#Polish heritage

[theophan-o]

Cossack in the Steppe (Kozak w stepie)

by a Polish painter, Alfons Dunin-Borkowski (1850-1918), oils on canvas, 72 cm x 53 cm, 1881-1886. Currently, in the collection of the Silesian Museum in Katowice (MŚK/SzM/971).

The painting is an illustration of the Polish Romantic poem "Maria. Powieść ukraińska" by Antoni Malczewski (1793-1826), containing one of the earliest in the Polish classical literature images of a Ukrainian Cossack as a Romantic Steppe Knight.

[beautyofpoland]

[lu-kario]

POV this guy invites you to a dyskoteka in remiza . do you accept ?

[smallhobbitelf]

I just made the most delicious Kompot ever!!

[thehalftrollscholar]

Something I love about being Roman Catholic, is how much of our faith is expressed through art. We are encouraged to share our faith with paintings, music, sculptures, not because of the iconography, but because we’re filled with so much passion that we have to share it. 

One of the reasons the Vatican is so important, even to non Catholics, is because it’s a huge repository of art, history, and knowledge. A giant art gallery/museum/library.

In Catholic teaching, the very act of creating something is inherently holy. When you create a piece of art or anything that you feel pride, your putting a piece of your faith in it, God and the Holy Ghost are working through you to just show your love, love for your life and your faith.

Now, some faiths teach it as being sinful or disrespectful to create any iconography that is not of Christ, and that’s something that the Catholic faith gets a lot of judgment for.

But when we make paintings and sculptures of saints and of Mary, we’re not doing it out of disrespect to the Lord. When we pray to saints it’s not because we worship them, but because we admire them and wish to recognize those who gave their lives to do God’s work. We are praying to God to help us live like them, when there are certain things we are struggling with.

Music, while obviously important to many faiths and religions, it is especially important to Catholics. Most of our mass is done through song and music. 

This is particularly true for me, as I come from a Polish American family. And I’m only third generation American meaning that my family still practices a lot of traditions brought over from the old country. And old world Catholicism is very much about combining your heritage, your culture, any part of your life with your faith.

And I don’t know if it’s a thing about Polish families, or European families, or just Catholic families, or what. But we love to sing, when I am with my family one of us will just start singing out of the blue, and the whole family will join. Little lullabies or songs that we heard on the radio, or just straight nonsense that we come up with on the spot. 

A part of me thinks this comes from my mother’s family who’s culture is so important to our identity. Because my dad‘s family they don’t really do that. They’re very quiet, very reserved with their emotions. And most of the places I’ve been to in my life most groups of people are similar to that. Meanwhile, most of my mother’s family and other Catholic communities I’ve been to people are very outspoken, fiery, and really want to share not just their faith, but their life, their traditions, their heritage, their passions!

To Roman Catholics, the simplest things contain a shred of divinity in them. Too Babci cooing to the little baby in the crib, making pierogi with your mother in the kitchen, too wandering the woods with your friends and siblings, the old men sitting on the porch, talking back-and-forth about whatever.

The very act of living, of breathing, of joy, of simply existing right now at this moment…. is holy!

And that is one of the reasons why I, despite my struggles and doubts, will always be Catholic, and proud of it.

[unofficialchronicle]

[universalambients]

January Uprising (1863) Ambient Music

[machazer]

Polish Literature. Polish Music. Polish Folk.

[books-typo-and-so-on]

Zobacz „mPolona”

Aplikacja mobilna Polona.pl jest już dostępna!

[lady-nightmare]

[trupowieszcz-moved]

wszedłem na fejsbuka kierowany jakimś dziwnym przeczuciem i pierwszy post jaki mi się wyświetlił to ten piękny wpis z lowania polskiego herytadżu grupy

[theophan-o]

Józef Brandt (1841-1915), a well-known Polish artist, was fascinated with the Ukrainian Cossacks and created pictures of them throughout all his life:

Reposing Cossacks (Kozacy na wywczasach), oil on canvas, c. 1883.

The actual location of this masterpiece is unknown, perhaps it has been lost during the 1st or 2nd World War. Here reproduced on a vintage Polish postcard from the beginning of the 20th century.

[tf2heritageposts]

freak fortress oc:

tf2heritageposts

tf2heritageposts is a classic heavy model who is always seen on a comically old iphone “heritaging” posts. he is often seen making violent threats against others and eating chicken and fries. he lives in albuquerque, new mexico[2] and has a pet rabbit named tater tot who eats human flesh

his theme is starfuckers inc by nine inch nails

[opelman]

Lightning by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Flying Bulls' polished metal P-38 during its performance at the 2024 Sywell Air Show. Aircraft: Lockheed P-38 Lightning N25Y (44-53254). Location: Sywell Aerodrome (ORM/EGBK), Northamptonshire, UK.

[the-lonelyshepherd]

“polish” americans scare me this facebook group is acc insane bc tell me why he didn’t even get the right flag

„polskie” Amerykanie są oszalane ale uwielbiam te grupe na Facebooku.. 😭