St. Boniface's bells are ringing again

Bells at a glance:
St. Boniface, at more than 3,000 pounds, is the largest bell, situated in the north tower. The south tower's bells, named St. Mary and St. Joseph, weigh more than 1,000 pounds each.

Those bells were blessed at the Thanksgiving Mass, attended by more than 60 people from St. Boniface's nearly 200 households, and began to sound once again. [after being repaired]

No one knows just when the bells fell silent. Gray estimates it was at least 10 to 15 years ago. Declining attendance and parish finances put fixing the bells low on the list of parish projects.

St. Boniface church in the Carondelet neighborhood is one of 30 Catholic churches in the area that the St. Louis Archdiocese may close because of shifts in population and a lack of priests. But on Thanksgiving, the congregation got a temporary reprieve from uncertainty and fear. Joy and hope were in the air.

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