{"id":7188,"date":"2011-01-30T01:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2011-01-30T13:49:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T18:49:37","slug":"saint-adalbert-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2011\/01\/saint-adalbert-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Adalbert thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"370\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U1ih3wb4Ohs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It is easy for us to point our fingers at the Buffalo Diocese\u2026it is easy for us to blame the neighborhood\u2026it is easy to blame a lot of things except ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that we let this happen time and time again.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am off base with what I about to say, but this is where I am at tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish American community shoulders a lot of the blame for letting a large part of our physical history here in B-F simply fade away.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Adalbert Basilica is in now danger of joining the long list of places that WNY\u2019s Polish American community has let disappear.<\/p>\n<p>For as much as we cherish our Polish ancestry, an equal part of a lot of our pasts are intertwined with our Polish American past here in Broadway-Fillmore.  The Polish immigrant culture in our collective history who built this neighborhood\u2026built places like Saint Adalbert\u2019s should be honored differently.  We should be ashamed at what we have allowed to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, there are a lot of people who recognize the importance of our history here in B-F. People who work hard and diligently to preserve what is left, but these people are clearly not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Father Anzelm Chalupka former Pastor of Corpus Christi Church used to say something like this around the Easter and Christmas seasons when the church was pretty close to being full\u2026it is nice to have you around the holidays, but we need you all year round.<\/p>\n<p>We do need you\u2026we need you because if you don\u2019t celebrate what is uniquely ours here in B-F, it will continue to fade away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy for us to point our fingers at the Buffalo Diocese\u2026it is easy for us to blame the neighborhood\u2026it is easy to blame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,623],"tags":[212,186],"class_list":["post-7188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-b-f-preservation","tag-saint-adalbert-basilica","tag-saint-adalbert-basilica-buffalo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-1RW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}