Entries for June 2023

“The Kingdom of God” themed 2023 Vacation Bible School was attended by nearly 80 children from St. Boniface, St. Lawrence, St. Ann, and St. Joseph the Worker parishes. A better understanding of the King of all Kings and the Blessed Mother was creatively shared each morning during Faith and Bible station experiences, along with Adoration. The event, which took place at the St. John Neumann Regional Academy High School, also included opportunities to learn through art, interactive snacks, music, and games. The week ended with a fun time in a castle bouncy house...

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Vacation Bible School

A huge thank you goes out to everyone who came to help make pierogis for our upcoming carnival! It's wonderful to have such willingness from parishioners of all ages and pierogi-making experience come together on two busy summer nights to make this deliciousness happen. These pierogis are a carnival favorite and the event wouldn't be the same without our homemade offerings. Don't forget to keep checking the bulletin and the website for more information on carnival dates and more opportunities to pitch in to make this year's carnival a big success. ...

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Carnival

June 25, 1995. Twenty-eight years ago I stood at the altar at St. Boniface Church to offer my first Mass. Some of you—or some of your families—were part of that day. On that afternoon, I had no idea that twenty-eight years later I’d be at the altar again, as your pastor. My ordination invitation began with the words “With joy and gratitude to almighty God…” Twenty-eight years later that pretty much sums it up. How grateful I am for every assignment. How grateful for the moments of joy and sorrow when people welcomed me into their live...

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Are you interested in a personal relationship with God? Have you been attending Mass but cannot fully participate in the sacraments? Are you searching for a faith community? Do you desire to learn more about the Catholic faith? OCIA is for YOU… OCIA stands for Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. For those seeking to be initiated into the Catholic church, OCIA is learning about and growing in the Catholic faith and deepening your relationship with Jesus Christ, leading to the reception of the sacraments of baptism (if necessary), Confirmation, and the Eucharis...

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RCIA

There are several important dates coming up over the summer months to get ready for our annual carnival. Help is needed from parishioners to make sure we are ready for this important community event and fundraiser. June 26: Pierogi Making Night 6 p.m. in the St. Boniface school gym July 22 & 29: Carnival letter and raffle ticket distribution August 5: Buckets available for the popular theme bucket stand August 21 (August 22 rain date): First set up night for food/cooking stands; cleaning garage refrigerators, and staging game prizes. Teenagers are encou...

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Carnival

If you or a family member is hospitalized and would like a pastoral visit from a priest, please call the parish office. Hospitals and healthcare facilities do not always make the parish aware when someone is admitted.

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It has been almost three weeks since I moved into the parish communities of St. Boniface and St. Lawrence. To say the least, it has been a time of great gratitude! Since May 30th I have met many new faces, seen a few familiar ones, and tried my best to learn a few hundred names. However, despite my horrible ability to remember names (which I will over time), the sense I have received from our community is one rooted in gratitude and service. A historic and faithful community that shares its joys, hopes, sufferings, and trials with one another in such a committed way. I am b...

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Why feed the hungry? When you are hungry but there isn’t food on the shelves or in the refrigerator, and money needs to go to rent, heat, and electricity, what do you do? We offer a way to help families through this with our food collection boxes at St. Boniface and St. Lawrence. Working together we can help Sojourner Truth provide daily lunches and the Salvation Army Food Pantry provide food for their 160-plus families. It takes all of us to make this happen. Please be part of this ministry by donating unexpired food into the collections boxes or helping deliver food...

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Congratulations to Yvonne Mitchell! For almost 30 years, week after week, season by season, through Christmas Eves and Holy Weeks, All Souls Day requiems and special events such as Amahl and the Night Visitors and Music for Mary, Yvonne has brought her artistry to St. Boniface's magnificent Ruffatti organ and our Yamaha piano. She has made us happier to gather together in worship and more aware of the presence of the Lord. As her colleague, I have known Yvonne to be always generous with her time and her considerable talent. When she told me of her intention to retire, I...

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Please use Father's Day envelopes provided in your parish contribution envelopes to donate a special gift for our living & deceased fathers. Envelopes should be placed in the collection boxes. Your donation envelopes will be placed on the altar for the Father's Day Masses. In addition, feel free to take and use the greeting cards on the tables in the back of each church that you can give to the living fathers in your lives.

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Long before Corpus Christi was a city in Texas, it was a feast in the Catholic Church. Corpus Christi (technically Corpus et Sanguinis Christi) is the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. One thing this day has never been: the feast of the bread and the wine. The whole point of what we do at Mass is to ask the Father to send the Holy Spirit to change bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Miraculous, mysterious, but true. But, sadly, many Catholics seem to have lost that truth. Many, if not most, Catholics polled don’t believe it anymore. That shoul...

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Come join us on Monday, June 12, and/or Monday, June 26 in the St. Boniface school cafeteria at 6 p.m. No experience necessary!  Just bring your desire to have fun, laugh, and enjoy helping us prepare for another successful church carnival. We need rollers, pinchers, potato fillers, and runners. With enough help, we will be done in less than two hours. Hope to see you! 

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Carnival

As we move through the Church’s year we’re so often reminded that we celebrate “with the Church throughout the world.” Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost—even today, Most Holy Trinity—are times that Catholics, wherever they are, hear the same words, offer the same prayers, and celebrate the same mighty works of God. But, the Church also gives great feast days for the local community—the patronal feast and the feast of the local Church’s dedication. Tomorrow is one of those days: the feast of St. Boniface. We celebrate it with ...

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National Eucharistic Revival-Corpus Christi:  The dioceses of the United States are currently engaged in a multi-year National Eucharistic Revival to renew the Church by enkindling in the faithful a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.  We are now approaching the parish phase of the Revival beginning on Sunday, June 11, 2023, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). To commemorate the beginning of the parish phase of the National Eucharistic Revival, our parish will be offering a Eucharistic E...

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There will be a special 7 a.m. Mass on Monday, June 5 at St. Boniface to celebrate the feast day of St. Boniface (patron saint of Germany, bishop, and martyr c. 675-754). Please note that there will be no morning mass at St. Lawrence on June 5.

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