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  • ANTELIAS: The feast of St. Gregory the Illuminator

    PRESS RELEASE
    Catholicosate of Cilicia
    Communication and Information Department
    Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
    Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
    Fax: (04) 419724
    E- mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    Armenian version: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/v04/doc/Arme nian.htm

    THE FEAST OF SAINT GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR
    A PILGRIMAGE FOR THE HOLY SEE OF CILICIA

    On Sunday 29 March, the Church celebrated the Feast of the entrance of St.
    Gregory into the pit (Khorvirab) on the Plain of Ararat. On this day the
    Catholicosate of Cilicia and all Dioceses also remember when the Holy See of
    Cilicia was uprooted from its historical home and settled in Antelias
    (Lebanon).

    His Holiness Aram I presided over the liturgy. The Shenorhali Choir of the
    Catholicosate sung the liturgy and the special hymns of the day. In his
    sermon, the celebrant, Archbishop Varoujan Hergelian, Catholicosal Vicar,
    spoke of the life, vocation and mission of the great saint and reflected on
    their meaning for the life of post-genocide generations. At the end of the
    liturgy, His Holiness Aram I led the archbishops, bishops holding the relic
    of Saint Gregory and those of other saints, priests, seminarians, and the
    people in a procession outside the church. At the end of the procession they
    all returned to the Church for the blessing of the water. The pilgrimage
    ended with His Holiness' prayers for the healing of the world, and a special
    prayer of intercession, where the Catholicos prayed to Saint Gregory, asking
    for God's blessing on the nation and its people in Armenia and the Diaspora.

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    The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
    the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
    the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
    the Catholicosate, http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org The Cilician
    Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
    Antelias, Lebanon.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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