Mareczku's blog listings. Feed Zend_Feed_Writer 1.10.8 (http://framework.zend.com) http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku Mildred Loving I just heard the other day of the passing of Mildred Loving.  This is a person that I never met but a person who had an influence on my.  When I was in grade school I had to do a report on a current topic.  I looked through a magazine and saw an article, "The Crime of Being Married."  Mildred and her husband lived in Virginia.  She was black and her husband was white.  In Virginia interracial marriage was illegal.  Police came in the middle of the night and roused them out of bed and threw them in jail for being married.  They avoided a jail term by agreeing to leave the state.  They sued and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court which ruled that anti-miscegnation laws were unconstitutional.  As a child I could not believe that people could be treated like this.  I could not believe that the government could tell people who they could and could not love.  I lived in a what was then a mostly white community and didn't real have any black friends at the time.  I suppose I was somewhat prejudiced but this article really made me think about what a terrible thing prejudice was.  This beautiful young couple were being punished for who they were.  I found it so hard to believe.  As I follow Barack Obama's campaign and how he may very well be our next President it makes me understand how far our country has come since the 1960's and how brave the people were who fought back then to make this country a better place, a country where there truly is liberty and justice for all.  It is a continuing struggle I know but we are getting there. 

Peace to all - Mark     

 

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]]> Sat, 17 May 2008 13:48:35 -0500 http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/05/17/mildred_loving http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/05/17/mildred_loving I just heard the other day of the passing of Mildred Loving.  This is a person that I never met but a person who had an influence on my.  When I was in grade school I had to do a report on a current topic.  I looked through a magazine and saw an article, "The Crime of Being Married."  Mildred and her husband lived in Virginia.  She was black and her husband was white.  In Virginia interracial marriage was illegal.  Police came in the middle of the night and roused them out of bed and threw them in jail for being married.  They avoided a jail term by agreeing to leave the state.  They sued and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court which ruled that anti-miscegnation laws were unconstitutional.  As a child I could not believe that people could be treated like this.  I could not believe that the government could tell people who they could and could not love.  I lived in a what was then a mostly white community and didn't real have any black friends at the time.  I suppose I was somewhat prejudiced but this article really made me think about what a terrible thing prejudice was.  This beautiful young couple were being punished for who they were.  I found it so hard to believe.  As I follow Barack Obama's campaign and how he may very well be our next President it makes me understand how far our country has come since the 1960's and how brave the people were who fought back then to make this country a better place, a country where there truly is liberty and justice for all.  It is a continuing struggle I know but we are getting there. 

Peace to all - Mark     

 

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]]> 0 Good Friday I had a quiet Good Friday.  I fasted in the morning and didn't eat anything until after noon.  I went to Polish Stations of the Cross at 8 PM.  My friend Marek and I shared a book as they ran out.  It was very nice.  After Stations we venerated the cross.  Before Stations I read the Passion.  After that I helped with the flowers in church.  I saw Father Bryan, our young priest.  He is doing better after his accident.  He is such a great guy and has a holiness to him.  The young priests are so priceless to the Church and are greatly needed.

Peace - Mareczku 

 

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]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:08:09 -0500 http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/03/22/good_friday http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/03/22/good_friday I had a quiet Good Friday.  I fasted in the morning and didn't eat anything until after noon.  I went to Polish Stations of the Cross at 8 PM.  My friend Marek and I shared a book as they ran out.  It was very nice.  After Stations we venerated the cross.  Before Stations I read the Passion.  After that I helped with the flowers in church.  I saw Father Bryan, our young priest.  He is doing better after his accident.  He is such a great guy and has a holiness to him.  The young priests are so priceless to the Church and are greatly needed.

Peace - Mareczku 

 

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]]> 0 Holy Thursday I went to the Polish Mass for Holy Thursday. I was asked if I wanted to have my feet washed and I said yes.  My son thought that this was embarrassing but I was honored.  I even understood the sermon pretty well.  The priest talked about Peter, and Jesus washing the feet.  He said that there is no Eucharist with the priest and no priest without the Eucharist.  I thought that was profound.  I was touched by this Mass.

Peace - Mareczku 

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]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:05:07 -0500 http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/03/22/holy_thursday http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/03/22/holy_thursday I went to the Polish Mass for Holy Thursday. I was asked if I wanted to have my feet washed and I said yes.  My son thought that this was embarrassing but I was honored.  I even understood the sermon pretty well.  The priest talked about Peter, and Jesus washing the feet.  He said that there is no Eucharist with the priest and no priest without the Eucharist.  I thought that was profound.  I was touched by this Mass.

Peace - Mareczku 

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]]> 0 A Sad Day I felt sad today.  We had sad news.  Four young men were found dead in a home from carbon monoxide poisoning.  We found out that we knew 2 of the young men.  They were 19 and 20.  Two of the guys were best friends of my son from Catholic grade school. The one boy he went through 12 years of school with.  Both boys were often at our house when my son was in grade school or junior high.  They went to a big high school and he didn't see them often in high school and didn't see them much since graduation.  Still it is very upsetting.  We feel so sad for their families.  It is such a horrible tragedy for a young person to die.  The one boy's grandmother died last year and I know that he is with her and they are reunited.  I pray for the repose of their souls.  May God bless these beautiful young men that were lost way too soon. 

 Peace - Mark

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]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:01:27 -0600 http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/02/11/a_sad_day http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/02/11/a_sad_day I felt sad today.  We had sad news.  Four young men were found dead in a home from carbon monoxide poisoning.  We found out that we knew 2 of the young men.  They were 19 and 20.  Two of the guys were best friends of my son from Catholic grade school. The one boy he went through 12 years of school with.  Both boys were often at our house when my son was in grade school or junior high.  They went to a big high school and he didn't see them often in high school and didn't see them much since graduation.  Still it is very upsetting.  We feel so sad for their families.  It is such a horrible tragedy for a young person to die.  The one boy's grandmother died last year and I know that he is with her and they are reunited.  I pray for the repose of their souls.  May God bless these beautiful young men that were lost way too soon. 

 Peace - Mark

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]]> 0 Rainbow Thoughts 1 Comments - Leave a Comment ]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:22:40 -0600 http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/02/09/rainbow_thoughts http://community.beliefnet.com/mareczku/blog/2008/02/09/rainbow_thoughts 1 Comments - Leave a Comment ]]> 0