Believers these days and nights in front of the Church of St. Sava, wouldn't they kiss? belt of the Blessed Virgin MaryThe lines are huge.
That moment was caught by tabloid "Informer" to publish a classic clickbait text with the question - are menstruating women allowed to enter the temple and even be near the belt of the Holy Mother of God. Especially as they normally do not have the opportunity to bow before one of the most revered relics in the Orthodox world because it is located in Hilandar.
The woman is not unclean.
It has already been explained so many times that the theory that menstrual blood is considered impure for the performance of certain religious rites has no solid theological basis and is only a field of traditional belief. Bishop Gligorije, I recorded it and Tik-Tok on that topic.
Television Hram, in the section "Answer of the clergy", also offers an answer to this question, touching on the right to communion. In the answer expires, after interpreting Moses' words, that "there is no other theological explanation why it would be forbidden for a woman to receive communion during her cycle". Fear of spilling blood during communion, allegations se, is unfounded and existed in the Old Testament due to poor hygienic conditions. Not only is a woman not considered "unclean" during her menstrual cycle, but she is expires and "that what God has given to a woman for bearing children cannot be impure before the Church or before people".
"At the time when Moses wrote his commandments, the position of women in Jewish society was quite difficult. A woman was in a slightly better position than a slave," writes TV Temple.
The Holy Girdle of the Blessed Virgin Mary among the Serbs: The Miracle in the Temple of Saint Sava
Quick click trading
Although centuries have passed since then, here is an opportunity to quickly trade bribes and once again grant women rights in the church that already has them.
Although our personal hygiene is much better since then, the media hygiene is certainly not.
Not only does the "Informer" explain none of this, it merely conveys the doubts of a woman who allegedly did not know what to do. They describe how she was anxious and sought the advice of a clergyman because she wanted to be sure that it was not a sin. There is no statement from the priest either.
"The affirmative answer of the priest brought relief to the readers of 'Informer', but also to other believers who were not prevented from approaching the shrine because of the cycle," writes Dragan J. Vučićevića on the portal.
The Church Doesn't Need an Informer
The moment when this relic arrives is specific to Serbia. The Serbian Orthodox Church has just permanently dismissed Metropolitan Justin Žički because he supported the students and defended them from verbal attacks that "Serbian Ustashas" who "roar around the streets".
The Girdle of the Blessed Virgin Mary arrived in Belgrade after the publication of research by the Center for Investigative Journalism from Sarajevo, in which it is claimed that the election of Patriarch Porfirio was monitored by hidden cameras and parallel surveillance systems installed in the Saint Sava crypt.
The state and the SPC establish a joint university under unclear explanations of cooperation, and theologian Blagoje Pantelić and priest Vukašin Milićević they were excluded from the Serbian Orthodox Church, and Milićević was deprived of his priestly rank. Probably because of the statements about the connection between the existing regime and the SPC.
They don't need "Informer" either.
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