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Monsignor John Malinowski Celebrates 50 Years Of Priesthood

Current Events / By admin / May 29, 2013

Monsignor John Malinowski celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on Saturday, May 25, 2013 in Bryan, Texas. Born in Chappell Hill in 1935, the oldest of six siblings, Fr. John has been a part of the Bryan-College Station community for 40 years. He currently serves the Bryan-College Station area as chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital.
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2013 Homecoming Bazaar At St. Joseph’s In Stoneham

Articles, Current Events, Festivals and Bazaars / By James Smock / May 29, 2013

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Stoneham, Texas which was established in 1909 by Grimes County Polish immigrants, held their annual homecoming bazaar on Sunday, May 26, 2013. Bazaar day started with a special Mass celebrated by Fr. Ben Zientek at 10:30 am in the beautiful old church. Fr. Ben, a Washington County native, recently celebrated his 55th anniversary of ordination. At 11:00 am, workers started serving a delicious barbecue pork and beef dinner with all the fixings including a wide array of homemade deserts and cold ice tea.
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St. Joseph In Stoneham Annual Bazaar On Sunday May 26th

Articles, News / By James Smock / May 21, 2013

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Stoneham, Texas will be hosting their annual homecoming bazaar on Sunday, May 26, 2013 on the church grounds. St. Joseph Catholic Church was established in 1909 by a group of Polish-speaking immigrants from the Grimes Prairie, Stoneham and Plantersville areas.

Activities include a delicious barbecue dinner, booths and games for adults and children, raffle, live auction and live music by Bill Mock and the Hwy 105 Band..
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Seventh Annual Houston Polish Festival Held On May 4 – 5

Articles, Current Events, Festivals and Bazaars / By James Smock / May 7, 2013

The Good Lord blessed the people at Our Lady of Czestochowa Catholic Church with two days of really nice spring weather as the church held their 7th annual Polish Festival on Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5, 2013 on the church grounds in the Spring Branch area of Houston. The festival opened on Saturday morning with a rousing performance by Houston’s own Wawel Dance Group.
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Houston Polish Festival To Be Held On May 4th – 5th

Articles, News / By James Smock / April 24, 2013

Houston’s 7th Annual Polish Festival will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm and on Sunday, May 5, 2013 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. The festival is a celebration of all things Polish – the food, the music, the language, the customs and the culture of the Polish people and will be held on the grounds of Our Lady of Czestochowa Church conveniently located at 1731 Blalock Drive, in the Spring Branch area of Houston, about 1.5 miles north of the Katy Freeway.
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The Land of the Free Documentary Film

Articles, Culture, News / By Marcin Zielinski / April 23, 2013

The story about Polish Texans from the east-central Texas.

Synopsis
There is a very unique community living in the United States today. They speak Polish, even though they have never been to Poland. They consider themselves Polish, even though there is a golden eagle on their passports and their ancestors moved to this country almost 160 years ago. They strove to create a new place for themselves in the vast and diverse lands of Texas, which they believed to be “the land of the free”. …

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An Evening Of Heritage Banquet In Bremond

Articles, Current Events, Meetings / By James Smock / April 22, 2013

On the evening of April 20, 2013, over 400 people gathered in St. Mary’s Recreation Center in Bremond Texas for “An Evening Of Heritage”, an event sponsored by the Bremond Historical Society that celebrated Bremond’s Polish community and the Polish Oral History Project. In February of 2012 the Bremond Historical Society was awarded a grant from the Baylor University Institute of Oral History to record oral histories from the Polish Community.
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Marshall Family, Friends and Traditions Reunion In Plantersville

Articles, Current Events, Reunions / By James Smock / April 22, 2013

Fun, food, fellowship, music and dancing, what more could you ask for? Saturday, May 13, 2013 was a beautiful Texas spring day as hundreds of people from all over descended on Ronnie and Hazel Dutka’s beautiful big red barn in Plantersville, Texas to celebrate their Polish heritage at a fun-filled family reunion. The crowd was made up of members of the Marszalek/Marshall, Borek, Maduzia, Filar, Zabawa and Bartkowiak families along with many of their close friends.
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