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    Mon, Mar 26 2007

    PRESS OFFICE
    Diocese of the Armenian Church of Canada
    615 Stuart Avenue, Outremont-Quebec H2V 3H2
    Contact: Deacon Hagop Arslanian,
    Tel: 514-276-9479
    Fax: 514-276-9960
    Email: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.armenianchurch.ca/


    Primate Galstanian leaves for Spiritual Retreat in Quebec City

    His Eminence Bishop Bagrat Galstanian left for Quebec City, on Sunday
    March 25, 2007 to spend a week in prayer and contemplation at a Jesuit
    monastery. Our Primate left Montreal following the celebration of the
    Divine Liturgy and presiding over the Annual General Assembly of Saint
    Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Cathedral of Montreal. He will be
    returning on Saturday March 31, 2007=2E

    Primate Galstanian chose to have a "silent moment," to rediscover the
    divinity that exists at the center of our lives, and to contemplate the
    mission of our Church in Canada, as we prepare to mark and relive the most
    significant days and events of Christ's earthly life. Lord's entry to
    Jerusalem-Palm Sunday, the Holy Week, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and
    the Victorious Resurrection represent this most inspiring and blessed
    season. In his book, A Place for God, author Timothy K. Jones, suggests
    participating in a retreat so we may "recollect a scattered life and focus
    on the one who calls and seeks and invites us to communion."

    "Through prayer that gives up self, we seek to open ourselves up before
    God, and to hear anew the call "Come unto me!" We seek to recognize and
    respond afresh to God's presence in our lives and in our world. We seek to
    place our needs, our fears, our failures, our hopes, our very lives in
    God's hands, again. We seek by abandoning ourselves in Jesus' death to
    recognize again, whom God is, to allow His transforming grace to work in
    us once more and to come to worship Him on Easter Sunday."

    May our Primate observe a prayerful week of reflection and meditation=2E
    26 Mar 2007 by Press Office
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