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Day: July 16, 2023

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Ummm, Where Have You Been?

Sometime in late 2021 I lost access to this site. At the time it was being hosted by Media Temple. Media Temple made a whole series of rather complex server changes and changed DNS settings for websites. They also stopped providing easy to access support. I sat on the phone many an evening, but at three hours still waiting would give up.

It seems these moves by Media Temple were in anticipation of their buy-out/acquisition by GoDaddy.

I did still have access to my files and backups, so I downloaded everything. I changed my hosting to Dreamhost and even moved my registration from Register to Dreamhost just to get everything in one place.

We started by trying out multiple DNS refreshes, yet the URL and its hosting were not propagating. That took quite awhile to resolve. Once that was addressed, all I could get to was a “Stay Tuned/Coming Soon” website and if I clicked on the link there, a cPanel site.

This went on for… well months. I thought, maybe it was the old Media Temple encryption certificate taking me back there. Not really possible, but who knows. Then I thought, maybe if I just completely destroy the Media Temple account that would resolve it. No luck. Went down several ‘help’ rabbit holes without success.

Finally, a really great tech at Dreamhost helped me out. Cherry E. and I discovered a problem by running traceroute and ping from my computer. I flushed the caches on my computer and found some old IP’s in my hosts file. Cleaning those up finally got me back in. I restored my backups for which I used and continue to use Updraft Plus. Easy – which was great. Some settings needed restoration. The right Template had to be re-set.

I also realize that people, besides me, were likely getting to the site and seeing no activity, wondered what happened. While I have been regularly posting on Facebook, YouTube, and my parish website — Holy Name of Jesus in Schenectady, NY I missed sharing here. I am happy to be back.

For now, I am posting things I missed that I would have ordinarily have shared from September 2021 to today. I will take a bit of time.

PNCC

Rt. Rev. Ś+P Jarosław “Jerry” Rafalko

I am deeply saddened by the sudden and unexpected death of the beloved Bishop of the Western Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church. On behalf of myself and my family we offer prayer for the repose of his soul and for Jesus’ comforting presence among all who grieve — his wife Leslie, the people of the Western Diocese, and all in our Holy Church.

His obituary from the Nelson Funeral Home:

Right Reverend Jaroslaw Rafalko, Bishop Ordinary of the Western Diocese, Polish National Catholic Church, Pastor of All Saints Cathedral Polish National Catholic Church.  Beloved husband of 33 years to Leslie ‘Wieslawa’; cherished son of the late Wanda and Jan Rafalko; loving brother of Elzbieta (Jozef) Wasilewski and the late Janina (Stanislaw) Serwin; dearest uncle of Anna (Dominik) Dym, Artur (Cortney Johnson), Piotr (Wioletta) Gryko, Michal (Iwona) Gryko and Grzegorz (Beata) Gryko; great-uncle of Aleksander Dym, Damian Johnson Wasilewski and Piotr Gryko; dear son-in-law of Eugenia and the late Stefan Czaban; loved brother-in-law of Barbara Czaban and Alicja (Mikolaj) Gryko.  Jaroslaw was ordained to priesthood, June 8, 1980 in Bialystok, Poland. Appointed Pastor of Holy Trinity Parish PNCC in Kewanee, IL in 1990. Appointed Administrative Senior of the Northcentral Seniorate of Western Diocese PNCC in August of 2016. Elected Bishop of the Western Diocese PNCC October 25, 2019. Consecration as Bishop at St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Cathedral, Scranton, Pennsylvania on Sept. 14, 2020 and Installed as Bishop at All Saints Cathedral Parish in Chicago, IL on October 3, 2020.  Lying in State, Sunday, July 23, 2023 from 3 to 7 p.m., Monday, July 24th from 2 to 8 p.m. with Holy Vespers celebrated at 7 p.m. and Tuesday, July 25th from 9 a.m. until time of Mass, 10:30 a.m., at All Saints Cathedral PNCC 9201 W. Higgins Ave., Chicago, IL 60631. Interment Private.  In lieu of flowers, donations will be used to benefit a future scholarship in the Bishop’s name or a donation to the Youth Fund of the Polish National Catholic Church would be appreciated. 

Eternal rest grant unto Thy servant O Lord and may the perpetual light shine upon him.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.

Wieczny odpoczynek racz im dać, Panie, a światłość wiekuista niechaj im świeci.
Niech odpoczywają w pokoju. Amen.

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