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WHOSE EGG WAS HARDER?
Haikazn Ghahriyan, Editor-in-Chief
Society - 06 April 2015, 15:03
Serzh Sargsyan attended the Easter Liturgy in St. Echmiadzin. In
this picture, Catholicos Garegin and Serzh Sargsyan are "fighting"
with their Easter eggs.
A few days ago the meeting of government discussed the non-working
memorial days following church holidays. The representative of the
Mother See attending the meeting argued for the non-working memorial
days. He stated that after speaking about the issues of the living
the government must listen to the issues relating to the dead ones
and not forget that the dead ones are as alive as the living ones.
In the context of two decades of the joint cooperation of the secular
and spiritual leaderships these words of the church representative
sounded sinister in the sense that nothing has been done for the
living ones in the country. Without remembering the famous Christian
parable about the living and the dead, it should be noted that the
only successful thing so far has been commemoration of the dead ones.
The people who were the first to adopt Christianity never adhered to
and carried the values of Christianity into everyday and public life
and was limited to rituals and ceremonies. The same thing happened in
the public life when every day and creation was reduced to "events",
which is the same as the ritual.
2000 years after Christ's birth the Armenian people had an
unprecedented historical chance to create a state and rise from the
ashes and disgrace of centuries. This understanding and rise was
during the nation liberation war and ended in victory.
However, another process was going on along with the national rise
which eventually prevailed as it had prevailed in every period of
our history. The secular and spiritual elites were not capable of
developing and establishing the national-spiritual rise. Instead,
the newly independent state and public life degraded, became primitive
and was reduced to the ritual deprived of content.
Once Catholicos Garegin used to complain that church holidays are
holidays of joy and liveliness and they should not be perceived as a
cult of life after death. This is because the activities of the secular
and spiritual leaderships are not based on service to the community but
solution of their own problems, establishing their own perceptions and
values. In this case faith is reduced to rituals, creation to events.
Hence, the "contest" of Easter eggs of the two leaders Serzh Sargsyan
and Catholicos Garegin ended in a draw.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/33888
Haikazn Ghahriyan, Editor-in-Chief
Society - 06 April 2015, 15:03
Serzh Sargsyan attended the Easter Liturgy in St. Echmiadzin. In
this picture, Catholicos Garegin and Serzh Sargsyan are "fighting"
with their Easter eggs.
A few days ago the meeting of government discussed the non-working
memorial days following church holidays. The representative of the
Mother See attending the meeting argued for the non-working memorial
days. He stated that after speaking about the issues of the living
the government must listen to the issues relating to the dead ones
and not forget that the dead ones are as alive as the living ones.
In the context of two decades of the joint cooperation of the secular
and spiritual leaderships these words of the church representative
sounded sinister in the sense that nothing has been done for the
living ones in the country. Without remembering the famous Christian
parable about the living and the dead, it should be noted that the
only successful thing so far has been commemoration of the dead ones.
The people who were the first to adopt Christianity never adhered to
and carried the values of Christianity into everyday and public life
and was limited to rituals and ceremonies. The same thing happened in
the public life when every day and creation was reduced to "events",
which is the same as the ritual.
2000 years after Christ's birth the Armenian people had an
unprecedented historical chance to create a state and rise from the
ashes and disgrace of centuries. This understanding and rise was
during the nation liberation war and ended in victory.
However, another process was going on along with the national rise
which eventually prevailed as it had prevailed in every period of
our history. The secular and spiritual elites were not capable of
developing and establishing the national-spiritual rise. Instead,
the newly independent state and public life degraded, became primitive
and was reduced to the ritual deprived of content.
Once Catholicos Garegin used to complain that church holidays are
holidays of joy and liveliness and they should not be perceived as a
cult of life after death. This is because the activities of the secular
and spiritual leaderships are not based on service to the community but
solution of their own problems, establishing their own perceptions and
values. In this case faith is reduced to rituals, creation to events.
Hence, the "contest" of Easter eggs of the two leaders Serzh Sargsyan
and Catholicos Garegin ended in a draw.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/society/view/33888