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Ship of Fools: St Anthony of Padua, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

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edited November 2022 in The Mystery Worshipper

imageShip of Fools: St Anthony of Padua, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Country and jazz version of ‘Amazing Grace’ shines out at a Polka Mass

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  • Box PewBox Pew Shipmate
    I had not come across Casimir Pulaski before, but quick research shows he is obviously a major figure for Polish-Americans. That community is generally thought socially conservative, so I wonder what they make of the suggestion that the hero was inter-sex or even a cross-dressed woman?
  • Zt9kZt9k Shipmate Posts: 1
    Probably the same that German Americans make of von Steuben? Which anything like us (Americans with polish grandparents and parents, at least in Detroit area) would be nothing. Our phyletism, back when we existed, was more concerned with the 1920 polish-soviet war and John Paul II. In fact I kept mentally having to check myself reading pulaski as pilsudski. Nobody cared nor could relate to anything before that time.

    My family never cared much for nationalism and we all left the religion eventually. (I distinctly remember my dad complaining to me after hearing a polish patriotic song during mass saying "what are we, episcopalians?" - I guess at a couple Anglican funerals or weddings he attended they had the national anthem which annoyed him)

    Everyone else has assimilated , so we really no longer exist. Do not ever recall us going to a polka mass, but glad the reviewer found it rewarding.
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