchasing Giant cards-(4 percent) or Shoppers Food Warehouse certificates (5 percent). The Social Justice Committee sells Giant cards and Shoppers certificates after each weekend Mass. Look for the red Just$ signs at the church entrance. Questions? Call Fred Cain at 703-979-5580 or fcain@ourladyqueenofpeace.org.
Just$ Form.

Create a future of peace-Join Pax Christi USA! Faithful Citizenship: Catholic Call to Political Responsibility. Pax Christ, the Catholic Peace movement, asks voters to examine the position of candidates on the full range of issues, as well as on their personal integrity, philosophy, and performance. A consistent ethic of life should be the moral framework from which to address all issue of the political arena. Call 814-453-4955; www.paxchristiusa.org.

Read Fr. Kevin Nadolski's homilies.

Read Fr. Joseph Nangle's homilies.

OLQP Book Group will be meeting in the Peace Room (basement of the Ministry Center) at 7:00 PM on Thursday, August 21 to discuss "Nobody’s Fool" by Richard Russo. Please contact Mike Wilson on
202-863-4436 or mike.wilson87@verizon.net for further information.

Young Adult Ministry Are you between the ages of 25 and 35 and interested in building an active young adult community at OLQP? We would love your ideas and input on the best ways to build a ministry to and with young adults. If interested, please contact Jennifer Browne at hefjen02@yahoo.com or Heather Kinney at hkinney@ourladyqueenofpeace.org.

Bookcase for our Library Our library continues to grow, and we could use several more bookcases (in good condition). If you have some that might fill the bill, please contact Gene Betit, 703-979-5580 or gbetit@ourladyqueenofpeace.org.