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Welcome To Our New Website Welcome To Our New Website

Our parish website at www.saintboniface.org has been completely redesigned and the... 

Weekly Bulletin April 19, 2009 Weekly Bulletin April 19, 2009

Below you will find this week’s bulletin. We will be posting the bulletin every... 

Masses this Week Masses this Week

  Second Sunday of Easter: Divine Mercy Sunday Acts 4:32-35; 1 John 5:1-6; John... 

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Parish Organizations and Ministries

Ministries of Liturgy Ministries of Liturgy

Altar & Environment Altar & Environment This committee helps create... 

Justice and Peace Justice and Peace

With Jesus as their model, the Justice and Peace ministry confronts injustice and... 

Hospital Visitation Hospital Visitation

By testifying to God’s healing grace and strength, parish volunteers visit... 

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St. Boniface History

Who is St. Boniface? Who is St. Boniface?

From Saint-A-Day; profiles taken from the book Saints for Young People for Every Day written by Sr. Susan Helen Wallace, FSP. Copyright © 1995 Daughters of St. Paul: This great apostle of Germany was born in Wessex, England, between the years 672 and 680. When he was small, some missionaries stayed a while at his home. They told the... [Read more of this review]

A Parish Is Born A Parish Is Born

In 1668, Joseph Carpenter and a few associates purchased a large tract of land on the North Shore of Long Island from the Matinecock Indians. This area remained a quiet, rural settlement until a post-Civil War religious fervor showed itself along the Atlantic seaboard. In 1871, a group of Methodist’s from Manhattan and Brooklyn organized the Grand... [Read more of this review]

Our Community Grows Our Community Grows

By October, 1923, a parish census showed 140 families where both spouses were Catholic, and 260 families where only one spouse was Catholic. There were then 859 Catholics in the parish. A Sunday School held at the time averaged 135 youngsters in attendance. Fifty were baptized that year; 26 made Holy Communion; thirteen couples were married; and there... [Read more of this review]

St. Boniface Expands St. Boniface Expands

In 1959, the Diocesan Commission on Parish Boundaries began its work to provide more realistic borders for the parish. It was eventually decided to increase the St. Boniface boundaries so that Shore Road to Glen Cove Avenue began the northern limit, continuing up “back road hill” to Sea Cliff Avenue, and from there to the railroad tracks.... [Read more of this review]

Our Parish Today Our Parish Today

On June 24, 1989, St. Boniface Martyr School joyfully celebrated its 60th anniversary with a reunion dinner chaired by Kathleen and John Ahearn. Many of the school’s 2,000 graduates returned for the event. Also that June, a new pastor, Reverend Michael J. Torpey, arrived. Shortly after his arrival, in response to senior members of the parish,... [Read more of this review]

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