We will, along with other area churches, be ringing our bells at St. Boniface each day at 3:00 PM for all the frontline workers serving us during the COVID-19 crisis: our healthcare professionals and other essential workers – police officers, firefighters, EMT’s, sanitation, utility and shop workers. When you hear the bells, please pause and say a prayer for our brave community servants.
Honoring Frontline Heroes
Virtual Stations of the Cross
This Lent our Friday Stations of the Cross are being prayed online due to the health crisis. At 3 pm EDT, go to Zoom.us and choose meeting #921-737-0728.
Mass and Devotions Online
Because of our continuing health crisis, public Masses remain suspended, but Sunday Mass will be live streamed each Sunday, at 10:30 am EDT via our parish Facebook page St. Boniface Martyr Parish–https://www.facebook.com/StBonifaceMartyr/.
Follow this link for our online Holy Week and Easter schedule.
Videos of all streamed Masses will remain available on Facebook for anyone who cannot join in live, and it will also remain available on our website and on YouTube for anyone not using Facebook.
While the crisis keeps us from gathering physically together, we are blessed with these digital opportunities to stay and pray together. May God bless and keep us all safe.
Below is a video of Sunday Mass for March 22, 2020 which was live-streamed at our parish Facebook page St. Boniface Martyr Parish on Sunday, March 22, 2020.
Lenten Family Workshops
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Due to the Covid-19 Virus crisis, our Lenten Workshop series is being held online as a Zoom Webinar instead of as an in-person meeting.
The final session takes place on Sunday, March 29, 2020.
To access the webinar click here, or follow the below steps:
Here’s what you need to do:
1) At 1 PM login to: zoom.us.
2) When prompted for the Meeting Room ID: type in: 921-737-0728.
Please feel free to invite friends and family to watch!
For latest updates on this Lenten Retreat visit our Parish Facebook page. Questions? Call/text Belinda 516-551-2788 or email stbonym@gmail.com
2020 LENTEN RETREAT FAMILY WORKSHOP SERIES
By the St. Boniface Martyr Faith Formation Office
“God always knocks at the door of hearts. He likes to do this. It comes from His heart. But, do you know what He likes best? To knock on the doors of families and find families that are united, to find families that love each other, to find the families that bring up their children and educate them and help them to keep going forward and that create a society of goodness, of truth, and of beauty.” – Pope Francis
Join us online for the rest of our 4-part series of Family Workshops on Sundays – March 22 and 29 at 1:00 PM.
Covid-19 Suspensions
The Diocese of Rockville Centre has announced that all Masses and activities are suspended throughout the Diocese due to the COVID-19 Virus through April 14. All other events scheduled at St. Boniface Martyr are cancelled as well.
We have been celebrating Sunday Mass and conducting activities and devotions online. Plans are underway to celebrate Holy Week and Easter liturgies and devotions online.
Media Announcement from the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
Beginning Monday, March 16, 2020 at 3:00 PM, all Masses (weekday and weekend), meetings, and non-essential activities in our parishes are suspended or postponed through Tuesday, April 14, 2020. This will include all Holy Week and Easter Liturgies. However, these will be televised and available online.
The Catholic Faith Network (CFN) will provide televised and online daily Masses, including Holy Week and Easter Liturgies, as well as other devotional and spiritual programs. (Optimum channel 29/137, Verizon FiOS TV channel 296, and Spectrum channel 162/471.) CFN is also available on selected cable and satellite systems and through 24/7 live stream at CFNtv.org. You can also watch CFN on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android, or by downloading the CFN iOS mobile app at the app store by searching “Catholic Faith Network” or “CFN”.
Mass Attendance/Health Precautions
As a health precaution, the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre announces the following directives effective immediately:
1. Catholics are hereby dispensed from their obligation to attend Sunday Mass for the weekends of March 14-15, March 21-22 and March 28-29. Churches will remain open and Mass schedules will remain mostly unchanged. However, the obligation is lifted for those three weekends. We will continue to monitor official health advisories and update these directives accordingly.
2. We urge everyone who is sick, elderly or vulnerable because of a medical condition, to remain at home. People in these categories are not obliged to attend Mass. Please understand that Mass schedules and availability, as well as parish and diocesan events may change, especially if our clergy is affected by illness. Please check your parish web site for local Mass schedules, updates and changes, and please consult Diocese of Rockville Centre social media (Facebook:@RVCdiocese; Twitter: @RVCDiocese) and webpage (www.drvc.org) for Diocesan updates and changes.
3. Catholics who attend Holy Mass are not required to receive Holy Communion more than once per year. No one is under any obligation to either receive or distribute Holy Communion. Catholics who choose to temporarily refrain from receiving Holy Communion may make an act of Spiritual Communion, uniting themselves worthily to our Lord’s true presence in the Most Holy Eucharist through prayer.
4. Holy Mass can be viewed on the Catholic Faith Network and online. Information regarding schedules and viewing online is provided below.
Feast by the Shore Organizational Meeting
Please consider volunteering to help at this year’s Tenth Annual “Feast by the Shore”, scheduled for May 14 through May 17, 2020. ALL ARE WELCOME!! It would be GREAT to see some new faces to help plan this year’s fun-filled family event.
An organizational meeting will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 7 pm at the Parish Center.
St. Patrick’s Day Party March 1
One of our Parish’s oldest social traditions! Full corned beef dinner, shepherd’s pie and, beer, wine, soda, dessert and more. Live Irish music by the Kitty Kelly Band, stepdancers and Irish pipers. Tickets Available after Mass, at the Parish Center and online.
March 1, 2020 at the
Knights of Columbus Hall
81 Sea Cliff Avenue, Glen Cove, NY 1542
Senior Citizens Prom
Please join us at the Senior Citizens Prom after 12 Noon Mass Sunday Feb 2, 2020.
Mingling Mondays EVENT CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
EVENT CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Mingling Mondays… February 3, March 2 and June 1, 2020 at 7 pm in the Faith Formation Office on the first floor of the School building.
This is an opportunity to keep informed about the parish and how you can be a part of it. Please join us for beverage and conversation. Got questions? Good, bring them with you! All parishioners welcome!
Future Mingling Mondays: February 3, March 2 and June 1, 2020 at 7 pm