[A Polish version of Fr. "Stan the Man" Fortuna?]
A Rapping Priest from Poland in a Cassock
Tancred
9/15/12
We moderns reject aristocracy, insisting that our rulers reflect our ignorant selves, whereas 19th-century workmen dressed elegantly even while digging ditches. The more casual our elites appear, the more we like them, which frees them further from doing anything uncomfortable.
-Charles Coulombe for Takimag
Promoting Holy Scripture for youth: A Polish priest takes an unusual route
Poland (kath.net) A polish chaplain is making an appeal for bible reading in an unusual way. [While wearing a cassock or in regular street clothes, the chaplain cuts a rather secular figure.] With a rap song which has already received a hundred thousand hits, the priest is attempting to bring youth in the the church. Jakub Bartczak is the chaplain in the Lower Saxon city of Breslau and sings a song for the bible. “Read Holy Scripture, man.” The news broadcaster TVN 24 explained about Bartczak, that he had already been performing music before he entered seminary. In the mean time his own Diocese has also put the video on their homepage.
Besides the undercutting of the dignity of the priesthood, its a novel idea. If only it wasn’t rap. We once went to the local N.O. priory and asked to be let into the church. The man who opened the door for us was dressed in sweat pants and a tee-shirt with a beer logo. We thought he was a secretary or something. Nope. How can we give the proper respect to a priest if he is not even recognizable as such? Thanks be to God for the SSPX.