April 5, 2020

PALM SUNDAY IN ANTELIAS

On Sunday, April 5th, 2020, His Holiness Aram I presided over the Palm Sunday Divine Liturgy celebrated by Bishop Magar Ashkarian, and delivered his pontifical message. The faithful were able to follow through Cilicia TV, the online channel of the Catholicosate.  

 

Surrounded by the Cilician Brothers in front of St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral and holding an olive branch, Aram I greeted the faithful and  reassured that although the lockdown lockdown was depriving the faithful from physically being present in church, they would not be deprived from celebrating the feats altogether, and raised his prayers asking God to be with the people through the pandemic and bless the faithful by entering their hearts and houses just as Jesus entered Jerusalem so that the children of God empowered by Him are able to overcome all of life’s challenges and evils.

 

On the evening of the same say, the Opening of the Portals ceremony was held at the cathedral and Archbishop Shahan Sarkissian delivered the message of the ceremony, which symbolizes the second coming of Jesus Christ and opening the gates of salvation.

 

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