St. Boniface Church - Northside

06/24/2026

Birth of John the Baptist (Solemnity): June 24
“Christians are called to be good stewards of the personal vocations they receive,” the US bishops say in their pastoral letter on stewardship. “Each of us must discern, accept, and live out joyfully and generously the commitments, responsibilities,
and roles to which God calls him or her.”
This call is clear in St. John the Baptist. St. Augustine says of him: “For when yet unborn, he leapt in his mother’s womb at the arrival of blessed Mary. In that womb he had already been designated a prophet." St. John, pray for us!

06/23/2026

06/22/2026

Steward Saint: Paulinus of Nola (354-431)
After a career as a lawyer, he retired at 35 to enjoy a luxurious life. However, God had other plans! Shortly after retirement, St. Paulinus and his wife, Therasia, were baptized. Then, saddened by the death of their infant son, they gave away their wealth and moved to Nola. They embraced a monastic lifestyle and set up a hospice to care for the sick and house pilgrims visiting the shrine of St. Felix.
In 409, Paulinus was called to use his experience in public affairs as Bishop of Nola. St. Paulinus used all his gifts in the service of the Lord. In a poem dedicated to St. Felix, this good steward said, “With all my wealth I pay for the hope of heaven, because hope and faith are of much more value than all the riches of this world.”

06/21/2026

Today is the first day of summer. What is one thing you want to do this summer?

06/21/2026

Happy Father's Day to all men who serve in a father role. What is your favorite Father's Day tradition?

06/21/2026

Steward Saint: Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591)
Feast Day: June 21
Born into nobility, his father wanted him to become a soldier but St. Aloysius was determined to enter the religious life. He transferred his inheritance to his brother and became a Jesuit. During the plague of 1591, the Jesuits opened a hospital. St. Aloysius contracted the disease while helping there and died several months later. Revered for his innocence, St. Aloysius is the patron of youth and young students.

06/19/2026

Steward Sint: St. Romuald (951-1027)
Feast Day: June 19
Many saints are celebrated for their preaching and evangelization; St. Romuald is remembered instead for the gifts of silence and solitude.
He entered a Benedictine monastery when he was 20, but longed for a more secluded lifestyle. He led the life of a hermit, spending the next 30 years founding monasteries and hermitages throughout Italy and established the order of Camaldolese Benedictines. There are still Camaldolese hermits today, committed to a life of prayer and solitude. In our busy culture, remember that making time for prayer is good stewardship of the time God has given us. St. Romuald, pray for us!

06/16/2026

By the mid-1970s, Fr. Michael Joncas was a 24-year-old from Minneapolis who had temporarily left the path to priesthood, uncertain about his vocation, immersed in church music, liturgy and the turbulence of America after Vietnam.

Five decades later, the hymn he wrote during a moment of private grief, "On Eagle's Wings," has become one of the most recognizable religious songs in the English-speaking world, crossing denominational boundaries and accompanying funerals, memorial services and moments of national mourning, from parish churches to presidential speeches.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the hymn's creation, a song born quietly in 1975 and first sung publicly at a funeral in Omaha, Nebraska, in April 1976. https://bit.ly/49MrC5C