PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: cathcil@cathcil.org
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version:

THOU SANDS OF ARMENIAN CHILDREN CELEBRATE PALM SUNDAY
IN THE CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA

Thousands of Armenian children gathered with their parents in the St.
Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias on April 9 to celebrate Palm
Sunday.

Holy Mass was held in the Cathedral on this occasion and a special
procession of children walked out of the Cathedral, circulating outside and
returning to the Cathedral.

Bishop Nareg Alemezian performed the Holy Mass. His Holiness Aram I
delivered a special speech from the balcony of the Veharan with the
participants in the Third Pan-Armenian Conference standing beside him.

The Armenian Pontiff greeted all the Armenian children in all the corners of
the globe, relating the significance of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem to the
Armenian motherland, which is a new Jerusalem for Armenians in the words of
His Holiness.

His Holiness then received the thousand of Armenian children, blessing them
and distributing special Easter gifts to them.

A service for the “opening of the door of heaven” was held in the afternoon.
The service was presided by His Holiness Aram I and conducted by Bishop
Nareg, who delivered a sermon about Jesus Christ’s second coming into the
world.

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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
mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of the
Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.