Antilias – The Armenian Spiritual Songbook

THE SPIRITUAL SONG OF THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE

            Armenian literary scholar, literary critic and Armenia
David Gasparian, a member of the Union of Writers, merging spiritual and moral values,
he will say in one of his works. “Unity of spiritual values
is the ideological precondition of the motherland“, and as for the Motherland, so is the Armenian-man
it is the fusion of the spiritual and the national of the individual that baptizes him with the Armenian stamp.

            People often try to laugh at that indivisible
fusion, many times emphasizing only the national and or vice versa, the spiritual. And this
the struggle and struggle will never end, because nationalists will be advocated
the national one, and then extreme religious fanatics, will completely defoliate the national one
value, while the true sage should be able to find the middle ground between them and
balance. 

            Our Patriarchs and Fathers always
they stayed away from such extremes and viewed Armenia as a whole.
as a nation and a church that are inseparable and mutually complementary. H.E. Aram A. His Highness
Patriarch, affirming the necessity of this merger, to one of his labors
will say in “If the state gives our people physical existence and material bread
It should be pursued, our church and our people’s mental and moral health
from spirit to bread  supply tracking required
become“. In other words, nationality is the body, spirituality is the soul
constitute a living, real Armenian human being.

            All of these became a source of irritation to me.
when “The Armenian Man is Spiritual” was published by the printing house of the Catholicos of Cilicia.
“Yergaran” work, where, among spiritual songs, I also saw an Armenian poet, public speaker
and pedagogue Smbat Shahazizi “Song of a Dying Patriot» piece of music, Simon
Felekean’s “My Patriotic Spirit Vardan“, Ashugh Jivani’s “Brave Vardan“,
Vahan Tekeyan’s “Ghost Martyr“and other songs, which are patriotic songs
seems to be… Yes, they are Patriotic songs, but they won’t stop at the same time
to be a spiritual song, because for a real Armenian, they are always merged
the two A true Armenian man has experienced “Lord have mercysing on the battlefield
as well as “Ball Thunder“in the perimeter of the church.

            History shows that enemy states
when they attacked Armenia, their target was not only nationality, and either
on the contrary, only spirituality and religion. Isn’t it surprising… the enemy is more than us?
to realize the merging of the nationality and spirituality of the Armenian people, and that is the reason
that while trying to attack the spirituality many times, they also tried to weaken it at the same time
the national, because they are aware that without the existence of the spiritual, it will also weaken
nationality, and without national existence, the church will also be alienated.

            We should never think that the Genocide is the main thing
the target was only our nationality and or our Christianity, but Armenia, its spirituality
and with equal national values.

            The Armenian people also have a different understanding
a. if you are national, you are automatically away from spiritual life, and if you are spiritual,
you never deal with the national or political. Let’s dust off the history
the forgotten pages. For the most part, the greatest national figures have been strong
clergymen. and what’s more, the clergy themselves have been progressive nationals.

            National, revolutionary, popular and all that is related to the Armenian are part of the “Armenian Man’s Spiritual Choir”, as well as the life of the Armenian clergyman himself, because the Armenian Church believes that alongside the people of God, it is also a servant of the Armenian people, endowed with the mission of providing them with all kinds of spiritual and moral values. Not only spiritual worship will take place in the Antilias blockade. The Armenian Church supports Armenian writing and literature in the way of Armenian printing, Armenian language training in the way of the prosperity and progress of the Armenian language, and pedagogical training in the way of moral through education, choirs, preservation and dissemination of Armenian spiritual and national music and image. And that is the reason why we gave our church the name of MOTHER church, because the calling of a real mother is to give her children both spiritual and moral education, and it is in the completion of all these that a nation reaches its perfection. It is the connection and completion of all of them that make up the real Armenian Man.

            Blessed is the man who lives his life
to bring together the Armenian Man’s national songbook and the spiritual, combining both
in order to create a stronger and stronger personality and profile of Armenians. Good luck!
the person who can see the patriotic in the spiritual and the patriotic in the
the spiritual and that is the reason why the historians of our past have the national history
and the spiritual history were not written separately from each other, but by recording them all together
presented the HISTORY OF THE ARMENIAN NATION.

            Full respect to all those who are national
and they try to transfer the spiritual together to the new generations, because really“Charged with spiritual values
and the preparation of a person who has the vocation to serve the church, the nation and the motherland
it should always remain a priority” (H.E. Aram A. Catholicos).

Careful. T. In pursuit of Abh. Taghlean