Month: November 2009

Poetry

November 19 – Hymn by Józef Baka

My love, dearest love,
My love, dearest love,
Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph.

My hope and assurance,
My hope and assurance,
Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
[Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph.]

My fortune forever in heaven,
My fortune forever in heaven,
Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
[Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph.]

Honor and glory in life, in death,
Honor and glory in life, in death,
Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
[Jesus, Jesus, Mary, Joseph.]

Translation by Dcn. Jim

Holy Family

Miłość moja, miłość serdeczna,
Miłość moja, miłość serdeczna,
Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef,
Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef.

Nadzieja moja beśpieczna,
Nadzieja moja beśpieczna,
Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef,
[Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef.]

Fortuna moja w niebie wieczna,
Fortuna moja w niebie wieczna,
Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef,
[Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef.]

Honor i sława w życiu, przy śmierci,
Honor i sława w życiu, przy śmierci,
Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef,
[Jezus, Jezus, Maryja, Józef.]

Current Events, ,

CommonGround 2010

CommonGround is the annual New York State arts-in-education conference that brings over 150 administrators, teachers, teaching artists, and community members together for three days of policy setting, planning, exchange of skills and inspirational speakers. This gathering contributes to fresh curriculum design, school reform and new models for classroom learning.

This year the NYS Alliance for Arts Education will be serving as the lead organizer of the conference, working in collaboration with Partners for Arts Education and the Empire State Partnerships, the NYS Department of Education, the BOCES Arts in Education Network, the Association of Teaching Artists, and the Capital Region BOCES. The 2010 conference will be held from March 24-26 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, NY.

The Conference organizers are currently seeking proposals for workshops. Guidelines are located at the conference website.

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New Direction Band

Four former members of the City Side Band, Jim Raczkowski, Ron Urbanczyk, Bob Krupka and Gene Rzezenik have joined together with Bruce Nowak (sax and clarinet) to form the New Direction Band.

The Band will make its debut performance on December 5th for the fifth annual Euro-American Holiday Dance at Club Loreli in Hanburg, NY with the Auslanders.

Following on their openning gig, the Band will be featured at Kolędy Night at the Potts Banquet Hall on Saturday, December 19th. This event will benefit the Response to Love Center and will feature the St. John Kanty Choir under the direction of Larry Maguda.. Sister’s Johnice, Catherine and Rose will also be featured leading the Polish and American Christmas Carol Sing-A-Long.

On New Years Eve the New Direction Band will be setting the mood at the Matthew Glab Post Party in Lackawanna, NY.

In addition to our new name, new music and new musicians, the Band will be presenting the Stas and Stella’s Mostly Traditional Polish Wedding at dinner theatres throughout 2010 with some new skits and music. The next show is scheduled at the Lancaster Opera House on April 8th and on April 9th at Ripa’s Restaurant on Walden Avenue in Lancaster.

Poetry

November 18 – Pares ab Adam by Wespazjan Kochowski

When Eve was created distaff extension of Adam, and Adam dug the earth,
Who among them was noble and who of peasant birth?
True, Adam is our father, Eve is our mother,
We all are their children, and each of us a brother.

Translation by Dcn Jim

Gdy Ewa kądziel przędła, Adam ziemię kopał,
Kto tam był szlachcic wtenczas i kto komu chłopał?
Tak Adam gdy nam ojcem, Ewa gdy nam macią,
Wszyscyśmy sobie równą z tych rodziców bracią.

Poland - Polish - Polonia, ,

Ania and Piotr Filochowski in concert this Sunday

From the Kosciuszko Foundation: Ania and Piotr Filochowski, violinists accompanied by Charity Wicks, pianist in concert at The Kosciuszko Foundation:

Ania and Piotr Filochowski, violinists accompanied by Charity Wicks, pianist will perform a program of works by Brahms, Chopin, Paganini, and Wieniawski on Sunday, November 22, 2009, 3 P.M. at The Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 East 65th Street (between Madison & 5th Avenues), New York City, NY 10065

Ania and Piotr Filochowski are award-winning violinists and international soloists originally from Poland. They have studied with today’s greatest masters of the violin at The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music. Their mentors are world-renowned artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Midori, Ruggiero Ricci, and Aaron Rosand. All their past concerts were received with great enthusiasm and acclaim, as was their concert featured on PBS, so do not miss the chance to hear the remarkable sibling violinists in their only New York City recital this fall! The program will feature some of the greatest hits for the violin, as well as other beautiful and fun works. It will surely be a concert to remember!

Admission: $20 Tickets available at the door.

For reservations call the Foundation Office at 212.734.2130 or contact the Foundation by E-mail.

Christian Witness, PNCC

Holy Trinity Parish (Woodlawn, NY) Consecrated

From the Am-Pol Eagle: Blessing a New Church (about half way down the page):

Bishop Thaddeus Peplowski, bishop of Buffalo/Pittsburgh Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church marked a sign of the cross on the door as part of the blessing ceremony at the new Holy Trinity Church in Woodlawn. The bishop then handed the parish documents and keys to Edward Puchalski, the chairman of the parish committee, and to Fr. Gary Spencer, pastor of the parish. Bishop Peplowski also blessed and anointed the walls of the church, the altar and tabernacle with holy chrism, holy water and incense…

Photos of the event can be found here…

Poetry

November 17 – Psalm XXVIII by Wespazjan Kochowski

Dilexi quoniam exaudiet Dominus

Thanks for Homely Benefits

A granted request

1 I have loved that the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping
And He hath not turned away His face from the begging one.
2 And He hath inclined His ear unto me
And having accepted a supplication of the humble one He gave what I had asked for.

A tragedy and a consolation

3 For troubles compassed me from all sides
And for a hard heartache I had not measure in sorrow.
4 When the half of my soul was deprived of me
And all decorations of life and fortunes fell down from my head.
5 I knew not in that adventure, where to turn unto
And for confusion of the internal senses I forgot about a medicine from the heaven.
6 Until a good friend shall say unto me some time:
Trust the Lord in thy wanting and He shall console thee.
7 I only thought, gasped and told and at once help from the heaven
For our God is good and the Lord is very pitiful.

Beneficent God

8 His generous hand granteth benefits unto unworthy and thankless ones
And also often unto unaware ones.
9 The human wanteth not to give or knoweth not how or feareth becoming poor because of a gift;
But God, as a sea, filleth both small and big rivers with waters of countless graces.
10 Wonderful generosity of this Lord that giveth so much, having everything
And having given so much He gave also in addition Himself unto people for salvation!

The grace which I have received

11 I have received, I confess: I humiliated myself and the Lord made me well
Not looking at my vileness, that I am unworthy, but at His omnipotence, that He is beneficent.
12 For He, having thrown off a garb of heartache, dressed me up with a wedding coat
And making up for the loss, He dried my ears from weeping.
13 Giving me a similar rescue, He gave a brake and restoration in the fall
And this way He teared my soul out of death.
14 Dispensing the grace for supporting in the adventure,
He gave a footing for the legs against a mistake that should abuse the eternal majesty.
15 Therefore I thank the Lord for this grace with a low bow;
I thank for making up for the loss and I stay in certain hope that I shall be liked by Him in the land of the living as well.
16 Glory unto the Father and unto the Son and unto the Holy Spirit;
As it was in the beginning, so it is now and it shall be forever and in the ages of ages. Amen.

From the translator’s website of Psalms by Kochowski

Dilexi quoniam exaudiet Dominus

Za domowe dobrodziejstwa dzięka

Wysłuchana prośba

1 Ukochałem, iż wysłuchał Pan głos płaczu mego
I nie odwrócił oblicza Swego przed żebrzącym.
2 I nakłonił ucha Swego ku mnie,
A suplikę uniżonego miłościwie przyjąwszy, dał, o com Go pokornie żądał.

Dramat i pocieszenie

3 Albowiem ogarnęły mię były zewsząd dolegliwości,
A dla ciężkiego utrapienia w żalu miary nie miałem.
4 Gdy mi odjęta była połowica dusze mojej
I wszystkie ozdoby życia i fortun z głowy mojej spadły.
5 Nie wiedziałem w takiej przygodzie, gdzie się obrócić,
A przez zamięszanie zmysłów wnętrznych zapomniałem o lekarstwie z nieba.
6 Aż ci mi kiedy niekiedy dobry przyjaciel powie:
Zdaj na Pana żądanie Twoje, a On cię pocieszy.
7 Jenom pomyślił, westchnął i wymówił, aż zaraz z nieba pomoc,
Gdyż Bóg nasz dobry i Pan wielce litościwy.

Dobroczynny Bóg

8 Szczodra ręka Jego sypie dobrodziejstwa na niegodnych i niewdzięcznych,
A często i na niewiadomych.
9 Nie chce dać człowiek albo nie umie albo się datkiem zubożyć boi;
Bóg zaś, jako morze, i małe, i wielkie rzeki napełnia wodami łask nieprzebranych.
10 Dziwna tego Pana szczodroto! Który mając wszytko, tak siłę daje,
A dawszy siłę i sam się dał ludziom na zbawienie w przydatku.

فaska, której doznałem

11 Doznałem, wyznawam: uniżełem się, a Pan mi dobrze uczynił,
Nie patrzając na podłość moję, żem niegodny, ale na wszechmocność Swoję, iże jest dobroczynny.
12 Bo zrzuciwszy ze mnie wór utrapienia, odział mnie płaszczem weselnym
I nagrodziwszy stratę, osuszył oczy moje od płaczu.
13 Dawszy mi ratunek podobny, dał hamulec w upadku i podźwignienie,
A tak wyrwał duszę moję od śmierci.
14 Udzieliwszy łaskę do podparcia w przygodzie,
Dał warunek nogom od usterku, majestat wieczny obrażającego.
15 Za tę tedy łaskę Panu z niskim upadnieniem dziękuję;
Dziękuję za nagrodę utraty, a oraz i w pewnej nadziei zostaję, że Mu się podobać będę w krainie żyjących.
16 Chwała Ojcu i Synowi i Duchowi Świętemu;
Jako była na początku, tak i teraz i zawsze i na wieki wieków. Amen.