Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!

Creating a blog site only shows intent; responding to postings in a timely manner shows value and courtesy.

I understand and agree that no responses should or would be posted from Lazarus Saturday through Bright Monday, but that period came to an end two weeks ago. Are you the only person who has the authority to respond to postings on behalf of the PCC? If so, it appears that your workload is currently too great and you should ask His Grace +NIKON to bless the delegation of responding to these postings to other members of the PCC.

Waiting up to a month to receive an email is unconscionable disrespect for the sender. A major point to using email is to avoid the delays inherent in traditional mail. It would take less time to write a traditional mail message, send copies to the members of the PPC via USPS, and receive the traditional written responses via USPS than the current PCC email set up as you have described it. Why solicit input to the PCC via email if it is going to take potentially a month or more before the sender receives an acknowledgment of receipt of the message, let alone a response to the substance of the message? It appears that the members of the Central Church Administration, as well as the members of the PCC, have very little understanding of the capabilities of the communication technologies available to assist them in their efforts. This situation does not bode well for the preparations for the 15th AAC, the proper administration of the national church, or the healing of the OCA.

In the mean time, might I be so presumptuous as to offer a suggestion? If this blog is indeed important, would it be possible to respond to comments and queries here more often? If an answer to a query isn’t available, an immediate response saying, “I don’t have an answer to that, but I’ll find out and let you know” would be more encouraging than silence.

The PCC does, indeed, see the value of this blog. If they did not, it would not have been created. In response to a couple of the above questions:

(1) proposed and confirmed sites for town hall meetings can be found in the May 20 blog posting on the May PCC meeting. How these meetings will be publicized in the various locations is beyond the control of the PCC, except to ask that local clergy and lay leadership in the various regions to encourage the faithful there to take part in them.

(2) AAC emails are received off site – i.e., not at the Chancery. Normally, the PCC is sent a digest of emails on a monthly basis. I will check to see what happened with the April 9 email.

In our Risen Lord,
Fr. Andrew Jarmus

It seems obvious to me that the members of the Pre-Conciliar Commission (PCC) don’t have an understanding of the potential importance of this blog site to make the planning for the 15th AAC easier and less confrontational. It appears that more than 3 weeks has passed since the last response from anyone associated with the PCC or the Central Church Administration (CCA). And they wonder why the laity hold the PCC and the CCA in such low esteem …

Is there any intent to respond to people who send in their thoughts?