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From Christian Newswire: Brownback, Kudlow Help CFF Promote Adoption at Lincoln Center

Gala Benefit will help fund Pregnancy Resource Centers and Safe Haven Program in the Tri-State Area

Pro-life U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, and Larry Kudlow, CNBC host, will speak at the Children First Foundation’s “Gala Concert for Adoption” at Lincoln Center on Wednesday evening, April 11, 2007, at 6:30pm.

CFF’s “Gala Concert for Adoption” is part of a national effort to raise greater awareness about the important “Safe Haven Laws” that have been enacted in 47 states during the month of April so that, as stated by Tim Jaccard, “not one single baby is ever thrown in the garbage pail again.”

Senator Brownback, the Gala’s keynote speaker, is an adoptive parent and a congressional leader who understands the importance of promoting adoption, family values and a Culture of Life in our nation and the world. Larry Kudlow, the benefit’s emcee, is a renowned economist, host of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company” and a strong advocate of conservative values in the media.

The Children First Foundation’s “Gala Concert for Adoption” will begin at 6:30 pm with a New York Philharmonic performance of the Shostakovitch Violin Concerto No. 1 followed by a Post-Concert Reception on the Grand Promenade at 8:00 p.m. CFF will honor Tim and Aedan Jaccard of the AMT Children of Hope “Safe Haven” Program and six Pregnancy Centers located in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

“The Gala’s important goal,” says Dr. Elizabeth Rex, CFF’s President and Co-Founder, “is to help fund these outstanding organizations that generously provide desperate women with the financial and moral support they so often need in order to choose life and consider adoption for unwanted pregnancies or unwanted newborns.” Charles Rex, a CFF Director and Co-Founder, is a concert violinist with the New York Philharmonic and helped organize CFF’s festive fundraiser at Lincoln Center.

CFF’s Benefit Committee includes leaders of the New York State Right to Life Committee, the Connecticut Right to Life Committee, the New Jersey Family Policy Council and the Family Institute of Connecticut, organizations that support CFF’s efforts to promote Adoption and Safe Havens as positive, compassionate and life-saving choices that deserve greater public understanding, appreciation and support.

Benefit Tickets begin at $250 and must be purchased in advance. Please call the Children First Foundation toll-free at 1-877-386-3236. Donations are greatly appreciated and are tax-deductible.

Poland - Polish - Polonia,

Literary introduction

The Consulate General of Poland in New York invites you to the De Lamar Mansion Salon of Arts & Ideas, Thursday, March 29, 8pm, for the formal introduction of a new work of historical fiction JADWIGA’S CROSSING by Aloysius A. Lutz and Richard J. Lutz with Readings by co-author Richard J. Lutz.

Photo ID is required for admittance to the Consulate

233 Madison Avenue (at 37th Street), Manhattan, New York City, NY

Poland - Polish - Polonia,

Poland’s President to Open International Pro-Family Conference

From Christian Newswire:

Allan Carlson, founder and chairman of The World Congress of Families, announced today that Polish President Lech Kaczynski will give the opening address at World Congress of Families IV in Warsaw, May 11-13.

Poland’s president has also agreed to serve as Honorary Patron of the Congress, which is expected to bring more than 3,500 pro-family leaders, activists, scholars and parliamentarians to Warsaw in May.

Carlson expressed his delight with Kaczynski’s involvement. “We are honored to have President Kaczynski as the keynote speaker and Patron of the Congress,” Carlson declared. “His well-known commitment to the family is very much in keeping with the theme of World Congress of Families IV —“ Beyond Demographic Winter: The Natural Family and the Springtime for Nations.”

President Kaczynski has been critical of gay activism, recently noting that if the homosexual “approach to sexual life were to be promoted on a grand scale, the human race would disappear.”

Kaczynski has also expressed concern about falling birthrates across Europe and voiced strong support for religious values and the natural family.

Kaczynski assumed the office of President on December 23, 2005. In the 1970s, he was active in the Anti-Communist Workers’ Defense Committee, served as an advisor to the Solidarity movement, and later became an advisor to Poland’s first democratic president, Lech Walesa. In 2001, Kaczynski became Minister of Justice and was elected mayor of Warsaw in 2002. President Kaczynski is one of the founders of the governing Law and Justice Party.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of World Congress of Families. Past Congresses have been held in Prague (1997), Geneva (1999) and Mexico City (2004). The Mexico City Congress featured remarks by Martha Sahagun de Fox, then First Lady of Mexico.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, and leaders that seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the ‘seedbed’ of civil society. The WCF (with its headquarters in Rockford, IL) was founded by Allan Carlson, president of The Howard Center, in 1997. To date, there have been three World Congresses of Families —“ Prague (1997), Geneva (1999) and Mexico City (2004). WCF IV will be in Warsaw, Poland, May 11- 13, 2007.

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Helping

The folks at the Fellowship of St. James, the publishers of Touchstone, Salvo, and more are in need of our help.

I’ve been a Touchstone subscriber for a few years. What I love about the journal is the commonality of orthodox Christian witness found there.

For more info, check out the reasons beyond this request for help in the Mere Comments post This Is What We Need.

Please, find it in your heart to say a prayer and make a donation in support of FSJ’s worthy efforts. Make your donation here…

Thanks to Fr. Joseph Huneycutt of Orthodixie for pointing to this in Imagine [there’s no] Touchstone.

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Happy Pułaski Day

Kazimierz Pułaski, soldier, politician, freedom fighter, and father of American cavalry.

Kazimierz Pulaski

Pułaski Day will be observed in Illinois on March 5th this year.

Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem

When the dying flame of day
Through the chancel shot its ray,
Far the glimmering tapers shed
Faint light on the cowled head;
And the censer burning swung,
Where nere before the altar, hung
The crimson banner, that with prayer
Had been consecrated there.
And the nun’s sweet hymn was heard while,
Sung low, in the dim, mysterious aisle.

“Take thy banner, May it wave
Proudly oer the good and brave;
Wnen the battle’s distant wail
Breaks the Sabbath of our vale,
When the clarion’s music thrills
To the hearts of these lone hills,
When the spear in conflict shakes,
And the strong lance shivering breaks.

“Take thy banner! and, beneath
The battle-cloud’s encircling wreath,
Guard it, till our homes are free!
Guard it! God will prosper thee!
In the dark and trying hour,
In the breaking forth of power,
In the rush of steeds and men,
His right hand will shield thee then.

“Take thy banner! But when night
Closes round the ghastly flight, If the vanquished warrior
bow, Spare him! as thou wouldst be
spared! By our prayers and many tears, By the
mercy that endears, Spare him! he our love hath
shared! Spare him! as thou wouldst be spared

“Take thy banner! and if e’er
Thou shouldst press the soldier’s bier,
And the muffled drum should beat
To the tread of mournfulfeet,
Then this crimson flag shall be
Martial cloak and shroud for thee.”

The warrior took that banner proud,
And it was his martial cloak and shroud!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem entitled “Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem” was inspired by the fact that General Pułaski’s Legion is said to have marched into battle with a silk banner embroidered by Moravians in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Thaddeus Kościuszko and Black History Month

Thaddeus Kościuszko, the Polish engineering genius whose special skills helped George Washington win America’s War of Independence, became part of this year’s Black History Month observances.

At ceremonies held at the Presbyterian Church of St. Albans, the Polish American Congress presented a reproduction of General Kościuszko’s last will and testament to the United for Progress Democratic Club of Queens, New York.

Kosciuszko and Black History Month

Shown above are: (left to right) Chet Szarejko who heads the Political Activities Committee of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress; Essie Lowry, president of the Progress Club who holds the copy of Kosciuszko’s will; Henry Murphy, member of the club’s board and master of ceremonies; and Frank Milewski, president of the N.Y. Congress.

Before Kościuszko left the United States in 1798, he directed the executor of his will, Thomas Jefferson, to distribute all his property he was leaving behind for ‘purchasing’ black slaves and “giving them liberty in my name.”

In describing Kościuszko, Jefferson stated, “he is as pure a son of Liberty as I have ever known and of that liberty which is to go to all and not to the few or rich alone.”

The PAC’s Milewski was a guest speaker at the Black History Month commemoration. “Kościuszko is an example of the true Polish spirit,” he said.

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Polskie Pieśni i Tańce: Mazowsza

Premiera w Stanach Zjednoczonych 1-go marca, 2007

PIEŚNI I TAŁƒCE MAZOWSZA jest wspaniałym widowiskiem pełnym emocji, które elektryzuje znakomitym tańcem, żywymi barwami i pięknem obrazu. Niezrównany zespól MAZOWSZE zachwyci widza szalonym wirem, podskokiem, tempem, piosenka i muzyka. Sławi on kulturalny dobytek Polski tanecznym krokiem i przepiękna melodia. Bobby Vinton, śpiewak polskiego pochodzenia, jest narratorem programu.

Mimo tego, ze Mazowsze reprezentuje aż 39 rożnych regionów Polski w swoistym ludowym stylu, choreografia i układy muzyczne tego dynamicznego widowiska sięga poza widza polskiego pochodzenia. Zespól 65 tancerzy i śpiewaków występuję w niekończącej się serii przepięknych, autentycznych, ręcznie wykonanych ludowych strojów, jeden piękniejszy od drugiego. Jest ich w sumie 1000, i niektóre waza ponad 30 funtów, tym bardziej zadziwiając publiczność wyczynami tancerzy na scenie. Akompaniując zespołowi 23-osobowa orkiestra przygrywa ukochane od wieków przez Polaków piękne melodie ludowe w układach muzycznych sięgających od prostych przyśpiewek wiejskich do kompozycji Chopina. Fachowo umocowane kamery filmowe i mikrofony wysokiej jakości nagrały ten olśniewający koncert —na żywo— w Teatrze Wielkim w Warszawie.

Zespól Mazowsze występuję na arenie międzynarodowej jako ambasador Polskiej kultury. W ostatnich 50 latach zaliczył ponad 6000 koncertów naokoło świata. Założyciele Zespołu, aktorka/piosenkarka Mira Ziminska i dyrygent/kompozytor Tadeusz Sygientyński, po zniszczeniach drugiej Wojny Światowej, z ogromnym poświęceniem pracowali nad przechowaniem bogatej kultury pieśni i tańców polskich dla następnych pokoleń.

Program:

  • —Kołem, Kołem—
  • —Piekna Nasza Polska Cala—
  • Tramblanka Polka
  • Oberek
  • —Co Ja Myślę— —“ w strojach Kurpiowskich
  • Karnawał w Wilamowicach
  • Krakowiaczek
  • Krakowiak
  • Pieśni i Tańce z Jurgowa na Podhalu
  • Bamberki
  • Przyśpiewki i tańce z Podegrodzia
  • Winobranie w Lubuszu
  • Tańce Góralskie z wysokich Tatr
  • Żywiec —“ Taniec z Chusteczka i chodzony
  • —Cyt, Cyt— w strojach Łowickich
  • —Furman— solista: Stanisław Jopek
  • Tańce z Łowicza
  • Tańce Sannickie
  • Finale
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The Music & Dance of Poland: Mazowsze

THE MUSIC & DANCE OF POLAND: MAZOWSZE is a thrilling kaleidoscopic display of dazzling movement, vibrant color and stunning beauty. The incomparable Mazowsze (Mah-ZOV-sheh) performance troupe whirl and leap, stamp and glide in a glorious outpouring of sound and motion, rhythm and music that celebrates the cultural legacy of Poland. Polish-American entertainer Bobby Vinton narrates.

Mazowsze

While the choreography and musical arrangements represent 39 distinctive ethnographic regions of Poland with traditional performance styles, the appeal of Mazowsze’s dynamic stage show goes beyond audiences of Polish descent. An ensemble of 65 dancers and singers are arrayed in a seemingly never-ending series of handmade traditional costumes — more than 1,000 in total, one more dramatic and colorful than the next and some weighing as much as 30 lbs., making their energetic gravity-defying leaps, twirls and lifts even more impressive. A full 23-member orchestra performs music ranging from Chopin to simple folk melodies beloved by the Poles for centuries. Strategically mounted high definition cameras and microphones capture this stellar performance, recorded live at the Polish National Opera House in Warsaw, Poland.

Mazowsze is internationally recognized as Poland’s cultural ambassadors. In the last 50 years they have performed more than 6,000 shows in cities around the world. The troupe’s founders, singer/actress Mira Zimi ska and conductor/composer Tadeusz Sygietyski, dedicated themselves to preserve the rich music and dance traditions of Poland after the devastation of World War II.

Produced by WLIW New York. Executive Producer/Director: Roy A. Hammond. Producer/Editor: Roman Brygider. CC and ST.

TV Schedules as of 2/15/07

  • Alaska One —“ Saturday, 3/3 at 2:30 pm
  • Buffalo NY – WNED Wednesday, 3/7 at 7:30 pm
  • Chicago IL – WTTW Sunday, 3/11 at 6:30 pm
  • Cleveland OH – WVIZ Saturday, 3/10 at 5:30 pm
  • Denver CO – KRMA Sunday, 3/11 at 1 pm
  • Johnstown PA – WPSU Saturday, 3/17 at 11:30 am
  • Los Angeles CA – KCET Sunday, 3/11 at 1:30 pm
  • Minneapolis MN – TPT2 Saturday, 3/3 at 4:30 pm
  • Nebraska Network – Sunday, 3/18 at 2 pm
  • New York tri-state area —“ WLIW21 Thursday, 3/1 at 8 pm
  • Pittsburgh PA – WQED Tuesday, 3/20 at 8 pm
  • San Antonio TX – KLRN Sunday, 3/18 at 4:30pm
  • San Francisco CA – KRCB Monday, 3/5 at 7 pm
  • Seattle WA – KBTC Wednesday, 3/7 at 9 pm
  • Springfield MA – WGBY Monday, 3/5 at 9 pm

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