HOLY EASTER IS THE CELEBRATION OF FAITH
“…Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:14).
Holy Easter is the celebration of faith. According to His promise, the Savior of the World was crucified and with His Victorious Resurrection granted us a New Life. The Christian Church celebrates Holy Easter with triumph and jubilation, for it is a day of spiritual renewal, the guarantor of our salvation as long as we reaffirm our faith in the mystery of the Resurrection.
Approximately two thousand years ago, humanity experienced an unprecedented miracle in the Resurrection of Christ, our Lord, when He paved the Way to a New Life.
Beloved faithful in Christ,
To celebrate Easter is to enlighten our lives with Christ by re-evaluating ourselves through the messages emanating from the Gospel, to live with Him in a spiritual intimacy and in constant awareness that we are created according to His Godly image and likeness. In order to explain the essential need of the Holy Resurrection in the life of humanity, one of the enlightened fathers of our Church, Catholicos of All Armenians His Holiness Kevork VI elaborated “The world aged not by thought alone but also by corrupt morality. It did not lack knowledge or beautification – rather moral values, for the world was rotted exactly as it is today. The world lacked moral renaissance.”
When Christians celebrate Holy Easter, they renew and enlighten their lives. The 40 days of prayer, fasting, and self-examination that precede Holy Easter illuminate the path towards righteousness.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Let us live our lives inspired by Victorious Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as was the case for our forefathers, especially the martyrs who sacrificed God’s most precious gift of life so that we may continue to live our ancestral Christian Faith. Their message has become the legacy which we bear on our shoulders with great reverence and responsibility. The past one hundred years of Armenian history is a testimony of the resurrection of our people. The vast accomplishments of the Armenian people across the globe in the face of adversities ultimately symbolize the resurrection of our nation through the Resurrection of Christ, our Lord.
And again, to celebrate Holy Easter is to uphold the Armenian identity, to preserve our Christian character, and the values which we commonly hold in reverence. Most importantly, to celebrate Easter means for us to protect the sanctity of the Armenian family which is the guarantor of our perpetuity.
Finally, to celebrate Holy Easter means to love and respect each other without reservation, to unite under the blessed dome of the Armenian Holy Apostolic Church which contains the condensed history of the Armenian people. As we commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide and canonize our martyrs into the Sainthood, we call upon our people to reawaken within their hearts the ancestral Christian faith and continue to live with the mystery of the Holy Resurrection so that “Christ, our Lord will give [us] light”.
Christ is Risen from the Dead!
Blessed is the Resurrection of Christ, our Lord!
Holy Easter 2015 |
Yorumlar kapatıldı.