Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

What Is Catholicos's Role In The End?

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • What Is Catholicos's Role In The End?

    WHAT IS CATHOLICOS'S ROLE IN THE END?
    Hakob Badalyan

    Lragir.am
    25/11/09

    The All-Armenian Catholicos Garegin II left for Moscow on a three-day
    visit where he is going to consecrate a cross of a church dome.

    Several days before his visit, the Armenian St. Gevorg church collapsed
    in Tbilisi. The Armenian Catholicos seems logic not to leave for Moscow
    but for Tbilisi where there are still standing Armenian churches. The
    cross of a Moscow church dome could be consecrated without the
    Armenian Catholicos too. But visiting Moscow is a pleasure. There is
    numerous and which is more important a wealthy Armenian community
    where churches do not collapse but are only built and he only has
    to consecrate them and enjoy hospitality and honor that the wealthy
    community will surely offer to the All-Armenian Catholicos. While in
    Tbilisi, there are problems which need solutions.

    In other words, visiting Tbilisi needs efforts for the defense of
    Armenian churches.

    The Armenian church in Tbilisi collapsed not because of the lack
    of care of the Georgian government but because of the lack of these
    efforts. The Georgian government is not caring and will not be. If
    we announce that those churches are our, which is the reason why
    we complain of others' carelessness. If it is our property, we have
    to take care of it. What did the Armenian Apostolic Church and its
    pastor do for the preservation of our churches? In such cases, they
    usually say that they work in silence and we without knowing anything
    criticize them groundlessly. On the one hand, the information on
    their work is strange to be kept in secrecy while information on
    the consecration of churches can be compared to the work of world
    famous informational agencies. Which is the reason why the Armenian
    Church does not want people to know about its efforts aimed at the
    preservation of for example Armenian churches in Georgia?

    Usually, in such cases they say that in case of being public, their
    effectiveness will decrease. As if the Church is negotiating for the
    Karabakh issue and needs to keep the negotiations secret. It seems
    to be more effective when the negotiation is secret but churches
    publicly collapse. Consequently, either there is no negotiation or
    if secret efforts are undertaken, they come out to be useless because
    Armenian churches collapse the same. Maybe these secret or not secret
    efforts are worth being replaced with a public visit of the Armenian
    Catholicos to Tbilisi to meet with the members of the Armenian Church
    and to hold a public speech in connection with the preservation of
    Armenian monuments.

    In general, the current situation brings about a question: what in
    reality the role and the function of the All-Armenian Catholicos are
    in the national life. Is he a symbolic person who is to be honored and
    not demanded anything besides benediction or he is a person who has to
    participate in the discussion of issues related to the national life?

    If the Catholicos is just a symbol, maybe he had better not leave
    his residence in Echmiadzin. If he is a person who is elected by
    the choice of people having the mission to serve people, he must be
    ready to discuss pan-national issues with the very people and look
    for answers with them.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Working...
X