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  • Antelias: Palm Sunday in Antelias

    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.cathcil.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm


    THOU SANDS OF ARMENIAN CHILDREN CELEBRATE PALM SUNDAY
    IN THE CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA

    Thousands of Armenian children gathered with their parents in the St.
    Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias on April 9 to celebrate Palm
    Sunday.

    Holy Mass was held in the Cathedral on this occasion and a special
    procession of children walked out of the Cathedral, circulating outside and
    returning to the Cathedral.

    Bishop Nareg Alemezian performed the Holy Mass. His Holiness Aram I
    delivered a special speech from the balcony of the Veharan with the
    participants in the Third Pan-Armenian Conference standing beside him.

    The Armenian Pontiff greeted all the Armenian children in all the corners of
    the globe, relating the significance of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem to the
    Armenian motherland, which is a new Jerusalem for Armenians in the words of
    His Holiness.

    His Holiness then received the thousand of Armenian children, blessing them
    and distributing special Easter gifts to them.

    A service for the "opening of the door of heaven" was held in the afternoon.
    The service was presided by His Holiness Aram I and conducted by Bishop
    Nareg, who delivered a sermon about Jesus Christ's second coming into the
    world.

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    View photos here:
    http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Photos/Pictur es40.htm

    http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Photos/Pi ctures41.htm


    *****

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