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April 5, 2007
His Holiness Karekin II Receives Students from the Hovnanian School
On April 4, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians, received the graduating class of the Hovnanian School (New
Jersey, U.S.A.) in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The visit of the
eighth grade class of the Hovnanian School to Armenia and Holy Etchmiadzin
has become an annual tradition.
His Holiness extended his fatherly blessings and message to the students,
exhorting them to frequently visit their homeland, and emphasized the
significance of their visit during Holy Week and Easter. His Holiness spoke
with the teenagers and their teachers about the importance of prayer in
their everyday lives, and encouraged them to say a prayer every time they
visit a monastery or enter a church, throughout the course of their
pilgrimage. The Armenian Pontiff noted that by so doing, they will be
combining their prayers with the millions of prayers spoken by their
ancestors throughout history.