Kletschka Publishing

08/26/2024

Harold Kletschka would be 100 years old today, August 26. His beloved sister and the last surviving member of his immediate family, Barbara Kletschka is with Bob Conroy offering her mass for him and asking Harold’s intercession for the efficacious results and reception of The Holy Trinity Artwork and Symposium project. https://www.christendom.edu/2024/04/19/cardinal-burke-and-fellow-theologians-deepen-understanding-of-the-trinity-at-christendom-graduate-school-symposium/

Kletschka Publishing promotes the life, values and work of Harold D. Kletschka, M.D. his biography,

08/14/2024

St Maximilian Kolbe’s writings inspired an original work on an artistic representation of The Holy Trinity.

04/24/2024

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04/23/2024

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03/17/2024

Kletschka Publishing now also posts as The Kletschka Foundation.

02/27/2024

Front Royal Virginia art exhibit Theology of the Most Holy Trinity In Oil on Canvas.

02/13/2024

As Lent approaches...
There was a moment when Moses mustered up the courage to ask God what his name is. God was gracious enough to answer, and the name Moses received from God is recorded in the original Hebrew as YHWH.
Over time an “a” and an “e” have been added in there to get YaHWeH.
But some scholars and Rabi’s have noted that the letters YHWH represent the sound of breathing, or aspirated consonants. When pronounced without intervening vowels, it actually sounds like breathing.
YH (inhale): WH (exhale).
So a baby’s first cry, his first breath, speaks the name of God.
A deep sigh calls His name – or a groan or gasp that is too heavy for mere words.
Even an atheist unknowingly speaks His name, unaware that their very breath gives lifelong acknowledgment to God.
Likewise, when a person leaves this earth her last breath remains on this Earth, when God’s name no longer fills their lungs.
So when I can’t utter anything else, is my cry calling out His name?
Being alive means I speak His name constantly.
So, is it heard the loudest when I’m the quietest?
In sadness, we breathe heavy sighs.
In joy, our lungs feel almost like they will burst.
In fear we hold our breath and have to be told to breathe slowly to help us calm down.
When we’re about to do something hard, we take a deep breath to find our courage.
When I think about it, breathing is giving him praise. Even in the hardest moments!
This is so beautiful and fills me with emotion every time I grasp the thought. God chose to give himself a name that we can’t help but speak every moment we’re alive.
All of us, always, everywhere.
Waking, sleeping, breathing, with the name of God on our lips.

01/07/2024

Harold Kletschka, inventor of the completely implantable Artificial Heart (that he patented but was not able to bring to market prior to his own death) was a 'Wise Man' of his day. The Three Wise Men who followed the star and shared their search and progress with King Herod were the scientists of their day. They were not of the Jewish faith but were Gentiles. Yet the astronomical realities they observed each in his own perspective saw the phenomenon as an invitation to follow the science - an actual star - and be led to the most extraordinary event of their lives and in all of human history.

There are similarities between Harold's quest for the fully implantable artificial heart and the Three Wise Men's quest to find the one to whom the star pointed. Harold and his dutiful and loyal associate and the co-inventor of the BioPump, Edson Rafferty came across those desiring to subvert their mission. Harold had to eventually return to his Artificial Heart project via a different route because an evil one in power took his company from him. But Harold was not deterred.

The BioPump made safer open heart surgery possible and to this day is the key component in Medtronic's heart lung machine that has been used in nearly 70 million live altering surgeries around the world. To Change the Heart of Man is the book that chronicles the details of his sojourn.