A Multicultural Ministry, Past and Present

On our episode today wehave two guests, Father Jonathan Sawicki of the Diocese of Harrisburg, and FatherStephen Robbins who is returning for his second appearance on our program. Similarin age and backgrounds, we discuss our understanding of faith as inherited fromour ancestors but also as to how it impacts the work of ministry today in a verydifferent Church. A Church which sometimes struggles to preserve its history whilealso responding to the very real needs of the world today. Through our conversation we take you through the case study of Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania and the expression of immigrant Catholicism there that can give us a unique insight into how we might better serve the immigrants and the several generation removed Polish Catholics today.ChopinPieces Courtesy of classicals.deChopin- Grande Valse Brillante; Etude Op. 25 no.1 in A-flat major, Recorded, produced, and released to thepublic by: The Musopen Kickstarter Project - Set Chopin Free https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/set-chopin-freeCreativeCommons - Public Domain Mark 1.0 UniversalCC PDM 1.0 Sounds Courtesy of freesound.orgEmotional Guitar byMigfus20 -- https://freesound.org/s/559845/ -- License: Attribution 4.0Accordion-music-reverb.wavby eyenorth -- https://freesound.org/s/482212/ -- License: Attribution 4.0Hopeful CinematicEmotional Orchestra Background Music by EvanBoyerman --https://freesound.org/s/753968/ -- License: Attribution 4.0Working with hammer onanvil #1 by arnaud coutancier -- https://freesound.org/s/388056/ -- License:Attribution NonCommercial 3.0Sad Emotional - bpm 86loop by DenKyschuk -- https://freesound.org/s/719045/ -- License: AttributionNonCommercial 4.0Warsaw-church-chant-2.wavby xserra -- https://freesound.org/s/115233/ -- License: Attribution 4.0