My Pierogi Meal

 A nice meal that I had last week:

It consisted of spinach and cheese pierogi (small dumplings) with lightly boiled potatoes, carrots, courgette, and broccoli covered in olive oil. Also put the vegetable juice from the pan into a cup and drank it with the meal.

Inside St. Stanislaus Kostka Church

Really enjoyed going inside St. Stanislaus Kostka (the Father Popiełuszki) church, near Plac Wilsona in Warsaw, a few weeks ago. 

First, the church contained beautiful Stations of the Cross on the walls:

 And the church was full of interesting statues:

 Think that the picture below may well be of St. Therese of Lisieux:

 And I was left guessing if the statue below was of St. Joseph or St. Christopher with the Child Jesus:

A flower-decorated Marian statue inside the church:

The picture below gives some idea of the size and spatial dynamics of the church:

Gaining aesthetic and spiritual emotion from visiting a church is something that the (post-) modern world has lost, I think.

Finding Zwierzyniec Beer in Warsaw

This made my day when I found Zwierzyniec beer in Warsaw, because it might just be my all-time favourite Polish drink:

I found it in a small supermarket near Plac Wilsona where I got some other interesting-looking, Polish regional beer too:

Yeah, I think I'll enjoy all three of these beers in the not too distant future. 

Saint Ekspedite

Saw this statue of St. Ekspedite (St. Ekspeditus) in Saint Stanislaus Kostka's church, near Plac Wilsona in Warsaw:

The name St. Ekspedite rang a bell but I couldn't recall anything about him, but judging from the statue here, I could see that he was an old Roman saint. Have just read that he was a Roman centurion in Armenia who became a Christian and was beheaded for this during the Diocletian Persecution in 303.

Kotek Basking in the Sunshine

Nice picture from last summer of Kotek basking in the sunshine on a window sill.

Below, there's a picture of him inside one of his favourite boxes:

First Flowers of Spring

 The first flowers of spring that I noticed were these purple crocus:

It seemed highly appropriate that these penitential purple-coloured crocus should sprout up towards the end of Lent, of course.

The Crucifix on a Tree

I've been by the side of Father Popiełuszki's grave at St. Stanislaus Kostka's church, near Plac Wilsona in Warsaw, many times, but only recently, have I noticed the crucifix high up in a tree:

And then I only noticed it when a man from a local Rosary group pointed it out to me:

The man kindly explained that the crucifix was attached to the tree when the latter was young, so as the years have passed by, the crucifix has become more and more elevated in the air.