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Recent content by FrThadd

  1. FrThadd

    Healing Nearness

    I grew up in CA and am familiar with most of what and where you've mentioned :-) I've spent time at St. Herman's monastery and Vashon Island too! Glory to God!
  2. FrThadd

    Healing Nearness

    Thank you for your input! I agree (and I even have DC friends!). My gut feeling is that, after ethnocentrism / jurisdictionalism, the U.S. Church suffers from being too city oriented / influenced. Pan-orthodox mapping shows this clearly (orthodoxreality.org) with most parishes being in...
  3. FrThadd

    Healing Nearness

    Thank you! Appreciate your input and observations!
  4. FrThadd

    Parish Commute

    Thank you and God bless you! When a person has to travel a long ways to church, or has health problems that makes it difficult, you are BLESSED with a unique asceticism. And when you are able to push through and make it to church, God will bless you more than usual. I have friends and family...
  5. FrThadd

    Healing Nearness

    I agree. Another major issue holding the Church back is not having enough clergy, and care for clergy. I know a psychologist who was given access to St. Vladimir's Seminary student files and over time 92% of their ordained graduates left the priesthood. A recent study of the GOA (who has a...
  6. FrThadd

    Parish Commute

    https://www.google.com/maps/search/Nebraska+orthodox+church/@41.4401527,-96.9371791,109322m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDgyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
  7. FrThadd

    Parish Commute

    There's actually a few: Lincoln, Omaha, Bayard, maybe more. I know the priest in Omaha and he is great. Did you take the survey above?
  8. FrThadd

    Parish Commute

    Greetings all! Just wanting input on how far you all live from church and friends. Many community studies suggest that 10 minutes travel is ideal, but there's never been a study of why this is, or even if it is true. So I'm doing the first Orthodox study of believers' proximity to church and...
  9. FrThadd

    Healing Nearness

    Unknown to most of us American Orthodox, the huge majority of us live way too far from the parish we attend and our Orthodox Christian friends (God bless you all that are close!). Many community studies suggest that 10 minutes travel is ideal, but there's never been a study of why this is, or...