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Recent content by Dulcie

  1. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    About 34 km or half hour drive by car, 1.5 hours by public transport.
  2. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    The closest to me is an Ethiopian orthodox church, I don't know if I should go there, I'm not African so it might not be for people like me. A bit further out is a Syrian orthodox church, and further up is a Coptic orthodox, Indian orthodox and a Serbian Orthodox church. Then you hit the city...
  3. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    Thankyou so much, talking to other people makes it clearer than thinking about it.
  4. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    How do you say you won't come again without being rude? I think I will email. Maybe just walk past and see what happens. I've seen livestreams of orthodox churches. I'll try to see if there's a livestream of an Orthodox church from Perth. That feels superficial and wrong, but I may be wrong on...
  5. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    I don't have a car, and the train line near me is shutdown for a couple years for reconstruction. I'm willing to go anywhere in the metro area so long as I get there on time. I don't know the polite way to say "I don't want to come here" without feeling like I'm being rude. I don't like ghosting...
  6. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    I'm curious about the divine liturgy but going so quickly from outside to inside surrounded by people I don't know in something new to me makes me a bit scared to go. I've seen a livestream online so I kinda know what I'll see, but previews aren't much. I'm just so shy, I have autism as well...
  7. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    I wish the Polish orthodox jurisdiction had a church in Australia, I'm Polish on my mother's side and it may sound overly simplistic but I could just go there. Perhaps it's better that I have to make a decision. Not easy for an overthinker. The Jesus Complex is a real thing, tends to be...
  8. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    Respectfully, may I ask more about this controversial decision? If you prefer not to mention it in the forums, is there a web page, video, blog, newsletter, etc that you could direct me to, so I might better understand what you are referring to?
  9. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    If I may ask, what was the shift beyond thinking and prayer to? How were you led? Also, are there any prayers that you think would help me in my search?
  10. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    Are those questions I should be asking or are you asking me those questions? And what do you mean by orientation to the service needed?
  11. Dulcie

    Hesitation is crushing me

    In 2022 I found the band Hanson, and discovered Zac is a deacon in the orthodox church (forget which jurisdiction). One day the thought occurred to me "all this time you've been running from orthodoxy", as a cradle catholic heterdox convert it was not a welcome thought. Offensive as it was, I...