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Who We Are

We are a community of people who want to know and follow Jesus. Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, we’d love you to come and be amongst us. Here’s some helpful information about us. Look around and see if you feel called to be with us.

Mission

Our mission is to create a community of Jesus’ disciples based on his good news, rooted in prayer and sacramental worship that will enable us to bear one another’s burdens and share each other’s joys, to be aware of our calling as apostles, with compassionate outreach to the larger community with our Diocese and Universal Church.

Prayer

We believe we are called to be a house of prayer for all nations and therefore prayer is key to all that we do, and it features highly amongst our activities throughout the week.

Community

We strive to create and maintain community through our care and concern for others and celebrating the sacraments of the Church. We hope to make a connection with others through genuine action and grace.

Social Justice

Part of the vision of Saint Boniface Church is to leave footprints of justice, hope and mercy across our town, playing our part in loving and serving our local communities. We want to help anyone in need wherever we can – regardless of race, religion, age, gender, sexuality, marital status or disability.

As well as starting our own initiatives, we’re delighted to support many pre-existing projects that work hard to improve the lives of local people.

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The Joy of the Gospel

The new evangelization for the transmission of the faith

14. Attentive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit who helps us together to read the signs of the times, the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops gathered from 7-28 October 2012 to discuss the theme: The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith. The Synod reaffirmed that the new evangelization is a summons addressed to all and that it is carried out in three principal settings.

In first place, we can mention the area of ordinary pastoral ministry, which is “animated by the fire of the Spirit, so as to inflame the hearts of the faithful who regularly take part in community worship and gather on the Lord’s day to be nourished by his word and by the bread of eternal life”. In this category we can also include those members of faithful who preserve a deep and sincere faith, expressing it in different ways, but seldom taking part in worship. Ordinary pastoral ministry seeks to help believers to grow spiritually so that they can respond to God’s love ever more fully in their lives.

A second area is that of “the baptized whose lives do not reflect the demands of Baptism”, who lack a meaningful relationship to the Church and no longer experience the consolation born of faith. The Church, in her maternal concern, tries to help them experience a conversion which will restore the joy of faith to their hearts and inspire a commitment to the Gospel.

Lastly, we cannot forget that evangelization is first and foremost about preaching the Gospel to those who do not know Jesus Christ or who have always rejected him. Many of them are quietly seeking God, led by a yearning to see his face, even in countries of ancient Christian tradition. All of them have a right to receive the Gospel. Christians have the duty to proclaim the Gospel without excluding anyone. Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but “by attraction”.

15. John Paul II asked us to recognize that “there must be no lessening of the impetus to preach the Gospel” to those who are far from Christ, “because this is the first task of the Church”. Indeed, “today missionary activity still represents the greatest challenge for the Church” and “the missionary task must remain foremost”. What would happen if we were to take these words seriously? We would realize that missionary outreach is paradigmatic for all the Church’s activity. Along these lines the Latin American bishops stated that we “cannot passively and calmly wait in our church buildings”; we need to move “from a pastoral ministry of mere conservation to a decidedly missionary pastoral ministry”. This task continues to be a source of immense joy for the Church: “Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance” (Lk 15:7).