St. Boniface
An English monk who walked away from a quiet life of books to spend forty years preaching in the German forests — felling a god's oak with an axe, building a church across half a continent, and dying with a book raised over his head.
Reflect on St. Boniface
Boniface spent his whole life refusing the easier road — and his courage is a quiet question to anyone who would rather keep the peace than keep the faith.
Reflection Questions
- 1
Boniface wrote that the Church is a ship we must not abandon but keep on her course. In plain words, what do you think he was asking of himself and his fellow shepherds?
- 2
Where in your own life are you most tempted to 'abandon ship' — to give up or go quiet — when staying the course gets hard?
- 3
What is one right but difficult thing you could stand fast in this week, even if it would be easier to look away?
