Video 2008 Rosary Procession
Our 5th Annual Candlelight Rosary Procession will take place Friday, October 7th, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, at 7 PM.
This year, many new languages will be heard. A reception will follow in the Kolbe Center.
All are welcome!
Festival to Feature Special Mass, Pierogi Contest, Polish Food, Music, Flea Market
Buffalo, New York – The 32st annual Dożynki Polish Harvest Festival at Corpus Christi Church in Buffalo will begin on Friday August 19th and run through August 21st. This joyful celebration, which dates to the middle ages, is the Polish equivalent of America’s Thanksgiving holiday. In Poland, this event marks the end of the wheat harvest. At Corpus Christi, Dożynki is an opportunity to give thanks for all manner of blessings.
The heart of the Polish Harvest Festival is to bring people together in a spirit of gratitude and appreciation to God for all we have been given. This year’s Dożynki Festival activities will offer a chance to enjoy homemade Polish food including pierogi, gołąbki, naleśniki, along with grilled sausage, baloney, hot dogs and hamburgers. Delicious Wendel’s Chicken Barbeque will be available on Sunday afternoon. Our expanded Polish Café will offer mouth-watering desserts, a chance to throw a few balls down the newly repaired bowling lanes and visit the Flea Market. Polish-American beer, The Grand Raffle, Theme Baskets, Farmers’ Market, and historic church tours will make this a summer event you don’t want to miss.
The festival opens on Friday, August 19th at 6:30p.m. with food from The Grill. A special performance by Mona Lisa, a contemporary Polish singer, will begin at 7:15p.m.
Saturday, the Festival begins with the 11:30a.m. Mass in the Chapel. The sounds of Al Kania’s Polka Smile Eastern Style will fill the air on Saturday afternoon, followed by the 4th annual Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Contest. Mass at 5:30p.m., followed by dancing to the Concertina All-Stars, round out the evening.
The uniqueness of this celebration is expressed during the offertory procession during Sunday’s Dożynki Mass, to be held at 11:30a.m.,when a specially baked bread is presented along with a wreath made of grains and wildflowers. The special liturgy will be presented in English and Polish. Music for the special Mass will be performed by Director Bruce Woody and will feature several talented performers. [Read more…]
FOURTH ANNUAL BUFFALO’S BEST PIEROGI CONTEST
Contest Celebrates Buffalo’s Ethnic Heritage
Buffalo, New York – Corpus Christi Church is looking for Buffalo’s best pierogi by hosting its fourth annual Buffalo’s Best Pierogi contest on Saturday August 20 at 4:30p.m. The contest is open to all amateur cooks and businesses.
The contest has grown from fourteen contestants to last year’s high of thirty-five. Christopher Byrd the contest organizer says the event “captures Buffalo’s love for food while celebrating our city’s rich ethnic heritage with recipes and traditions passed on from one generation to the next.”
Applicants will be judged in one of three categories:
Homemade Traditional – boiled or fried pierogi filled with cheese, cheese/potato or kapusta (pickled or fresh cabbage) with or without mushrooms, carrots, etc.
Homemade Non-Traditional – open to entrant’s creativity, keeping in mind that a pierog is a stuffed pocket of dough.
Commercial – open to any business using a traditional recipe.
Deadline for entries is Saturday, August 13.
A group of celebrity judges will determine the winners for the contest. Winners in each category will walk away with the title of Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Maker.
The contest will take place during Corpus Christi’s 32nd annual Dozynki (pronounced Do-ZHIN-kee) Polish Harvest Festival on August 19, 20 and 22. This joyful commemoration, which dates to the middle ages, is the Polish equivalent of America’s Thanksgiving holiday.
Corpus Christi Church is located at 199 Clark St. in Buffalo, one block east of the Broadway Market in the heart of Buffalo’s Historic Polonia. Applications for the pierogi contest and a complete listing of Harvest Festival events can be found on the church website at http://dozynki.
Buffalo’s got Pierogi!
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