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Catholicosate of Cilicia
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CONSECRATION OF ST. MARY’S CHURCH IN KARADURAN
"WE SHOULD NOT ONLY GO TO CHURCH, WE SHOULD INCORPORATE THE CHURCH INTO OUR
LIVES"
SAID HIS HOLINESS ARAM I
On Sunday 18 October 2009, in the presence of bishops and priests of the
brotherhood from Lebanon and Syria, religious representatives, lay leaders
and a large number of people from Syria and other countries, His Holiness
Aram I consecrated the new Church.
The town of Karaduran has a long history of building churches and then
losing contact with them whenever the map of the region has been redrawn. St
Mary’s Church was constructed because the old one, which had been built in
1950, was about to crumble. After singing psalms and prayers of
thanksgiving, His Holiness Aram I anointed the altar; bishops Shahan and
Norayr then annointed the four corners of the church. His Holiness Aram I
said: "Wherever our people have gone, they have built a church next to their
homes. However, we should not only be churchgoers, but we should incorporate
the church into our lives. We are not anointing the stones of the altar and
the walls, but we are renewing our covenant with God, with our church
Tradition, its spirituality and on the path carved by St. Gregory of Nareg
and St. Nerses the Gracious.
After the consecration and liturgy, celebrations continued with a public
banquet in the presence of Catholicos Aram I.
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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 dioceses 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress