Pomegranate-blessing to be offered at all Armenian churches on the Eve of the New Year

Panorama, Armenia

Dec 29 2018

Society 20:00 29/12/2018 Armenia

On the Eve of the New Year in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and all the churches of the Armenian Church, a Pomegranate-blessing service will be offered at the end of the Prayer of Thanks.

As the Information department at Mother See of Holly Echmiadzin reports, the order of blessing was approved in 2015 by Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.

in the Armenian tradition, the pomegranate as a national symbol reflects the meaning of life, prosperity and abundance. In the Christian symbolism the pomegranate is the symbol of the blood shed by Jesus Christ, symbolizing also the Glorious Resurrection of our Lord and the diversity of God's grace.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS