Mon, Mar 26 2007

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Primate Galstanian leaves for Spiritual Retreat in Quebec City

His Eminence Bishop Bagrat Galstanian left for Quebec City, on Sunday
March 25, 2007 to spend a week in prayer and contemplation at a Jesuit
monastery. Our Primate left Montreal following the celebration of the
Divine Liturgy and presiding over the Annual General Assembly of Saint
Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Cathedral of Montreal. He will be
returning on Saturday March 31, 2007=2E

Primate Galstanian chose to have a "silent moment," to rediscover the
divinity that exists at the center of our lives, and to contemplate the
mission of our Church in Canada, as we prepare to mark and relive the most
significant days and events of Christ’s earthly life. Lord’s entry to
Jerusalem-Palm Sunday, the Holy Week, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and
the Victorious Resurrection represent this most inspiring and blessed
season. In his book, A Place for God, author Timothy K. Jones, suggests
participating in a retreat so we may "recollect a scattered life and focus
on the one who calls and seeks and invites us to communion."

"Through prayer that gives up self, we seek to open ourselves up before
God, and to hear anew the call "Come unto me!" We seek to recognize and
respond afresh to God’s presence in our lives and in our world. We seek to
place our needs, our fears, our failures, our hopes, our very lives in
God’s hands, again. We seek by abandoning ourselves in Jesus’ death to
recognize again, whom God is, to allow His transforming grace to work in
us once more and to come to worship Him on Easter Sunday."

May our Primate observe a prayerful week of reflection and meditation=2E
26 Mar 2007 by Press Office
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