Message of the Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Garegin II on
the New Year
armradio.am
01.01.2010 00:01
Dear pious people,
From the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin we greet you who are in Armenia
and Diaspora blessing you with Father’s love.
It is with great expectations that we meet the New Year 2010. We
stepped into a New Year and 5 days later our souls will get stronger
with the Holy Nativity of our Lord. With this divine blessing will the
New Year start and go forth for the Christian peoples worldwide. Dear
pious faithful, the New Year has a concept of a commencement for each
of us. The commencement is a start and the start is a hope, a hope for
creating the new, embodying our dreams and ideas, improving the flow
of our life.
At this moment we deliver our prayer of gratitude to the Lord for
granting us with the opportunity of creating our life in peace and
moving forward towards new achievements on the welfare of our sacred
Motherland.
We passed the year 2009 with the hope for joint and prosperous future
for all Armenians. With the help of God we overcame all the
difficulties and temptations, we achieved great summits and we must
still pass a long way towards the welfare we have dreamed for
centuries long and we must spare no efforts to make that dream come
true. The successes we registered in Armenia and Diaspora became
possible through the joint and hard efforts, as well as deep and
sincere love of our people towards the Motherland.
The year 2009 was also significant for our Church. Many reconstructed
and newly built churches opened their doors before all Armenians in
and abroad. The cooperation with Sister Churches was also efficient
aimed at establishing peace and love among the peoples of the world.
Glory to the Lord, who endowed us with hope and belief for the best.
The new Year is coming so let us take and create only the best, the
pleasant and perfect and make the life as nice as possible with the
help and the good will of our Father.
At this sacred moment of New Year we deliver our prayer to the God for
our compatriots spread all over the world and to the soldiers serving
in the Armenian Army. We deliver the prayer for the sick and prey to
God to bestow them with health and patience.
Dearest religious and pious compatriots,
Let us meet the New Year with optimism, with the belief on making our
hopes and visions come true. Let the belief be stable and powerful in
our hearts, and let all our activities be brought to life successfully
for God’s sake and for the sake of our Motherland and Saint Church.
God bless us, our country and the world and let the New Year be a year
of happiness, prosperity and joy.
Happy New Year!
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress