Women to be allowed in Mount Athos soon?

[NadirGP]

Hilandar to be visited by women soon?

A group of female MPs of the European Parliament asked Greece recently to abolish a regulation, according to which women are strictly forbidden to visit the Holy Mountain, its twenty monasteries and 2,500 monks.

The request says that the law “violates gender equality and introduces discrimination against women, which is not consistent with democracy”. At the same time, ads appeared in Serbian media, offering to take women on the “pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain” at the price of EUR 100 – 200. In this way, a question of women going to the Holy Mountain and the monastery of Hilandar was opened, which some of the NGOs in Serbia want to start.

“Ideas of opening the Holy Mountain for women, which occasionally appear, are apparently a part of the frontal attack of the new world order on the Eastern Christianity under the guise of abolishing traditional communities, introducing democracy and developing modern tourist business. This comes from feminist circles in the U.S., and LGBT community, which have unlimited resources and simply destroy the Christian and Orthodox tradition under the excuse of some concern for equality,” said Veljko Djuric Misina, church historian.

It is known that women can not set foot on the Holy Mountain, because the Holy Mother of God forbid it, when she told in 442 the daughter of Theodosius the Great, as she was visiting the monastery of Vatopedi, to step down. Since then, no women have been allowed to walk in the Virgin’s garden.

Source: http://inserbia.info/news/2013/11/hilan ... omen-soon/

What will be next?

[Barbara]

What the Serbian historian spoke was so true and helpful. I didn't realize that these groups have
"unlimited resources".
That is SINISTER in itself. Think of the damage they can wreak everywhere there are weak people who
let them dictate new laws of ANY type throughout the entire world.

This attempted invasion of Mt Athos is UNSPEAKABLY evil.

I recall when this topic came up some years earlier, a Catholic European woman spoke up and
said "I don't feel any need to disturb the prayers and privacy of the monks !"

That was a valuable testimony to the fact that nearly all European women would not
care about being "excluded" from the famous bastion of Greek monasticism.

Only these extremely fringe groups would be so outrageously aggressive and insolent in the face of
2000 years' tradition.

[StephenS]

Unfortunately, I understand some on the Holy Mountain have accepted funds for the upkeep of artifacts and buildings. Then comes the sting, activists then question whether the recipient meets the criteria of offering access to all. And these same activists will not rest 'til they prevail. And difficult to defend in the 'value system' of today's EU society with the single word 'equality' over-riding everything.

[NadirGP]

Unfortunately, I understand some on the Holy Mountain have accepted funds for the upkeep of artifacts and buildings. Then comes the sting, activists then question whether the recipient meets the criteria of offering access to all. And these same activists will not rest 'til they prevail. And difficult to defend in the 'value system' of today's EU society with the single word 'equality' over-riding everything.

StephenS,

So that is the “sting…” You get the funds from the EU for whatever reason and then you get hooked-up with them for good.

Obviously, the people on the Holy Mountain forgot what Jesus said:

Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. Matthew 10:16