Post by chestertonian on May 12, 2016 19:34:49 GMT -5
i agree that moving out to the sticks, homeschooling a 17 passenger van load of children and living off the grid seems to be the Trad American Dream
i think it is because there is a lot of talk about the Benedict option and the idea of setting up intentional communities cemtered around a pre-existing trad monastery or chapel. it's a great idea.... i think that if i had my health i would have already driven our 17 passenger van out to yenemsvelt and built a log cabin with 5 sets of bunk beds
but we are not in a position to just go as we please... we are not a standalone nuclear family and depend on extended family for help with keeping our family afloat--not necessarily financially but i need constant medical care which my mom and siblings do for me, and they also help with childcare which keeps our family operating costs down. my mother also helps with homeschooling. so if we were to live in the sticks we would not have that support and i could not imagine that strangers from somerandom trad community would be willing to do what my family does for me--for free. blood runs thicker than water.
So we are still in brooklyn. there are so many beautiful churches here but the NO establishment is depressing with beautiful historic churches being sold and parochial schools closing left and right. we have trad masses but very few trad families. my wife inquired about first communion instruction from the SSPX priest here and he said that they had no classes because they have no children at the SSPX mission. so we just hack catechism at home because i dont trust any of the diocesan religious ed classes. for school we have kept him at home this year for K but next year we might have to send him to public school becausetherewill be a baby to take care of too. Sending your kids to public school is basically the trad equivalent of dumping your children into a cave filled with venomous spiders, snakes, and honey badgers, so we feel llike horrible failures even though it's a lot to ask of my mother to homeschool our son, care for a baby, and care for a medically fragile adult all at the same time
what i do like about NYC is there is a lot of history here. st. elizabeth ann seton was baptizedhere..millions of catholic immigrants passed through here. we have beautiful old churches and under neath the novus ordo felt banners there is a lot of beauty and history. the other day i was at the russian orthodox cathedral and it is breaathtakingly beautiful. with the industry my wife works in there are not too many places that would be comparable salary wise and job opportunity wise. we have hospitals that actually know how to treat my medical condition which cannot be said of rural hospitals. it's also where my wife and i were born and raised. so despite the fact that there are a lot of challenges of living here i do like it because the city is my home, whether i like it or not.
i think it is because there is a lot of talk about the Benedict option and the idea of setting up intentional communities cemtered around a pre-existing trad monastery or chapel. it's a great idea.... i think that if i had my health i would have already driven our 17 passenger van out to yenemsvelt and built a log cabin with 5 sets of bunk beds
but we are not in a position to just go as we please... we are not a standalone nuclear family and depend on extended family for help with keeping our family afloat--not necessarily financially but i need constant medical care which my mom and siblings do for me, and they also help with childcare which keeps our family operating costs down. my mother also helps with homeschooling. so if we were to live in the sticks we would not have that support and i could not imagine that strangers from somerandom trad community would be willing to do what my family does for me--for free. blood runs thicker than water.
So we are still in brooklyn. there are so many beautiful churches here but the NO establishment is depressing with beautiful historic churches being sold and parochial schools closing left and right. we have trad masses but very few trad families. my wife inquired about first communion instruction from the SSPX priest here and he said that they had no classes because they have no children at the SSPX mission. so we just hack catechism at home because i dont trust any of the diocesan religious ed classes. for school we have kept him at home this year for K but next year we might have to send him to public school becausetherewill be a baby to take care of too. Sending your kids to public school is basically the trad equivalent of dumping your children into a cave filled with venomous spiders, snakes, and honey badgers, so we feel llike horrible failures even though it's a lot to ask of my mother to homeschool our son, care for a baby, and care for a medically fragile adult all at the same time
what i do like about NYC is there is a lot of history here. st. elizabeth ann seton was baptizedhere..millions of catholic immigrants passed through here. we have beautiful old churches and under neath the novus ordo felt banners there is a lot of beauty and history. the other day i was at the russian orthodox cathedral and it is breaathtakingly beautiful. with the industry my wife works in there are not too many places that would be comparable salary wise and job opportunity wise. we have hospitals that actually know how to treat my medical condition which cannot be said of rural hospitals. it's also where my wife and i were born and raised. so despite the fact that there are a lot of challenges of living here i do like it because the city is my home, whether i like it or not.