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    PRESS RELEASE
    Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
    630 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10016
    Tel: (212) 686-0710
    Fax: (212) 779-3558
    Web: http://www.armenianchurch.org/
    Email: [email protected]



    Let the Sainted Martyrs Strengthen Us

    `I shall face the task before me with confidence, and do so boldly-for
    the Father requests me, and the Church is with me, and the sainted
    martyrs will strengthen me wherever I am weak. In this way have the
    martyrs shown their power: mocking the wrath of princes, seizing
    victory through their fall, bursting the bars of life that they may
    open the gates of heaven. If anyone doubts that death is abolished,
    that the chains of hell are broken, that the tyrant is bound-let him
    look upon the martyrs standing up in the face of death, and taking up
    the jubilant strain of Christ's victory.' - From `On All the Saints,'
    by St. Gregory the Wonder-worker (4th c.)

    On this day of solemn remembrance, we convey our prayers of hope in
    the resurrection of our Lord, for the souls of our beloved ancestors
    and countrymen who lost their lives in the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

    With prayers,

    Archbishop Khajag Barsamian
    Primate



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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