[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] Before going into battle a Polish knight would have sung the oldest hymn in the Polish language: the Bogurodzica. This custom of singing to the Blessed Virgin Mary before waging war, while strange to modern ears, reminds us that we must turn to the Blessed Mother in all the struggles of life. Our Lady of Victory […]
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] This Sunday, October 5th, the Church celebrates the feast day of Saint Faustina Kowalska. She was a saint dearly beloved by John Paul II and one which he deliberately chose to be the first saint of the new millennium. It was both her Christian witness and the profound message she received from God
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] Since 1981, Americans of Polish descent have been celebrating a month every year that commemorates their Polish heritage. Almost every president has recognized this special month and have given messages urging everyone to participate in this great opportunity. It started out every August, but then switched over to October and has stayed that month
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Saint John Paul II declared only one “Doctor of the Church” during his twenty-six year pontificate. He canonized a total of 480 men and women and yet he only held up one saint as a prime example of holiness and teaching. That saint was not an accomplished academic or high-ranking ecclesiastic. Instead, it was the “Little
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] This Sunday (Sept. 28th) we celebrate the feast day of Saint Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia. Even though Wenceslaus was a nobleman of a neighboring kingdom, he has still been considered one of the several patron saints of Poland for many centuries. In fact, the veneration of Saint Wenceslaus in Poland is most likely due to the
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] From August to October farmers across Poland (and elsewhere) are busily reaping the fruits of their labor. For any farmer harvest time is a hectic time of the year, but it is also the most rewarding. It is a time when they are able to see the results of their long days on the
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] “[A]t the end of the [Second Vatican] Council the Fathers addressed a greeting and an appeal to artists: ‘This world—they said—in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time,
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