Here at St. Boniface Parish, our goal is to create an atmosphere that says, “You’re in God’s house now and you’re here to be with Him, worshipping, praying, and giving thanks.” Singing and hearing hymns, melodies, chanted responses, the power or subtlety of the organ, or a solo cantor’s voice filling the space with the sung Word - all these elements work together to draw us into the mystery of that other world, which is eternal and timeless, like God Himself.

The bedrock of the music program at St. Boniface Parish is two-fold: the magnificent pipe organ, played by accomplished organist Scott Kemmer, and the St. Michael Hymnal, produced and published by our own parish.

We have been blessed by forty years of the gradual building of a music program whose goal is and has always been to unite the congregation in giving worthy praise to the Holy Trinity in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

This work of praising God through song is done primarily by volunteers who are passionate about Catholic music and who are dedicated to enriching our liturgy through and by their talents.  For more information, please contact Mary Schnerre at 765-404-1728.

St. Boniface Schola Cantorum

The Schola Cantorum sings at the 9:30 Mass on a varying schedule, and also for the Feast of Christ the King, for Midnight Mass, for the Sacred Triduum, and Corpus Christi.

St. Boniface Chant Choirs

Gregorian chant is a collection of sung Latin prayers and scripture; and Gregorian melodies have universally and historically been the signature sound of the Roman Catholic Church.  These chants have been a part of Catholic worship for centuries, and they unite Catholics all over the world. They are the words and melodies that the saints we read about, grew up hearing and singing their whole lives.  

Gregorian chant is named after Pope St. Gregory the Great (590 - 604 AD), not because he wrote the chants, but because he organized them and began gathering them into the collection of chants that is still used throughout the Catholic world.

Our men’s and women’s Gregorian chant choirs sing during Advent and Lent, and on various high Liturgical feasts of the year. They typically sing the Entrance and Communion chants - in conjunction with our organ and cantor. We are currently introducing the beautiful Charles Thatcher chants which were commissioned for and included in the fifth edition of the St. Michael Hymnal.

Sung Vespers

For the past twenty years, our parish has offered sung Vespers on Sunday nights of Advent and Lent. These prayerful meditations with organ and cantor, and often with violin, cello, oboe, and other instruments, have been moments of grace, not only for our own parishioners, but also for the many visitors from other parishes and indeed, often from non-Catholic visitors as well.