Damian Prus is a pastor in the Burgenland Großhöflein and Müllendorf. When he does not pray rosary or prepares Sunday sermon, he grabs his saxophone and transforms the parsonage into a cool jazz club into a mood. The portrait.
When the church bells fly back to Rome today, not only do the organ in Großhöflein, but also the saxophone sounds, which usually penetrate through the parsonage at a late hour. As soon as the evening is read and the pastoral work is done for the day, Pastor Damian Prus (51) likes to do jazz musicians and like John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Stan Getz have once moored his golden wind instrument.
“But it will end until the Holy Saturday. In the coming days, Christians will not listen and make music around the world and make music and use the quiet time to put in the inner contemplation,” says the spiritual, who grew up in the Polish Kielce as the son of a technical director and an accountant and already knew he wants to become a priest.
A chaplain had a major influence on his life
At that time, a young alms alias named Gregor met Ziarnowski, who met Prus when he met Altarming. “He played football with our boys and founded a church band with which we even performed at festivals. So I discovered a feeling of community and the love for music and learned guitar, baritone horn and train trombone.
When Ziarnowski went to Congo and France as a missionary, Prus, who studied theology after high school and was initiated in Poland in 1999, contacted him. Even after the transfer from Ziarnowski to Jois, he kept visiting him again in Burgenland. He also got stuck here 18 years ago. First he was a priority priest in Jois, Winden, Kaisersteinbruch and Neusiedl am See, later a predecessor in Kirchfidisch, Machendorf and Hannersdorf as well as Dean’s Head and Dean in Recnitz and Eisenstadt.
Useful in Pandemie
But how did he play the saxophone? “That was a coincidence,” he says, and talks about a parish qualification course in Salzburg, in which he met a priest who already dominated the instrument. At home, Prus bought himself a saxophone. How valuable this investment was shown was shown shortly later, when the Corona Pandemie broke out and he could not practice his work because of the Lockdowns.
“I am used to being among people. Suddenly I was isolated and had a lot of free time. He says. And why did he fall for jazz?” Because Jazz is like math – logically in itself. But you can also improvise beautifully and express all your emotions. That’s great “, enthusiastic prus.
This cuddly song did it to him
In the meantime, he controls a large repertoire and already performed on rock fairs and jam sessions with the band of the Joseph Haydn Private School. By the way, his favorite song is “Only we two of us”: “I could play it a thousand times a day!” But for whom? “Well for my Jack Russell terrier ‘Volvo’ and me. He is the only one who can listen to me.”
If you have become curious, you can stand on your window at night on the Holy Saturday – there would be a good thing for the Easter – Opstanding of Jesus Christ, namely Leonhard Cohens “Hallelujah”. Or he is still tolerated until 10 May. Prus with the “Wirtshaus Singing” in the parish hall in Pöttelsdorf has its next big appearance.
Source: Krone
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