The program includes folk and popular music selections loved not only by Hungarians, also selections from romantic and classical composers like Monti, Hubay, Dinicu, Khachaturian, Offenbach, Suppé, Strauss or Rossini – just to name a few. They played for Pope Benedict, now they are here to entertain you, sit back and enjoy!

Tickets: $25 for adults; $15 for those 12-18 and free for children under 12. Since there will be table seating, please bring cookies, pastries or soft drinks to share during the performance. Scott Hall of the First United Methodist Church of Bedford 1245 Bedford Rd. Bedford, Texas 76021 (Scott Hall is adjoined to the main sanctuary). For more information: Contact Peter Vali : peter.vali@verizon.net (214.641.3358). .

On successive Sundays, May 29 and then on June 5, 2011, Father Julius Leloczky and his numerous friends, former students and members of the congregation and local Hungarian community joined him in celebrating his 50th year in the Cistercian priesthood. Following both masses, there was a reception for him at the Cistercian School.

Fr. Julius Leloczky was born in Hungary in 1932 and he entered the Cistercian Order in 1953 at the Monastery of Zirc. In Lilienfeld, Austria, after making his solemn profession on September 18, 1960, he was ordained to the priesthood on July 9, 1961. Fr. Julius is the monastery's head librarian. At the school he teaches mostly religion; and to the novices he teaches Cistercian History. Fr. Julius was Form Master for Class 1986, 1994, 2000, and 2009.

On Sunday, July 26, 2009, the Rev. Dr. Esiobu Augustus visited the Cistercian Abbey to celebrate the Hungarian Mass with Father Julius and to visit with those in attendance and to visit with hie relatives in the North Texas area.

Rev. Augustus (Augustine) was born in Obodoukwu, Nigeria and after graduating from high school at Saint Mary's Seminary in Umuowa, he then studied at the Custos Ecclesiae Seminary in Uzii. Rev. Augustus arrived in Hungary in 2000 and successfully studied and learned Hungarian. On June 29, 2004 he was ,ordained as a priest. His first parish was in Kecskem�

Our DFW area congregation was fortunate to have participated in this special mass. Read several articles about Rev. Augustus in the Hungarian press: Magyar Nemzet Article (Cikk) � Ember Article (Cikk) View a few more photos of the service.

The commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt was held in the Cistercian Preparatory School Cafeteria on Sunday, October 25, 2009. After the Hungarian mass, those in attendance gathered around the kopjafa in front of the Cistercian Abbey where all joined in singing the Hungarian National Anthem after a brief address and prayer by Father Julius.

The program in the cafeteria included a talk by Louis Ott about the meaning and effects of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt. A musical performance by Eniko Howard, Gyöngy Erödi Gábor Simonfalvi and also Edina Pastyik of the European Ensemble entertained the visitors with classical and Hungarian folk music, which inspired many to sing along. After an introduction by Péter Váli, Agnes Csifarry and Father Julius presented Enikő Walter Howard a plaque, gift card and flowers to recognize her many years of service to the Hungarian community by playing the organ during the Hungarian masses and performing at other musical events.

Mrs.Gail Szontagh shared several newspaper articles with others, concerning her husband László and other refugees who came to Texas after the 1956 uprising.

Hungary and other European countries are also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Hungary and the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

At a well attended meeting of the Fort Worth Sister Cities Budapest Committee on June 9th, at Grady's Restaurant, Louis Ott presented an interesting program reviewing the causes and consequences of the Trianon Treaty, ending World Ward I. This is known to us in the US as the Treaty of Versailles, but is still much discussed in former Eastern Europe, as its provisions greatly affected current politics.

To view the powerpoint presentation that Lou Ott presented click here.

The Fort Worth Sister Cities program , which has connections to 7 cities around the world, including Budapest, is actively involved in promoting cultural exchanges between its members.

On Armed Forces Day, May 16, U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson presented long-overdue medals to two local veterans in Richardson.

Started in 1949, the first Armed Forces Day was celebrated by parades, open houses, receptions and air shows. The purpose of Armed Forces Day is to honor Americans serving in the five services: the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard. Armed Forces Day is celebrated annually on the third Saturday of May; Armed Forces Week begins on the second Saturday of May and ends on the third Sunday of May.

Johnson presented Allen resident Bela Istvan Marton with the Navy Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Dominican Republic)."It was certainly an honor, especially when the medals were handed over by Johnson, who was a hero himself," Marton said.

Marton served in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1966. Born and raised in Hungary, Marton moved to America in 1957 and to Texas in 1969. Marton has called Allen home for 31 years. He served on the USS Stormes DD-780. The USS Stormes prevented Fidel Castro from shipping arms to the Dominican Republic. Marton was joined by his wife, Sandra, and daughter Kathrine.

Desert Storm veteran and Murphy resident Gregory Kostrzewa will receive the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal for his service between 1979 to 1982.

"I can't think of a better way to celebrate Armed Forces Day than to recognize those who wore the uniform for their honor, service and sacrifice," Johnson, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, said.

Reprinted from the Star Community Newspapers - May 21, 2009

Vasile Beluska�s first impressions of America were straight out of a John Wayne movie: Levis, cowboy boots, cowboy hats. And that was before he even got off the plane. Then it was big cars with fins on the back and cattle with long horns�a typical day in Amarillo, Texas, his first home in the United States. For the violinist and political refugee from Romania, life in the U.S. was a whole new world.

Now Beluska, music performance studies, is being honored for helping other musicians from Eastern Europe come to the U.S. and develop their own careers. Both in the U.S. and Europe, countless students and others have benefited from his generosity, service and talents.

With his family at his side, (including Eva and Jack Beluska of Hurst, TX), Mr Valile Beluska received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor on May 10, on that small outcropping in New York Harbor that symbolizes the journey and the arrival of so many seeking freedom and a chance to make something of their lives. The awards are sponsored by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO), a nonprofit organization created in 1984 on the conviction of its founder, William Denis Fugazy, that the diversity of the American people is what makes the U.S. great. NECO's stated mission is �to help create the world of the future today.� It does this through a number of philanthropic ventures.

Each year since 1986, NECO has sponsored the Ellis Island medals, which are presented to American citizens of diverse origins for their dedication to: community service, preserving the history of their ancestry group, supporting and defending American values, building bridges between diverse groups here and abroad, and sharing their personal and professional gifts for the benefit of humanity. Past recipients include six U.S. presidents, Nobel Prize winners, athletes, leaders of industry, artists and others whose work has made a lasting impact on humanity.

For more information visit the NECO website.

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1/21/2012 - 4 PM
Gypsy Music Concert
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Scott Hall, 1245 Bedford Rd, Bedford, TX 76021. Tickets: $25/adult, $15/12-18, and free under 12. Seating will be at tables so please bring cookies, pastries and soft drinks to share. For more information contact Peter Vali: peter.vali@verizon.net.

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Hungarian Language Mass at the Cistercian Abbey 3550 Cistercian Rd., Irving, Texas.

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"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths: secret love aff airs, betrayals inside the family circle, torture and brutalities alongside acts of stunning courage -- and, above all, deep family love. In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton, an accomplished journalist and former wife of Peter Jennings. exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State, using the secret police files on her journalist parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends and colleagues, and even their children's babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents, and love. Marton relates her eyewitness account of her mother's and father's arrests in Cold War Budapest and the terrible separation that followed. She describes the pain her parents endured in prison -- isolated from each other and their children. She reveals the secret war between Washington and Moscow, in which Marton and her family were pawns in a much larger game. See Amazon.com or your local library to read this fascinating book.

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This powerful, bold,thought-provoking film directed by Klaudia Kovacs about the 1956 Hungarian Revolt features, in archive footage or in person, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Otto von Habsburg, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Vassiliou, �p� G�, Gyula Horn, J�s Berecz and Imre Pozsgay.

In the Los Angeles debut in November of 2007, Torn from the Flag was screened in the "Milestones" section of the American Film Institute Festival along with Ingmar Bergman�s and Michelangelo Antonioni�s films.
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