Please join us to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ at your church home in Syracuse / Lakeland.
We wish you all a safe, spiritual and Merry Christmas to share with your family!
For Unto Us A Child Is Born!!! Christmas 2023 Schedule Read More »
Holy Mass on Sunday, May 5th, will be held ay 8am. We will return to our normal 11am Holy Mass schedule on Sunday, May 12th (Mother’s Day)
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By Chef Jash (as featured on Syracuse.com) on May 19th. Holy Mass at 3 p.m. followed by dinner from 4 to 6:30. Golupki, kielbasa, pierogi, haluski, kapusta, home made desserts, rye bread & beverage. All for only $12 for adults / $10 for seniors / $6 for children 6 to 12 and children under 6 free. Handicapped accessible – take out or dine in. Bring your appetites! For more information please call Bobbi at 315-487-2756.
Last Authentic Polish Dinner Until September Read More »
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE POLISH TO LOVE THIS FOOD!
Top off your Fall day with great food and good company!
Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 4:00 til 6:30 PM at our Parish hall.
3690 Armstrong Road, Lakeland/Camillus.
The dinner includes: kielbasa: home-made haluski, golumpki, pierogi, and kapusta (Polish sauerkraut); bread; dessert; and a drink (coffee, tea, or lemonade).
$10.00 for adults, $9.00 for seniors 65 and over, $5.00 for children 4-12.
Take-out and Frozen Bulk Orders Available
For more information call 315 468-6140.
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Our annual summer Polish picnic on June 13, 2010, was a great success. Although we had a lot of competition from other festivals in the area, we did remarkably well. The picnic ran from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, but we started to run out of some food items as early as 3:15! And we didn’t prepare any less food than we usually do for our picnics.
We saw lots of familiar faces who attended our functions in the past. And, there were many new faces, too.  Our stepped up publicity and word-of-mouth advertising seem to be doing the trick. Thanks to Bobbi Lasinski for taking care of radio ads, to Richard Zalewski for putting up all those flyers, to Steve Zalewski for the road signs. and to Carol Rightnour for notifying the newspapers and TV stations.
And a special thank you to all of our hard-working parishioners for their time and effort. And thanks to our patrons!
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Knowing that the Memorial Day Mass would be held at the cemetery altar, Bob Kolonko, our grounds-keeper and cemetery sexton, took the initiative to clean and repair it. As a result, it has never looked better, except possibly, when it was brand new. And most of us can’t remember that far back.
Thank you, Bob, for doing such a wonderful job. It made our Memorial Day service all the more respectful to those we loved and to our veterans.
Thanks to Debbie Kolonko for the photo.
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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.
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 Jesusâ€. It was a thrilling evening.
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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.
Dedication of the Holy Cross National Catholic Church Parish Hall Read More »
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.
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