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  • ANTELIAS: HH Aram I celebrates Armenian Christmas Liturgy in Antelia

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

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    HIS HOLINESS ARAM I CELEBRATES ARMENIAN
    CHRISTMAS LITURGY IN ANTELIAS

    On Wednesday 6 January 2010, Armenians all around the world celebrated
    Christmas. In Antelias, His Holiness Aram I celebrated the liturgy with the
    participation of a large number of believers.

    His Holiness emphasized in his sermon the relationship between Incarnation
    and love. He said, "On this day of Christmas, we should renew ourselves with
    the commandment of love given to us by God through the birth of His Son.
    Jesus of Bethlehem loved humanity and taught us to love even our enemies. In
    fact, love should fuel and guide all our actions. Yet, today, we observe the
    absence of love towards God, humanity and the environment. Instead,
    everything in the world evolves around individual self-satisfaction. Both
    violence and lack of respect of the created world are the inevitable
    outcomes of this selfish love."

    In the second part of his sermon he greeted the people of Lebanon and said
    that Lebanon as a big family is unique in that it symbolizes unity in
    diversity. Lebanon will thrive only through love and mutual respect
    exercised by its people. The Armenian community will continue to strive for
    this goal. His Holiness Aram I then expressed his good wishes on this
    occasion to His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, the
    Patriarch of Jerusalem His Beatitude Torkom Manoukian, the Patriarch of
    Constantinople, His Beatitude Mesrob Moutafian, and the Armenian clergy and
    laity all over the world.

    On Christmas day, and the following day, Catholicos Aram I received the
    visits of Lebanese dignitaries, members of the diplomatic corps, and
    representatives of civil society organizations, both Lebanese and Armenian,
    who expressed their good wishes on the occasion of Armenian Christmas.

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    View the photos here:
    http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/v04/do c/Photos/Photos425.htm
    http://www.ArmenianOrthodox Church.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos426.htm
    http://www .ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/v04/doc/Photos/Photos4 27.htm
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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.
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