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Mass Schedule Mass Schedule

 Daily Mass   8am in Chapel  Sunday Masses:  Saturday: 5pm Vigil;   Sunday:... 

Weekly Bulletin Weekly Bulletin

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Parish Organizations and Ministries

All Saints Regional Catholic School All Saints Regional Catholic School

Our parish school is situated on two campuses.  The Nursery and Pre-K programs are... 

St. Matthew’s Guild St. Matthew’s Guild

The St. Matthew’s Guild is a group that meets every Monday to count the weekly... 

Ministries of Liturgy Ministries of Liturgy

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

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St. Boniface History

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]

History of St. Boniface School and All Saints Regional Catholic School History of St. Boniface School and All Saints Regional Catholic School

St. Boniface Martyr School The dream of a St. Boniface Martyr School began in 1899, when the original church was built. Father James Donohoe, the first pastor, expressed a strong desire to see a parochial school for the children of parish families. The idea stayed alive in the 1920’s, when Father Louis Sloane, the pastor at the time, began to set... [Read more of this review]

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