Check out Polish parishes? Why? and article by the Rev. Czesław M. Krysa, SLD, President of the WNY division of the Polish American Priests Association and a well known author, historian, and ethnographer.  It is the introduction to a series of article that appeared in Buffalo’s Am-Pol Eagle newspaper.

I especially like the disccussion points.

Each week of the Advent and Christmas season, this column will discuss one of the following Pol-Am faith VALUES, which make us as a community unique:

—¢ family as the domestic church
—¢ senior family member as tradition bearer
—¢ central role of the priest
—¢ memorial of the deceased
—¢ solicitude for the poor
—¢ meal as hospitality
—¢ solidarity with nature
—¢ language and music.