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| GREAT FAST | MEDZ BAHK | ՄԵԾ ՊԱՀՔ |
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Dear Faithful
According to our Church Calendar Great Fast (Մեծ Պահք) starts after celebrating Boun Barekendan, eve of the Great Fast, which in Armenian tradition is a day of feast and celebration. The Great lent will continue until Great Saturday.
It is 47-day period of fasting and abstinence, which includes the 40 days of the Fast of Great Lent and 7 days that of the Holy Week. Let us embark on this spiritual journey in happiness with fasting, prayer, forgiveness, donating to charities and doing voluntary work as the Gospel instructs us (Mathew 6:1-21). As a wise man would say “we have holydays to recover physically, likewise we need to observe the Great Lent to recover and cleanse spiritually.”
Yours truly,
Bishop Hovakim Manukyan
12 February 2018
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| TIARNENDARAJ (ՏԵԱՌՆԸՆԴԱՌԱՋ) CELEBRATIONS |
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| 13th of February on the eve of the feast of presentation Primate presided over the vesper's service at St. Yeghiche Armenian Church. At the end of the service special rite of blessings of the newly wed couples was conducted by His Grace and the procession holding a lit candle from the main altar moved the Church yard where traditional Tiarnendaraj fire was lit. |
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| SPIRITUALITY: ABOUT FASTING AND LENT |
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| With us Armenians, abstinence, as a canonical religious mandate, calls for avoiding, abstaining from, the consumption of foods containing meat, fats, milk products, and eggs, of alcoholic drinks, and also of participating in merriment. Instead, it is prescribed to eat vegetables, grains, and foods based on them, prepared with vegetable oil or olive oil. Honey is also permitted. |
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| JOIN OUR EASTER CELEBRATIONS |
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| Registered office address:
Kemp House 152-160 City Road, London EC1V 2NX
Correspondence address:
The Armenian Vicarage
Iverna Gardens, Kensington, London W8 6TP
0208 127 8364
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