Thank you for this very careful portrayl of memoir on the Holy Mountain. I am a married Orthodox Christian with 4 children from America, who has traveled to Mt. Athos, and stayed there on an extended solitude at the Simonos Petra Monastary. It was the most absolute face of my bounce and I got to be acquainted with the very monks your 60 minutes play interviewed. Your portrayl of their person of praying and Holiness was very meticulous and respectful. My renown to your documentary.
Just as an aside for all those who beef about skirt not being allowed on the Holy Mountain and on Simonos Petra, there is a sister convent just faint the Holy Mountain where men are not allowed where helpmeet can go on retreat. It is called Ormelia. One of the monks that you showed in your segment has a son who happens to be the ranking liturgist at Simonopetra. His trouble and strife is a nun at the convent of Ormelia and his daughter just happens to be the Abyss ( Mother Superior in Western terms). There is similarity in Orthodox monasticism and the Holy Mountain's eviction of gal is in no aspect alleged to be a put down of woman, but a modus vivendi of maintaining an hoary psychological practice.
It is no personal than the practices of Benedictine and Trappist monastaries in the Roman Catholic Church. Monks talk themselves as the psychic strange forces or shock troops in the unseen warfare. It is not a work for all, or even more many. Yet by maintaining a resolute vigil of service they lift up all those who don't cognizant of enough to pray for themselves. Monasticism traces it's roots back to Christ himself and before, who went off into the defect to be tempted for 40 days closely after being baptised late to starting his ministry.
It is also found before Christ in the practices of the Essenes and the sons of Eliajah and Elisha his partisan in the Old Testament.
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