St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop, (1621)
St. John the Silent, Abbot, (558)
St. Mucius, Priest and Martyr, (304)
Chrystus Zmartwychwstał
Prawdziwie zmartwychwstał!
Christ is risen
Truly He is risen! Alleluia
Because there arose no little dissension and debate
A strangle quote from scripture to say the least. But hey, it’s Mother’s Day and doesn’t that line just about capture the essence of what mom is all about.
Deacon, are you saying that mom is about dissension and debate?
Let me explain.
The Judiazers showed up in Antioch and the surrounding areas and immediately went to work upsetting the apple cart. The people of Antioch, especially the gentile converts, were being told to do all sorts of unimaginable things. They had to go and get circumcised, they had to stop eating the foods they liked, they had to follow all sorts of rules and regulations about work, hand washing, etc. The house got a little crazy.
Moms, you know how that goes. Your husband has a bad day at work, your children are frustrated with school, the television, iPod, video games, Internet, and radio are delivering all sorts of messages to your loved ones, telling them how they should act and what they should do. Maybe they even go so far as to develop ideas about how you should act, about who you should be.
So the community got together with their leaders, the ones who were speaking truth, that is, Paul and Barnabas, and they decided to get the final word. Paul and Barnabas traveled to Jerusalem. The Church convened an Ecumenical Council, the first ever, and decided the question. The Judiazers were wrong and the people received true direction.
Moms, when you see things going wrong you speak with your husband and children. You turn off the TV, the radio, and limit the video games, Internet, and iPod downloads. You call a family council and you lead the family in working things out. You set the ground rules and you indicate the way to go. Your family knows that it can come to you for advice, guidance, and love.
The Holy Church, sometimes referred to as Holy Mother Church and moms have a lot in common. Not only do they have a lot in common, but what they have springs from the same place —“ the love of God.
They both have the same mission, entrusted to them by Jesus Christ. I am the way. Show my people the way.
The vision of the life to come, which John cracks open for us, gives us this picture:
I saw no temple in the city
for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb.
The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God gave it light,
and its lamp was the Lamb.
The vision is the reality, namely God dwells in the midst of His people; the Son of God, Jesus Christ, is the light among us.
That, my friends, is the present reality and the life to come.
All of us dwell in that reality and that hope. Moms especially carry that reality forward. Their vocation, however it should come to them, reflects that light and passes it on.
Moms, in their cooperation with the Holy Church, and in their vocation, stand as a bulwark against the fits of the world, against the Judiazers, the hypocrites, against all the messages that say: —Do as you please, do as we say, live today, for tomorrow we die.—
Moms have heard the message and have accepted the mission. They know that life is not just the here and now, the fads that fade, the influences that are like the grass that withers, the flowers that fade.
Moms believe in what Jesus said:
Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
When the messages of dissension and debate come, they, faithful as they are to Christ’s message and mission, live and teach the promise given to all Christians, the message that is in the best interest of those they love.
—Whoever loves me will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.”
Moms, grandmothers, godmothers, may our Lord ever bless you and enrich you in the graces needed to live out your vocation, to carry forth the message of Christ, and to be His missionary and messenger, standing for good and right against the sins of the world. May our mother Mary watch over, pray, and intercede for you.
Amen.
Saints Nereus, Achilleus, and Domitillia, Martyrs, (1st century)
St. Pancras, Martyr, (304)
St. Epiphanius of Salamis, Bishop, (403)
St. Ansfrid of Utrecht, Bishop, (1010)
St. Walter, Abbot, (1070)
St. Mamertus of Vienna, Bishop, (475)
From France24: Polish monks to open chain of hellishly good food shops
Unfaithful and angelic Poles will soon be able to buy jam made for their vice or virtue when the Benedictine monks of Tyniec open a chain of shops selling hellishly good food.
“We plan to open more than 100 franchise outlets. Sixty of them will be opened before the end of the year,” Father Zygmunt Galoch, who is in charge of the monks’ commercial affairs, told AFP.
Pear and apple “angelic jam”, zesty lemon “unfaithful jam”, and even cinnamon, raisin and apricot “prayer book jam” are already available online.
The new chain of shops will also sell cheeses, herbal teas, fruit syrups, prepared meat products and alcoholic beverages, all sold under the “Benedictine Products” label.
All the products are organic and produced either by the monks or by small family businesses located, like the monastery, near the southern Polish city of Krakow, Father Zygmunt said.
Franchisees will help to fund the monks’ plans to go forth and multiply the number of shops selling their heavenly foods.
The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (Polski Instytut Naukowy w Ameryce) in cooperation with The National Polish Center (The American Center of Polish Culture) cordially invites you to its 65th Annual Meeting to be held at Georgetown University’s Inter-Cultural Center, Washington, DC 20057 on Friday, June 15, and Saturday, June 16, 2007
This national multi-disciplinary conference on Polish and Polish American studies is sponsored by PIASA (208 East 30th St., New York, N.Y. 10016) in cooperation with The National Polish Center (2025 “O” St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036). All persons attending the conference, including panelists and presenters, are required to register and pay a registration fee.
Advance registration by mail is strongly recommended on forms provided. These forms can be found at the PIASA website.
Affordable housing is available on the campus of Georgetown University in newly renovated Village C Residence Hall. All rooms include private baths. Reservations with full payments can only be made directly with the Polish Institute by May 24, 2007.
The final detailed official program with full titles of presentations, room assignments and schedule will be printed later and distributed at the Annual Meeting. It will also appear on PIASA’s website as it becomes available. The following is an incomplete list of sessions and panels that will make up the 65th Annual meeting program. The final version of the program will include additions and some corrections.
PLENARY AND CONCURRENT SESSIONS AND PANELS
1. Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic: Getting Away From the Past
Piotr S. Wandycz, Yale University; Stephen Szabo, Johns Hopkins University; Frank Hadler, Leipzig University; Igor Lukes, Boston University, TBA: Diplomats from the German, Polish and Czech Embassies in Washington, D.C.
2. Perspectives on Polish Literature: The Ghost of Shakespeare, Kresy, Tatra Mountains and the New World
Michael J. Mikos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Columbia University; Anna Gasienica Byrcyn, University of Illinois at Chicago; George Gasyna, University of Illinois at Chicago.
3. Rethinking Poles and Jews
Robert Cherry, Brooklyn College CUNY; Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University; Shana Penn, Taube Foundation; Carolyn Slutsky, The Jewish Week; Charles Chotkowski, Polish American Congress.
4. Reshaping the Landscape: Polish Contemporary Theatre
Co-sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute with video taped excerpts from Wojcieszek’s theatrical productions. Krystyna Lipinska Illakowicz, New York University; Agata Grenda, Polish Cultural Institute; Przemyslaw Wojcieszek, Independent Film and Theatre Director from Poland.
5. New Directions in Polish Music: Preservation, Reaction and Reception
Anne Swartz, Baruch College & Graduate Center CUNY; Luke Howard, Brigham Young University; Anna Gasienica Byrcyn, University of Illinois at Chicago.
6. Polish Cinema
M. Marek Haltof, Northern Michigan University; John M. Grondelski, independent scholar, Washington, D.C.; Sheila Skaff, University of Texas at El Paso.
7. Polish American Texts: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry
Grazyna J. Kozaczka, Cazenovia College, NY; Thomas J. Napierkowski, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Czeslaw Karkowski, Nowy Dziennik, NY.
8. Economics, Politics, Society in Contemporary Poland
Jan Napoleon Saykiewicz, Duquesne University; Lucja Swiatkowska Cannon, Center of Strategic and International Studies; Richard J. Hunter, Seton Hall University; Susanne Lotarski, Polish American Congress, Washington Metropolitan Area Division; Krzystof Bledowski, Manufacturers Alliance; and Edward Basinski, Embassy of the Republic of Poland.
9. The United States and Solidarnosc
Idesbad Goddeeris, University of Leuven, Belgium; Jakub Grygiel, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; Gregory Domber, Indiana University REEI; and Donald Pienkos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
10. Exploring the Culture of American Polonia
James S. Pula, Purdue University; Thomas J. Napierkowski, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College CUNY; and Geraldine Coleman, Loyola Academy, Chicago.
11. John Paul II the Great
Barbara Miller, Polish Women’s Alliance of America; Dennis Martin, Loyola University of Chicago; Francis Borkowski, Appalachian State University, NC; and Margaret Ryznar, Polish Women’s Alliance of America.
12. The Kosciuszko Legacy in the Polish Airforce
Michael A. Peszke; Wakefield, RI; James S. Pula, Purdue University; Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University; Veterans of the Polish Air Force in-exile during World War II: Jan Koniarek, Kazimierz S. Rasiej and Jerzy Glowczewski.
13. Jamestown (Un) Remembered. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown
Angela Pienkos, PAHA and PIASA; Donald Pienkos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Deborah M. Majka, American Council for Polish Culture, and James S. Pula, Purdue University.
14. The Poetry of Anna Frajlich
Roundtable discussion combined with a poetry reading.
Regina Grol, Empire State College, SUNY; Anna Frajlich, Columbia University; Joanna Rostropowicz-Clark, Princeton Research Forum and Jaroslaw Anders, Washington, D.C.
15. Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa: A Peripatetic Polish Physician in 18th Century Istanbul
Paul W. Knoll, University of Southern California; Wladyslaw Roczniak, Bronx Community College CUNY; Lynn Lubamersky, Boise State University, Idaho.
16. Polish Peoples Republic 1945-1989
Anna Cienciala, University of Kansas; David T. Curp, Ohio University; Idesbad Goddeeris, University of Leuven, Belgium; and Ashby Crowder, Ohio University.
17. Newest Historical Research
Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Marek Payerhin, Lynchburg College, VA; Thaddeus V. Gromada, New Jersey City University.
18. Polish Saturday Schools and Polish Scouting: Their Impact on Polonia Case Studies, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Bozenna Buda, University of Maryland; John Armstrong, Department of State, and TBA.
19. First Navigation of Canyon Colca by Polish Explorers: 25 Years Later
Zygmunt Malinowski, John Wiley Publishers; Andrzej Pietowski, Bowling Green University, and Piotr Chmielinski, HP Environmental.
20. MDM: Marszalkowska Housing District, a Major Socialist Housing Project
A documentary film will be presented, followed by a roundtable discussion. Irena Tomaszewski, Canadian Foundation for Polish Studies; Eric Bednarski, National Film Board of Canada; Ella Chmielewska, University of Edinburgh and Bart Bonikowski, Princeton University.
Friday, June 15, 2007, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Reception hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland (2640 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20009) for registered participants and guests. ID and tickets required.
Saturday, June 16, 2007, 6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Pre-banquet reception (Cash Bar), South Gallery, Georgetown University Conference Hotel.
Saturday, June 16, 2007, 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Gala Banquet – Salons CHF, Georgetown University Conference Hotel (Events by
Marriott). Tickets required at $60.00. Reservations must be made in advance by June 2, 2007. Banquet speaker TBA.
Directions to Georgetown University as well as parking, campus map and other information will be posted at PIASA.
For more information regarding the program, registration, reservations, contact Dr. Thaddeus V. Gromada or Janina Kedron.
The 2007 Armenian Festival will be held at St. Peter Armenian Apostolic Church, 100 Troy-Schenectady Road, Watervliet, New York 12189 (Call 518-274-3673) on Sunday, June 10th from 12 noon to 6pm.
The festival features Armenian food, music, dance (including the Sipan Dance Group and the Armenian School Student’s Group), as well as all the normal festival fun for young and old.
If you’re in the Albany, Troy, or Schenectady area I encourage you to attend and support my Armenian friends. Stop by and say hello to Father Stepanos and Father Bedros, and save a few pastries for your local PNCC deacon.
By the way, the monk having trouble is Ansgar, as in St. Ansgar. Just wondering if the producers had that in mind when they created this. It is in Danish I think.
I think the whole thing is great, but what stood out for me was when Ansgar held up the scroll and stated that books are more time consuming…
Joseph Padewski, Bishop and Martyr, (1951)
St. Calepodius, Martyr, (222)
Saints Gordian and Epimachus, Martyrs, (250)
Bishop Joseph Padewski was born February 18, 1894 in Antoniów, a small farming village near Radom in Poland. He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and moved to Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit he came into contact with the Polish National Catholic Church. In 1916 he entered the PNCC Seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 16, 1919 by Prime Bishop Francis Hodur. He celebrated his first mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Plymouth, Pennsylvania.
In 1931 Father Padewski was sent to Poland as part of the PNCC mission of evangelization in Poland, and to work on consolidating the structures of the PNCC (PNKK) in Poland. He was appointed assistant to Bishop Leon Grochowski.
In January 1933 at a meeting of the Supreme Council of the PNCC in Poland attended by Bishop Hodur, Father Padewski was appointed administrator of the PNCC in Poland. At the Second Synod of the PNCC in Poland in April 1935 Father Padewski was elected Bishop. Father Padewski was elevated to the Episcopacy on August 26, 1936 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Before the Second World War the PNCC had 100,000 members, 52 parishes, 12 affiliate churches, and 52 priests in Poland.
On September 1, 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west and the Soviet Union invaded from the east. The losses to Poland and to the Church in Poland during the Nazi German and Soviet occupation were devastating. Over 6 million Poles died including 3 million Polish citizens of the Jewish faith. Many priests were sent to concentration camps. In all, 28% of PNCC priests were killed.
In part, Bishop Padewski was able to save the church from complete liquidation by bringing the church under the control of the Old Catholic Church’s Bishop in Bonn, Erwin Kreuzer.
In 1942 Bishop Padewski was arrested by the Nazis and was held at the Montelupich prison in Krakow. He was then transferred to the Tittmoning POW Camp in Germany where he was held for 18 months. Through the intervention of the Swiss Red Cross he was freed and returned to the United States in March 1944.
Between 1944 and 1946 Bishop Padewski served as pastor of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Czestochowa Parish in Albany, New York.
Bishop Padewski returned to Poland on February 20, 1946 to resume his duties as Bishop of the Polish branch of the PNCC.
Shortly after his return, the Soviet Union completed its takeover of Poland and asserted Communist control. In this atmosphere of Stalinist terror, Bishop Padewski was arrested by the Communist Secret Police (UB) in Warsaw and was held at their prison on Rakowieckiej Street.
Bishop Padewski died on May 10, 1951 as a result of secret police questioning and maltreatment.
St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, (390)
St. Pachomius, Abbot, (348)
St. Gerontius, Martyr, (501)