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  • ANTELIAS: On the feast of Ghevontiants

    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/

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    Antelias-Lebanon

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    ON THE FEAST OF GHEVONTIANTS HIS HOLINESS ARAM I ADDRESSES
    THE ARMENIAN CLERGY CONFERENCE OF NORTH AMERICA

    Ghevontiants is the feast of the Armenian clergy held each year before Lent.
    The Church honors the clergy on this day in recognition of their service to
    the Church. The dioceses in North America holds annually a joint conference
    in order to discuss ways and means of responding together to the spiritual
    needs of their believers.

    In his Pontifical Letter, His Holiness Aram I highlighted the importance of
    the initiative, and blessed their decision to work together and interpret
    the Gospel values of the church for the spiritual and diakonal needs of the
    community. He reminded them of the importance of their role in the church in
    nurturing cohesion and good will in the community.

    In the end of his Letter, Catholicos Aram reminded the clergy of the
    importance of 2010 as the Year of Armenian Women. He said that the
    Pontifical Letter announcing the year also invited the clergy and laity to
    address culturally conditioned views on women in the light of the Gospel,
    and new international understanding of equality between women and men in
    society. He asked them to expand the understanding of laity in the church
    and the community and involve women as equal partners.

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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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