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New blog post: Daily Digest for October 12th http://bit.ly/7ufit [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Daily Digest for October 13th http://bit.ly/PDjZq [deacon_jim]
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I’d buy you, Wisdom, with all of the world’s gold
-But is there any truth in what we’re told
About your power to purge our human thought
Of all its dread, and raise up the distraught
Spirit to heaven, to the highest sphere
Where angels dwell beyond distress and fear?
You see mere trifles in all human things;
Mourning and mirth are two extended wings
On which you bring us equanimity,
Yourself unmoved by Death, calm, changeless, free.
For you, the rich man is the one who owns
No more than what’s enough ? no precious stones,
Or land, or rents; you see through to the truth,
The misery beneath the gilded roof;
But if poor people heed your sober voice,
You do not grudge the poor their simple joys.
To think that I have spent my life in one
Long climb towards your threshold! All delusion!
Wisdom for me was castles in the air;
I’m hurled, like all the rest, from the topmost stair.
Translated by Seamus Heaney
Kupić by cię, mądrości, za drogie pieniądze,
Która (jesli prawdziwie mienią) wszytki żądze,
Wszytki ludzkie frasunki umiesz wykorzenić,
A człowieka tylko nie w anioła odmienić,
Który nie wie, co boleść, frasunku nie czuje,
Złym przygodam nie podległ, strachom nie hołduje.
Ty wszytki rzeczy ludzkie masz za fraszkę sobie,
Jednaką myśl tak w szcześciu, jako i w żałobie
Zawżdy niesiesz; ty śmierci namniej sie nie boisz,
Bezpieczną, nieodmienną, niepożytą stoisz.
Ty bogactwa nie złotem, nie skarby wielkiemi,
Ale dosytem mierzysz i przyrodzonemi
Potrzebami; ty okiem swym nieuchronionym
Nędznika upatrujesz pod dachem złoconym,
A uboższym nie zajźrzysz szcześliwego mienia,
Kto by jedno chciał słuchać twego upomnienia.
Nieszcześliwy ja człowiek, którym lata swoje
Na tym strawił, żebych był ujźrzał progi twoje.
Terazem nagle z stopniów ostatnich zrzucony
I miedzy insze, jeden z wiela, policzony.
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New blog post: Daily Digest for October 12th http://bit.ly/7ufit [deacon_jim]
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It’s hard not to love but in love to stay
Poor solace, when our thoughts seduced by lust
Sugarcoat to excess those things which must
Undergo changes and suffer decay.Who will obtain enough satisfaction
From gold, scepter, fame, pleasure, charming face
So that in his heart they would fill much space
And from all fears he would find protection?Love is the right course of our life on earth,
But our body, made of the elements,
Praising what it knows had a feeble birth,Deceives the soul, which ne’er finds sufficience,
When You, eternal and true perfection,
It doesn’t see, the aim of its affection.O holy Lord, grant us, let us have, too,
What you command, and return it to you.
Translated by Michal J. Mikos
I nie miłować ciężko, i miłować
Nędzna pociecha, gdy żądzą zwiedzione
Myśli cukrują nazbyt rzeczy one,
Które i mienić, i muszą się psować.Komu tak będzie dostatkiem smakować
Złoto, sceptr, sława, rozkosz i stworzone
Piękne oblicze, by tym nasycone
I mógł mieć serce i trwóg się warować?Miłość jest własny bieg bycia naszego;
Ale z żywiołów utworzone ciało,
To chwaląc, co zna początku równego,Zawodzi duszę, której wszystko mało,
Gdy ciebie, wiecznej i prawej piękności,
Samej nie widzi, celu swej miłości.
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New blog post: Daily Digest for October 10th http://bit.ly/Ev8c2 [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 7 – Rosary of Life by Rev. Alojzy Henel http://bit.ly/WEpEy [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 3 – The Jesus of Nonbelievers by Rev. Jan Twardowski http://bit.ly/I9vYy [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 5 – When you say by Rev. Jan Twardowski http://bit.ly/xobF1 [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 6 – The Charge by Ernest Bryll http://bit.ly/2bqvhs [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 8 – Untitled by Halina Poświatowska http://bit.ly/3B2vlk [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 9 – Ariadne’s thread by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska http://bit.ly/Fs0oV [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Daily Digest for October 11th http://bit.ly/4lwFSU [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 10 – From a journey by Urszula Kozioł http://bit.ly/y99vw [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: October 11 – The State of… by Wioletta Sadurek http://bit.ly/NfqkE [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Bringing the sheep down… http://bit.ly/9K326 [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Polish Legacy Project Conference Report http://bit.ly/dwR54 [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Congratulations Dominic Costantino http://bit.ly/3tSzDH [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: What 500 dedicated people can do http://bit.ly/CazTv [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Corrections… https://www.konicki.com/2009/10/11/corrections/ [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Ś + P Kazimierz Pulaski http://bit.ly/2Q0dn6 [deacon_jim]
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New blog post: Quincentenary of Calvin http://bit.ly/1aY6xA [deacon_jim]
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Shared 5 links.
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To mark the occasion an interesting blog type website called Calvin 500.
Of course we know the issues here, reform was necessary, but it became more than reform. Reform without infallibility in faith, doctrine, and morals becomes just another human invention, subject to change and whim. The pitfalls of fashioning a religion where everyone decides for themselves on matters of faith, doctrine, and morals plagues us to this day, and even the Reformed Church in America is struggling with changing belief patterns enlightened by current fashion.
I am not saying is that each person cannot decide for themselves. Indeed, each person must make their own decision for, against or indifferent to Christ’s Gospel. Rather I posit that when a person does decide for Christ, when they are regenerated, their regenerated lives can best be fulfilled in a path with clearly defined guideposts, guideposts only the infallible Catholic Church can adequately provide.
On this date in 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pułaski, fighting for American independence, died two days after being mortally wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah.
to the [Roman] Catholic Answers Forum on the subject of the PNCC.
I do not post in forums, learned my lessons in that regard long long ago. To break this down and to correct a few of the misleading statements posted there:
- The Roman Church considers the PNCC to be schismatic, not heretical (for those who care about such things. 99.9% of PNCC members don’t — they don’t even think about it).
- The PNCC has not changed its name — it is still the Polish National Catholic Church (no you don’t have to be Polish to join™).
- The PNCC does indeed allow its priests to marry. We do not see marriage as an impediment to the priesthood or priesthood as an impediment to marriage.
- As with any Church we hold talks with the Roman Church. That doesn’t mean reconciliation is immanent. Just like Orthodoxy, that won’t happen unless Rome changes its view of the papacy.
From the Buffalo News: With spotlight on past and future, exhibit celebrates parish’s faith
Dozens of supporters of Corpus Christi Catholic Church turned out Thursday for a special look at an exhibit that celebrates the East Side church’s past and future.
The exhibit, housed in Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum on Porter Avenue, coincides with the successful completion of the parish’s $1 million preservation fund campaign.
—In a time of crisis, over the past four years, we were able to raise $1 million, which is extraordinary for a church on the East Side where you don’t really have too many people,— said the Rev. Anzelm Chalupka, pastor of Corpus Christi.
—Today’s event is thankfulness from us to the people who donated money towards this campaign.—
At its height, the overwhelmingly Polish-American parish had more than 10,000 members and is now down to about 500 very dedicated parishioners —” about 2 percent from the neighborhood and the rest who travel long distances to attend Mass, Chalupka said…
I applaud the work of the Pauline Fathers at Corpus Christi. You don’t need a big suburban parish of 10,000 well healed people to be successful, you need strong hands and strong hearts. What our forefathers did can still be done. May their work be blessed.

From the Times Leader: Dominick Costantino was recently welcomed as the new organist by the Rev. Paul Felip, pastor, and the Parish Committee of Good Shepherd Polish National Catholic Church, 269 E. Main St. Plymouth. Costantino, son of Dominick and Bonnie Costantino of Hanover Township, is a senior at Hanover Area High School.