Holy Cross PNC Church

Bring a non-perishable food item for our local food pantry and enjoy a free spaghetti dinner.

Holy Cross Church is offering a free spaghetti dinner to each person who donates a non-perishable food item for our local food pantry.  Satisfy your hunger by helping to feed the hungry in our community.   We hope to show the community that we live our faith by reaching out in ways that benefit us all.

Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009

Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Location: Holy Cross Parish Hall, 3690 Armstrong Road, Lakeland, NY 13209

For more information, call:  315 468-6140 (Steve or Pat Zalewski) or 315 488-0104 (Carol Rightnour)

Holy Mass will be celebrated before dinner at 11:00 AM.

Our picnic was a great success! The weather was a bit cloudy at first, but no rain and bright sunshine as the afternoon went on. That, the great food, and Polka Stony’s music kept everything upbeat. The food was so popular this year that, by 3:30 – a half hour before the event was scheduled to end – we started to run out of golumki, potato and cabbage pierogi, and haluski!  We’ll have to make more for next time.

These folks chose to eat inside our new Parish hall.

The food must be great if the kids like it!

Grateful thanks go to our visitors and patrons. It was so good to see all of you. Lots of new faces and lots of loyal repeaters.  You make this event fun and worthwhile.

The raffles were a big hit. Thanks to Bobbi Lasinski (grocery bag raffle) and Sue Bednarek (Chinese auction).  And, we did very well on the bake sale.  Kudos to Maryanne Greenfield and our volunteer bakers.

This year was the first time our Parish made our own potato pierogi. Credit goes to our Pierogi Pinchin’ Society: Pat Zalewski, Jennifer Fragola, Richard Zalewski, Helen Stasiak, Maryanne Greenfield, Deb Kolonko, Sue Prince, Sue Bednarek, Bobbi Lasinski, Linda Klusek, Lynne Kazinetz, Carol Rightnour, and Father Senior Madej.

Linda K, Pat Z, Deb K, Lynne K, and Helen S fill and stuff pierogi.

Bobbi L, Sue B, Maryanne G, and Sue P round out the crew.

Dave Greenfield and Rick Navatka kept the cars in line in the parking lot. And let’s not forget our outdoor set-up and tear-down crew: Dave Greenfield, Steve Zalewski, Richard Zalewski, and John Lasinski.

Our kitchen crew kept that great food coming: Joe Kolonko, Pat Zalewski, Jen Fragola, Carol Rightnour, Bill Ostroski,Jr., and J. J. Kolonko. And, our food servers were busy just about all afternoon: Deb Kolonko, Sue Prince, Lynne Kazinetz, Weisia Madej, J. J. Kolonko, and Joe Kolonko.

Our patrons get in line for our great food.

Maureen Navatka, Pat Zalewski, and Carol Rightnour took food orders and cash, and Richard Zalewski manned the drinks table.

Our welcomers and greeters said “hello,” “come back again,” and helped folks find what they needed:  Bobbi and John Lasinski, and Steve Zalewski.

A big Thank You goes to Rick Navatka for driving to Pennsylvania the Saturday before the picnic to pick up the great kielbasa that everyone raves about.

Father Sr. Madej kept up our spirits, told us we could do it, and gave us the support we needed.

If I forgot anyone’s contribution, please let me know and I’ll add it.  You are all terrific.

Enjoy great food, music, and family fun at our annual Fall Community Picnic!

Father Madej and friends enjoy coffee and conversation at last year's picnic.

When: Sunday,  September 13, 2009

Holy Mass is at 11:00 AM; Picnic runs from 1:00 to 4:00 PM

Where: Holy Cross National Catholic Church Grounds

3690 Armstrong Road, Camillus, NY  (near Lakeland: see map below)

Food:

• Homemade pierogi (both potato and cabbage)
• Homemade golumki (“pigs in a blanket”)
• Kielbasa (Polish sausage)
• Kapusta (Polish sauerkraut)
• Salt potatoes
• Haluski (noodles, cabbage, and butter)
• Hamburgers and hotdogs (with all the fixings)
• Soft drinks, bottled water, coffee, tea
• Homemade deserts
• Ice cream

Raffles: Chinese auction; 50-50, Mystery Bags, etc.

Entertainment: DJ: Polka Stoney

DJ Polka Stoney

Map:

Our booth last year at this event was a big hit, so this year we’re adding

Golumki to our menu:

Pierogi

Kielbasi Sandwiches

Polish Cabbage (sauerkraut)

This is a major fund-raiser for Holy Cross Church as well as an opportunity to participate in an annual community event.  Come and have some great home-made Polish food!

Thursday and  Friday (Aug. 6 & 7): 4:00 – 11:00  PM

Saturday (Aug. 8): 1:00  – 11:00 PM

For more information, contact us through our website or call Steve Zalewski (315) 468-6140.

Map to Woods Road Park, Solvay, NY:

It’s time for the White Eagle Medical Bridge Annual Golf Tournament, and it promises to be a day of fun and excitement!  The tournament is a four-man scramble, captain and crew.

When: Saturday August 15^th, 2009

Where: Twin Ponds Golf and Country Club, New York Mills, NY

Donation: $70.00 per person:  Includes greens fees, cart, and dinner

Entry deadline: August 10, 2009

Application Form: Call Fr. Sr. Walter Madej at (315) 736-9757 or “Contact Us” from the home page of this web site.

Prizes: A hole-in-one on Hole #8 wins a new Ford Mustang. The putting contest can win you $200.00

Non-golfers can attend the dinner-only at 2:00 PM for $25.00. Contact Doreen Czupryna at (315) 796-8711.

The White Eagle Bridge of Upstate New York, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides assistance to medical clinics, hospitals, schools, and orphanages in Poland. We thank you for your participation in this event which helps us to continue our important work. If you cannot attend, donations are gratefully accepted.

The Instrument

Our pipe organ, a Hook and Hastings Opus 1884, was built in 1900.  It boasts a tracker action, which is the simplest, most dependable, and expressive action possible in an organ.  The tracker action uses mechanical vs. electrical connections to produce a unique pipe organ sound.  Although our organ was originally hand pumped, we now use electricity to supply air to the pipes.  The organ has two manuals and three keyboards, including the pedals.  It has seven ranks of pipes.

The brothers Elias and George G. Hook began manufacturing organs in 1827 and soon became known as one of the best organ builders in the country.  The firm became Hook and Hastings in the late 1800s when it was taken over by Francis Hastings.  Their organs are known for their fine craftsmanship, mellow tone, and smooth voicing.

Our Hook & Hastings Pipe Organ

The History

Our organ was built in 1900 for Holy Faith Protestant Episcopal Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Some time later, it was moved to an unknown location and, from there, to a church in Central New York.

In the late 1930s, our parishioners learned that the organ was available.  Several parishioners drove to the church and transported the disassembled organ, piece by piece, to our former church building on 450 Wilkinson Street in Syracuse, where it was reassembled and served for many years.

In the mid 1990s we decided to build a new church on our property on Armstrong Road.  Many parishioners had memories of the wonderful music they enjoyed in the old church, so we decided to take the organ with us.  We sought the advice of Kerner & Merchant Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd., of East Syracuse.  They advised us that it was still a fine instrument, and we engaged them to move, reassemble, and refurbish it in our new church.

A Concert

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous gift from a friend of the parish, we were pleased to present a concert of classical organ music on October 26, 2002.  The organist was Will Headlee, a Professor emeritus of Organ and the Syracuse University Organist Emeritus.  For the concert finale, he accompanied a church full of voices singing “Come Unto Jesus”.  It was a thrilling evening.

On Sunday June 21, 2009, Holy Cross Parish of Syracuse, NY celebrated the dedication of its new parish hall. There is no way to describe the joy experienced during the mass and banquet.

Holy Mass was celebrated by our diocesan Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Anthony Mikovsky. Co-celebrants included our Prime Bishop, Robert Nemkovich; our pastor, Fr. Sr. Walter Madej; our former pastor, Dennis Ruda; Reverend Jack Kissel of Solvay United Methodist Church; Fr. Marion Pociecha, Fr. Stanley Bilinski, Fr. Rafal Dadello, and Deacon Jim Konicki Our acolyte John J. Kolonko assisted.

After he blessed the new hall, Bishop Mikovsky and the rest of our guests enjoyed a delicious meal, inspiring speakers and music, and delightful company. We were pleased to receive so many compliments on the hall.

We are so thankful to our generous and hardworking parishioners for their support; our Parish Committee for its leadership; our contractor, Larry Komuda for his skill and generous efforts; the YMS of R; Liz Kotula and Mike and Sue Bednarek for a new commercial stove; and to Pelligra Moving Company for donating furniture, a refrigerator, and their moving services. Many other parish members and friends made special gifts and donated their time and hard work to support the building of the hall. We thank them all.

Moreover in regard to the saying, Let him deny himself, the following saying of Paul who denied himself seems appropriate, Yet I live, and yet no longer I but Christ lives in me; for the expression, I live, yet no longer I, was the voice of one denying himself, as of one who had laid aside his own life and taken on himself the Christ, in order that He might live in him as Righteousness, and as Wisdom, and as Sanctification, and as our Peace, and as the Power of God, who works all things in him. But further also, attend to this, that while there are many forms of dying, the Son of God was crucified, being hanged on a tree, in order that all who die unto sin may die to it, in no other way than by the way of the cross. Wherefore they will say, I have been crucified with Christ, and, Far be it from me to glory save in the cross of the Lord, through which the world has been crucified unto me and I unto the world. For perhaps also each of those who have been crucified with Christ puts off from himself the principalities and the powers, and makes a show of them and triumphs over them in the cross; or rather, Christ does these things in them. — Commentary on Matthew, Book XII, Chapter 25.