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New blogroll addition

I’ve added Philorthodox to my blogroll (thanks to the Young Fogey)

Per their masthead:

This site is dedicated to the traditional Anglican expression of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We profess the orthodox Christian Faith enshrined in the three great Creeds and the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the ancient undivided Church. We celebrate the Seven Sacraments of the historic Church. We cherish and continue the Catholic Revival inaugurated by the Tractarian or Oxford Movement. Definitely not ‘tepid centrist Anglicanism!…’

Father Chandler Holder Jones, SSC who runs the blog has written some on the PNCC and has an interest in the Old Catholic/Independent Catholic movement.

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Today’s interesting, funny, and the power of mom

Browsing some of my favorite blogs today I ran across the following:

From A Conservative Blog for Peace: Rod Dreher considers a crunchy-traditionalist option – Rod Dreher is editor of the Sunday commentary section of The Dallas Morning News, and author of “Crunchy Cons” (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. Born and raised a Methodist in south Louisiana, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1993. He has written for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal on religious issues.

Mr. Dreher and his family are in the process of a lot of soul searching in regard to Roman Catholicism. They need prayers for this difficult journey. They also need a lot less of the snarky criticism that some R.C. commentators just love to engage in. Read about his search and his reasons it in his own words.

I wholeheartedly agree with the motivations. I’ve been through it myself.

From Orthodixie: Was Gilligan’s Island hell and was Gilligan Satan? Funny, interesting, and well —“ a little scary.

Also, Fr Joseph Huneycutt has a book out: One Flew Over the Onion Dome — American Orthodox Converts, Retreads & Reverts

The book is available from the Regina Orthodox Press.

There’s been a lot of discussion on-line about converts, reverts, and those who were born into the faith. I imagine that the book will be quite interesting.

From Bonfire of the Vanities: Fr. Martin Fox did a homily this past Sunday, Making Jesus Known in the Breaking of the Bread, which he posted to his blog. The homily had some humor about children in Church and why those who complain about being ‘distracted’ by children are missing the whole point. Well, mothers who do home schooling have been talking up this homily and his stats show the power of these moms.

In our parish we have no nursery or ‘crying room’. We want those children right in church, with their families throughout the Holy Mass. That is where they will learn by the very behavior their parents model.

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Sphere Blog Search

Sphere is a new blog search tool. It was designed with the help of the 9Rules team. You can read more about it at the 9Rules site, or you can go directly to Sphere to check it out.

The nifty part of Sphere is the profile information provided for each blog. They also accept user suggestions for sites related to certain subjects (in beta), and they reference related media.

They seem to pick up info from blogs4God (T-Tagged posts) pretty readily.

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I will be away

A very dear aunt passed away late last week. The wake and funeral will be Tuesday and Wednesday. I will not be blogging for the next two days, although I will try to get the saints of the day posted before I leave.

Please remember her and her children, family, and friends in your prayers.

The pastor of the R.C. church where the funeral mass is being held is allowing me to sit in choir for the funeral. I appreciate his generosity and kindness.

Generally pastors do this sort of thing, and based on other recent experience, would like PNCC clergy to participate more fully. It presents an uncomfortable situation in that we have to explain why we cannot. Usually something like —Due to our unfortunate divisions etc. etc…—

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Debunking revisionism

John Luke at the BLOGCORNER Preacher has a post on one man’s story of the Holocaust and its biblical implications. The post is entitled: Telling the Story.

I link to John Luke and I enjoy reading his posts. They offer good insight and are edifying.

Unfortunately in this post he states that among others —Poles willingly went along with and enabled the mass slaughter.—

I’ve made a comment on his post in this regard to point out the error, and I will let that suffice. I certainly hope he will modify his comments.

By the way, for those seeking good documentation of Poland’s efforts in World War II (the third larged Allied Army in Europe) you might wish to contact Mr. Frank Milewski, President of the The Polish American Congress Holocaust Documentation Committee, 177 Kent St., Brooklyn, NY 11222, (718) 349-9689 or (718) 263-2700.

You may also wish to check out the memories of Michael Preisler, a Polish Christian and Auschwitz survivor (Auschwitz Prisoner No. 22213) who told his story: Polish Survivor Remembers Auschwitz Death March and Days of the Red Snow.

See Also: The History of Poland: The Second World War

The Cost:

The Poles are the people who really lost the war.

Over half a million fighting men and women, and 6 million civilians (or 22% of the total population) died. About 50% of these were Polish Christians and 50% were Polish Jews. Approximately 5,384,000, or 89.9% of Polish war losses (Jews and Gentiles) were the victims of prisons, death camps, raids, executions, annihilation of ghettos, epidemics, starvation, excessive work and ill treatment.

So many Poles were sent to concentration camps that virtually every family had someone close to them who had been tortured or murdered there.

There were one million war orphans and over half a million invalids.

The country lost 38% of its national assets (Britain lost 0.8%, France lost 1.5%). Half the country was swallowed up by the Soviet Union including the two great cultural centres of Lwow and Wilno.

Many Poles could not return to the country for which they has fought because they belonged to the “wrong” political group or came from eastern Poland and had thus become Soviet citizens. Others were arrested, tortured and imprisoned by the Soviet authorities for belonging to the Home Army.

Although “victors” they were not allowed to partake in victory celebrations.

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PNCC Holy Days and Feasts Script

I developed a php script based on the work of Dan Kaplan and the DateCalculator Script from Bob’s Scripts.

The script provides the dates of Easter and the days related to Easter. It also provides the dates of other Western Christian Feasts and Solemnities as well as those particular to the PNCC.

The script provides dates between 1902 and 2037. Just enter the year you would like to know about. To have a look click here…

If anyone would like the script just let me know. I’d be happy to share. Please E-mail me here

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Highly recommended interview with Chris Davis

I highly recommend you read the interview with Chris J. Davis over at the Godbit Project (Theology + Technology).

Mr. Davis is a full-on contributor to the WordPress project and co-designer of the WordPress K2 theme along with Michael Heilemann.

Mr. Davis discusses not only design but the God granted gifts behind being a designer. He notes that he is a member of the American Orthodox Church (see comments) and testifies to his faith.

Mr. Davis has a new book coming out, Blog Design Solutions, that he collaborated on and has his own blog at Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally.

Good reading all the way around.

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Polish Restaurant Database

I’ve been able to rebuild my Polish Restaurants database.

The database used to be at the Polonia Global Fund’s website. Polonia Global Fund (PGF) ended its web presence because it was simply too costly. This let us focus our charitable efforts in more effective ways.

The original database was a MS Access backend database with an ASP front-end search page. Using a very cool converter (Access to MySQL) I was able to import my Access data into MySQL. I then built a PHP page to search the data.

The database contains a listing of Polish restaurants, delis, and bed and breakfasts worldwide. The only condition for inclusion is that Polish food be a featured item.

If you are traveling and hankering for some pierogi – well we just might have the place for you. Check out the database here…

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