08/05/2012 (Bulletin)
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The 33rd annual Dożynki Polish Harvest Festival at Corpus Christi Church
The 33rd annual Dożynki Polish Harvest Festival at Corpus Christi Church in Buffalo, New York will take place on August 17, 18 and 19. The word Dożynki means a celebration of harvest and is a centuries old tradition by farmers in rural Poland.
The weekend long celebration will include traditional Polish food, music and drink. Festival highlights include the 5th Annual Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Contest on Saturday, August 18 at 4:30pm and the Harvest Mass on Sunday, August 19 at 11:30am featuring polka and folk music.
The festival opens on Friday, August 17 at 6:30 and closes on Sunday, August 18 at 7pm.
Corpus Christi Church was founded in 1898 and is located in the heart of Buffalo’s Historic Polonia.
For more information about the festival, visit http://dozynki.corpuschristibuffalo.org.
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Buffalo News, My View: Corpus Christi Church is a Buffalo treasure
(By Ken Sroka) Charity Vogel’s recent articles about parishioners’ letters stored a century ago in the south tower cupola of Corpus Christi Church rekindled childhood memories.
When I was 10 years old, I could see the towers and their enormous clocks from the second-floor window of my family’s home at Clark Street and Paderewski Drive. The tower bells tolled the hours over the rooftops of the surrounding neighborhood, complementing the jukebox music from the neighborhood taverns. The bells reminded me to rise and walk to the parish convent to serve 6:30 a.m. Mass during the frigid Buffalo winter.
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