The news agency agioritikovima.gr reported that Abp. of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams visiting the Holy Mountain. Keep in mind that this is an ecumenical visit to the pressure that the Holy Mountain as most powerful guardian the holy Orthodox faith and the Holy Tradition have to change.
“One of the hardest yet most important lessons the different Christian communities today must learn is that they cannot live without each other: no single one of them in isolation possesses the entirety of the Gospel” of Christ. That was how the Anglican leader Dr Rowan Williams introduced his reflection on how the witness of monastic life can offer a key to overcoming the divisions between Christians today." - 14 MARCH 2012 ROWAN WILLIAM'S HOMILY IN ROME ON MONASTIC VIRTUE AND ECUMENICAL HOPE
The Holy Mountain welcomes the leader of the Anglican Church
Four-day visit to Mount Athos will hold the ecclesiastical leader of the Anglican Church, Archbishop Kantavrygias, Doctor-Doctor, Rowan Williams, according to information agioritikovima.gr
The Archbishop will arrive at Mount Athos in the morning of next Thursday, and in order to visit the Monasteries, Xenophon, and Simonopetra where he will visit the Monastery of Pantokrator and possibly other monasteries of Mount Athos. he will meet with the political governor of Mount Athos, Mr. Aristos Kasmiroglou.
Mr. Williams from the Mount Athos will depart on Monday, April 30.
Please remember that, last month had submitted his resignation to Queen Elizabeth, since Queen carries the title of protector of the faith-and disagreed on the issue of ordination of women priests but also for gay marriage.
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I was once an Anglican, and I thought like Rowan Williams. Many Anglicans do.
ReplyDeleteI just pray that as he comes into contact with Orthodoxy on the Holy Mountain that he will be drawn to the true Orthodox Faith.
Thank you very much, your words are beautiful.
DeleteYou know that we Orthodox Christians are sensitive when is concerned Athos and ecumenism. Has a much of pressure on the Athos and Eastern Orthodox monasteries to have to be open to the public. However, we know that the Athos is holy place because the monks living the monastic way of life created by the Holy fathers and Orthodox theology.
The question is what would happen if the elders from Mount Athos began to listen and to learn from other teachers?