catholic new blood in UK

Tongue in cheek.....A........tongue in cheek..........

I don't want to give you nightmares with some of my stories....:(

Are you having probs with ya comp tonight Mr F only you seem to keep repeating the same posts

yeah...got too many screens up.....soz.....nah...you're way too young.....and slim hipped...aaahheeemmm.....

Trust me, it sounds different when said by a polish person and way different when said by English speaking person i.e. in the movies. My American friends feel very uncomfortable pronouncing it when asked and told - it just means a polish man... :)

Alas, hitherto it looks like Syrena_04 is right, or could there yet be some positive and constructive suggestions to my original question?

And Syrena...you're contribution was?..........throwing verbal stones from the side lines....lol

buttonmoon,

I think that Polish communities are growing now in UK and they have impact on Catholic Church.. For instance in Peterborough there are so many polish people that every Sunday it is held extra mass in Polish in the church. There is also mass in polish club.

There are some Christmas parties, Andrzejki......But this is all in polish language....

Maybe you should have a look in your area for some polish club? This is usually club-but opened for everyone as they serve some drinks....

Syrena is right.....all this thread was changed into...meaning of words Polak...offensive or not.?

I don't think that this is the biggest concern and question for buttonmoon.:)

Iwona...neither do I......but its worthwile putting into context what this guy is looking for....plus if in my eyes he can be so careless to use a less than pleasant word to describe the people he wants to meet, then it does raise one or two queries!!!!

There are mostly English speaking non-Polish people on this board......and the Polish people are in poland.....so not the best place to get relevant answers!!

Then again who goes to mass to pull ?????...lol.....

Thanks for your suggestions Iwona. As it happens there is a prior Polish community in Leeds, with its own club and chruch. I think its origins are around WWII. This may be obscure, but I even came across an out of print book (of all places in a prison isolation wing book trolley (which I was visiting as part of my vocation, not an inhabitant)) produced a few years ago by a Polish community project in Leeds which translated Polish folk tales, with amazing cartoons, into English. Now even I digress!

Perhaps an initiative that might aid all would be to see if I can restart coffee and drinks after mass, rather than all fleeing. This would give all our congregration opportunities to meet and be more of a community. Who knows what might spin off............

Furthermore, I would like to visit Polan in the new Year in any event. I see from the www that one of my hobbies (Argentine tango) has quite a few clubs in Poland. I am not sure if Slasa is big there too?

:)

I think that you main objective is to find a Polish women which I dont see as a very christian thing but a selfish thing, you're not offering tea and coffee for the community but in the hope of chatting up a lady! Church is for praying not for thinking about copping off!

Then again who goes to mass to pull ?????...lol.....

not necessary always to pull - but this is place where he can meet some polish people.

Many activities and groups are cenred around churches, but with a religious ethos e.g. scouts, education, theatre groups, walking groups, community groups, political groups, elderly groups, youth groups, professional associations, benevolent groups. Worship is ofcourse the focus of The Church and associated groups are numerous and in my view healthy. It is a natuaral trait to spend some time in kinship. The secular world does not answer all.

I find terminology such as copping off as quite negative, frankly.

I don't know why English people have so strange views about meeting people trough church?

I can only assume that because they are mainly agnostic/atheists so this idea is for them like trip to mars....:)

Iwona, Im catholic and was brought in a very strict fashion, catholic church as far as I am aware is not a place to meet someone for a relationship, yes there are groups as buttonmoon has pointed out, but I see it that his intentions are to find a wife.

where else can the priests meet young boys?

Thanks for your varying views. Clealry there is a spectrum of thought.

I quite agree that inside the confines of Mass is sacred. However outside of the mass it is natural to socialize in associated groups, albeit with the usual tact and sensitivity that would occur daily. So, if travelling on say a pilgrimage or a parish outing, one should find something in common with another such as an interest in say art, surely it would not be wrong to visit an art gallery at some other time, for that is the nature of human dynamics and it may or may not go further.

Within the Catholic Church is a belief that marriage itself is a sacred. To my mind, activities and social groups around Church are likely to contain the highest concentration of kins, compared to say a disco.

As intended in my original question, I would welcome positive suggestions of how one may meet practising Polish ladies, in the UK or elsewhere, so if not around Church activities, then I would welcome positive suggestions on where / how else?