A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Prayer of the Sacred Perogi

May Thy Perogi dwell always in our bellies!
May Thy Sour Cream ever flow over the dough of our souls!
O fillings of our Perogi, Thou givest flavour to all things by the cheese and potatoes of Thy goodness!
I will not go until Thy Perogi has strengthened me, O Chef!
May the Perogi of The Plate be the King of my belly!
Blessed be Perogi. Amen.

Perogi

A word of thanks to parishioner Burningbridges for submitting this image of the Sacred Perogi to the tattoo galleries.

Comments

54 responses to “Prayer of the Sacred Perogi”

  1. Someone of Polish descent Avatar
    Someone of Polish descent

    It’s spelled “Pierogi.” Just so you know.

  2. Someone of Polish descent Avatar
    Someone of Polish descent

    It’s spelled “Pierogi.” Just so you know.

  3. Someone of Polish descent Avatar
    Someone of Polish descent

    It’s spelled “Pierogi.” Just so you know.

  4. Mrs. Penguin Avatar
    Mrs. Penguin

    That’s really cute. I have a real weakness for unusual tattoos.

    Also, I happen to love pierogies.

  5. Mrs. Penguin Avatar
    Mrs. Penguin

    That’s really cute. I have a real weakness for unusual tattoos.

    Also, I happen to love pierogies.

  6. Mrs. Penguin Avatar
    Mrs. Penguin

    That’s really cute. I have a real weakness for unusual tattoos.

    Also, I happen to love pierogies.

  7. bLast0 Avatar
    bLast0

    pierogi filled with keilbasa and sauerkraut are the absolute best kind. MMMM…

  8. bLast0 Avatar
    bLast0

    pierogi filled with keilbasa and sauerkraut are the absolute best kind. MMMM…

  9. bLast0 Avatar
    bLast0

    pierogi filled with keilbasa and sauerkraut are the absolute best kind. MMMM…

  10. Rob Avatar

    @Someone: I grew up spelling it that way and I lived in an area with a lot of Polish immigrants. Maybe it’s a Polish Canadian thing.

  11. Rob Avatar

    @Someone: I grew up spelling it that way and I lived in an area with a lot of Polish immigrants. Maybe it’s a Polish Canadian thing.

  12. Rob Avatar

    @Someone: I grew up spelling it that way and I lived in an area with a lot of Polish immigrants. Maybe it’s a Polish Canadian thing.

  13. quinnn Avatar
    quinnn

    this person needs to come to next year’s pierogi fest 🙂

  14. quinnn Avatar
    quinnn

    this person needs to come to next year’s pierogi fest 🙂

  15. quinnn Avatar
    quinnn

    this person needs to come to next year’s pierogi fest 🙂

  16. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    Looks like SOMEONE just wants to argue under the guise of enlightenment?
    I figure that its likely an interchangable spelling much like Chanukah vs Hanukkah, a personal preference depending on how elitist you want to sound, and sorbet vs sherbert just sayin’ I am looking at a bag of PEROGIES right now, and if I had sour cream I’d be eating them

  17. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    Looks like SOMEONE just wants to argue under the guise of enlightenment?
    I figure that its likely an interchangable spelling much like Chanukah vs Hanukkah, a personal preference depending on how elitist you want to sound, and sorbet vs sherbert just sayin’ I am looking at a bag of PEROGIES right now, and if I had sour cream I’d be eating them

  18. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    Looks like SOMEONE just wants to argue under the guise of enlightenment?
    I figure that its likely an interchangable spelling much like Chanukah vs Hanukkah, a personal preference depending on how elitist you want to sound, and sorbet vs sherbert just sayin’ I am looking at a bag of PEROGIES right now, and if I had sour cream I’d be eating them

  19. Dillolon Avatar
    Dillolon

    kendall, sorbet and sherbet are totally different things.

    And what the hell is a perogie?

  20. Dillolon Avatar
    Dillolon

    kendall, sorbet and sherbet are totally different things.

    And what the hell is a perogie?

  21. Dillolon Avatar
    Dillolon

    kendall, sorbet and sherbet are totally different things.

    And what the hell is a perogie?

  22. Ryan Rebirth Avatar
    Ryan Rebirth

    mmm Pierogi’s You have to half half kraut and bacon and half potato and cheese fried golden brown in butter and smothered in sour cream… And another Polish and classically trained Chef perspective They are pierogies, and perogi is actually a bastardized version of the word and also a brand name of a bagged variety,

    kendall sorbet and sherbet are to very different things..Sorbet is frozen or iced fruit juice and sherbet is both a fizzy powder or a drink…Or a frozen dessert made with fruit juice, dairy and sometimes eggs,

    Either way this Tattoo is a masterpiece….

  23. Ryan Rebirth Avatar
    Ryan Rebirth

    mmm Pierogi’s You have to half half kraut and bacon and half potato and cheese fried golden brown in butter and smothered in sour cream… And another Polish and classically trained Chef perspective They are pierogies, and perogi is actually a bastardized version of the word and also a brand name of a bagged variety,

    kendall sorbet and sherbet are to very different things..Sorbet is frozen or iced fruit juice and sherbet is both a fizzy powder or a drink…Or a frozen dessert made with fruit juice, dairy and sometimes eggs,

    Either way this Tattoo is a masterpiece….

  24. Ryan Rebirth Avatar
    Ryan Rebirth

    mmm Pierogi’s You have to half half kraut and bacon and half potato and cheese fried golden brown in butter and smothered in sour cream… And another Polish and classically trained Chef perspective They are pierogies, and perogi is actually a bastardized version of the word and also a brand name of a bagged variety,

    kendall sorbet and sherbet are to very different things..Sorbet is frozen or iced fruit juice and sherbet is both a fizzy powder or a drink…Or a frozen dessert made with fruit juice, dairy and sometimes eggs,

    Either way this Tattoo is a masterpiece….

  25. zobro Avatar
    zobro

    Pierogies, red cabbage, and kielbasa… I NEED.

  26. zobro Avatar
    zobro

    Pierogies, red cabbage, and kielbasa… I NEED.

  27. zobro Avatar
    zobro

    Pierogies, red cabbage, and kielbasa… I NEED.

  28. Someone of Polish descent Avatar
    Someone of Polish descent

    Or maybe someone is just proud of their heritage, and since SOMEONE is fluent in Polish, maybe they know the correct spelling of the word.

    Just sayin’. No need to be a jerk about it, Kendall.

  29. Someone of Polish descent Avatar
    Someone of Polish descent

    Or maybe someone is just proud of their heritage, and since SOMEONE is fluent in Polish, maybe they know the correct spelling of the word.

    Just sayin’. No need to be a jerk about it, Kendall.

  30. Someone of Polish descent Avatar
    Someone of Polish descent

    Or maybe someone is just proud of their heritage, and since SOMEONE is fluent in Polish, maybe they know the correct spelling of the word.

    Just sayin’. No need to be a jerk about it, Kendall.

  31. Rob Avatar

    Ok, enough of the spelling debate. Checking the wiki entry there are around 10 different spelling variations.

    All that matters is the love of perogies!

  32. Rob Avatar

    Ok, enough of the spelling debate. Checking the wiki entry there are around 10 different spelling variations.

    All that matters is the love of perogies!

  33. Rob Avatar

    Ok, enough of the spelling debate. Checking the wiki entry there are around 10 different spelling variations.

    All that matters is the love of perogies!

  34. honey fanny Avatar

    pierogi love! <3
    it is spelled PIEROGI in polish, and it’s plural already so you can’t say PIEROGIES 🙂

  35. honey fanny Avatar

    pierogi love! <3
    it is spelled PIEROGI in polish, and it’s plural already so you can’t say PIEROGIES 🙂

  36. honey fanny Avatar

    pierogi love! <3
    it is spelled PIEROGI in polish, and it’s plural already so you can’t say PIEROGIES 🙂

  37. k. Avatar
    k.

    i’m from Poland and it’s PIEROGI 🙂

  38. k. Avatar
    k.

    i’m from Poland and it’s PIEROGI 🙂

  39. k. Avatar
    k.

    i’m from Poland and it’s PIEROGI 🙂

  40. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    @ 7. I seriously was a Sobey’s tonight looking at frozen dessert treats, and it seems that fruit based ice treat things in a bucket are called either/or @8. I am reading fruit and frozen in both of your answers @10, As a Canadian maybe it IS a Canadian spelling thing, but why would a company allow for a typo? *rolls eyes* can’t be a single canadian pole, right? or else we’d spell it right

  41. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    @ 7. I seriously was a Sobey’s tonight looking at frozen dessert treats, and it seems that fruit based ice treat things in a bucket are called either/or @8. I am reading fruit and frozen in both of your answers @10, As a Canadian maybe it IS a Canadian spelling thing, but why would a company allow for a typo? *rolls eyes* can’t be a single canadian pole, right? or else we’d spell it right

  42. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    @ 7. I seriously was a Sobey’s tonight looking at frozen dessert treats, and it seems that fruit based ice treat things in a bucket are called either/or @8. I am reading fruit and frozen in both of your answers @10, As a Canadian maybe it IS a Canadian spelling thing, but why would a company allow for a typo? *rolls eyes* can’t be a single canadian pole, right? or else we’d spell it right

  43. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    @ 7. I seriously was a Sobey’s tonight looking at frozen dessert treats, and it seems that fruit based ice treat things in a bucket are called either/or @8. I am reading fruit and frozen in both of your answers @10, As a Canadian maybe it IS a Canadian spelling thing, but why would a company allow for a typo? *rolls eyes* can’t be a single canadian pole, right? or else we’d spell it right

  44. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    @ 7. I seriously was a Sobey’s tonight looking at frozen dessert treats, and it seems that fruit based ice treat things in a bucket are called either/or @8. I am reading fruit and frozen in both of your answers @10, As a Canadian maybe it IS a Canadian spelling thing, but why would a company allow for a typo? *rolls eyes* can’t be a single canadian pole, right? or else we’d spell it right

  45. kendall Avatar
    kendall

    @ 7. I seriously was a Sobey’s tonight looking at frozen dessert treats, and it seems that fruit based ice treat things in a bucket are called either/or @8. I am reading fruit and frozen in both of your answers @10, As a Canadian maybe it IS a Canadian spelling thing, but why would a company allow for a typo? *rolls eyes* can’t be a single canadian pole, right? or else we’d spell it right

  46. pee D 3 Avatar
    pee D 3

    i just feel the need to express my disbelief at how anyone would take a the sacredness of the Perogi in vain!!
    as the child of Perogi parents and a mixed Perogi heritage i am deeply disturbed by the lack of sauerkraut and mustard!
    please look into your hearts and find the Perogi in each one of you…

  47. pee D 3 Avatar
    pee D 3

    i just feel the need to express my disbelief at how anyone would take a the sacredness of the Perogi in vain!!
    as the child of Perogi parents and a mixed Perogi heritage i am deeply disturbed by the lack of sauerkraut and mustard!
    please look into your hearts and find the Perogi in each one of you…

  48. pee D 3 Avatar
    pee D 3

    i just feel the need to express my disbelief at how anyone would take a the sacredness of the Perogi in vain!!
    as the child of Perogi parents and a mixed Perogi heritage i am deeply disturbed by the lack of sauerkraut and mustard!
    please look into your hearts and find the Perogi in each one of you…

  49. Jeremy Avatar
    Jeremy

    Tattoo designed and done by Savannah Brayton http://www.facebook.com/#!/savannahsharkattack

  50. Jeremy Avatar
    Jeremy

    Tattoo designed and done by Savannah Brayton http://www.facebook.com/#!/savannahsharkattack

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