Divine Liturgy and flag blessing in Antelias ahead of Armenia’s Independence Day

Public Radio of Armenia
Sept 20 2020

On Sunday, September 20th, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the great House of Cilicia, presided over the Divine Liturgy at St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, and conducted Prayers of Thanksgiving for the Republic of Armenia and the blessing of the Armenian flag in front of the Independence Monument.

The liturgy was attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Lebanon Vahagn Atabekian and the staff of the Embassy, as well as members of the National Central Committee and the faithful.

Liturgies were held in all the dioceses of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia.


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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS