Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin Daviar Gersht. Archbishop Archbishop Khachatryan's Sermon
(April 19, 2025, Holy Etchmiadzin, Mother Cathedral)
Sisters and brothers,
Today, April 19, 2025, the Church welcomes the holy resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with flammable lamps.
Since two thousand years, the Lord's miraculous Holy Resurrection continues to captivate people's souls, inspire hope and faith in Christians' hearts. The core and peak of the Christian faith, undeniable testimony of Jesus Christ's divinity. And for that, the St. apostle declares in his letter to the converts of Corinthians two decades two decades of the resurrection of the Savior. "And if Christ has not been resurrected, our preaching is acceptable, and your faith is acceptable." - 1 Cor. 15:14. Yes, the Holy Resurrection miraculously completes God's salvation, the purpose of his earthly mission is revealed.
These days before the resurrection of the Savior, Christians survived the cosmic but tragic events of the Lord's Earth life. We visited the Lord with the students of the Holy Council of the sacrament of the Hoghara and the violence of the Jewish staff, and threw it with him. The Savior, we heard the sighs of his agony and the voice. "My God, my God, why did you leave me?" - Matt. 27:46.
It seemed that Jesus' death ended another story of human life. It seemed that it happened to what happens. Death absorbed another victim.
The story of Christ and Christianity would end, if death won his life, and if the death stone was concluded. It would end, unless they sounded the angelicizer of the darkness. "Christ is risen from the dead."
Jesus' miraculously revealed his divinity. Jesus' resurred was sense of his persecution and suffering, his crucifixion, death, and burial councils. Death of Christ's resurrection ceased to be an insurmountable barrier to life, but became a door that opened to eternity. And for that Christ says: "I am the resurrection and life. Whoever believes in me, though he will die, he will live. "- John 11: 25-26.
The cosmic volumes of the resurrection of Christ, however, never humiliate or destroy the value of the earthly life, but make it an eternal day of eternity. Without the resurrection, the earthly life is doomed to turn into a competition, where the award becomes a spoiling material, fading beauty, the powdered power and the dusting power. Without the resurrection, the lines are deleted from sin and virtue, good and evil, light and darkness. Without resurrection, there are no boundaries and there are no guidelines, there are no goals and there are no means, but there is only a fast and ahead of a hacking. This is how the denial of the resurrection destroys life and pushes a person to his own desires, his own desires and rights. Meanwhile, in the light of the resurrection of each place of life, from birth to death, salvation is a ring of eternity chain. In the light of the resurrection, the affairs of the earth are reacted to eternity, the efforts of the earth become treasures in heaven. And again and again, the apostle is true. "If Christ has not been resurrected, your faith is acceptable." - 1 Corinthi 15:17.
Thousands of times our people have gone through the valleys of death and horror, to fight the cup of bitterness, and sometimes tried to escape from a tragic reality, and sometimes they would doubt the truth and God of God.
Even today, we continue to have the consequences of the genocidal actions, again the eyes of orphaned children who are waving the sons of pain, the thirsty views of the damaged Artsakh Armenians, and the prisoners of the prison, the missing people in their own country and the missed people. And at the same time, today, two thousand years after the Holy Resurrection of Christ.
- We see the indifferent and dander souls of human pain and need, which are looking for glory and personal well-being at the cost of denial of identity.
- We are seeing high chairs in high chairs, who have a patriotism, renunciation of historical memory, and self-propaganda,
- We are seeing magicians of speech, which are spreading restraint in freedom and modernity.
- We also see self-proclaimed enlighteners who sell "knowledge and clearance" in the outrage parade of unrighteousness.
And these are all proud of what was to be ashamed, and ashamed of what he had to boast. And so they are honor and respect, the past and present, but also the future is auction in the Black Bagins of Peace.
Doesn't the miracle of the Holy Resurrection in this mournful images of this mournful images? How to believe that the Savior's Holy Holiness Council should become life and salvation for us today.
Sisters and brothers,
I have no words to convince you of the truth of the resurrection, I do not have words to assure you in the authenticity of everlasting life.
I only have convinced that life cannot be limited to pointless and tragic death.
I have convinced that life cannot end with crying and tragedy, and cannot become the whole and all the essence and content of life.
And I have convinced that Jesus really was resurrected and that he was God. God can't die. If God is dead, then it is not only our preaching and our faith, but our whole life, and our whole life. And since our lives are not aware, then Jesus' resurrection is true, both undeniable, God, and their participation in our lives. And finally, it is easier to believe that God has rely resurrected than God remains dead.
JUSTIFIED TO BE DESTROYED, DISAPPOINTED TO BE DISAPPOINTED TO BE DESTROYED, DISAPPOINTED BY THE LAST, WILL NOT BE SURPRISED BY THE FIRST TIME AND DON'T BE SURPRISED. Let's fight against sin first, then and everywhere. Let's fight for life and dignity, to fight for our faith and identity, to fight for progress and improvement. When there is no struggle, death is everywhere. The resurrection is everywhere and every hour when God becomes the axis and guidelines for our lives. The resurrection is where there is no hatred and enmity, the resurrection is there where the barrier sank is evil and the resurrection is there, where congregation and solidarity and reigns are dominated.
And so let the holy resurrection of the Lord be blessed. Let the gifts of the Savior's holy resurrection abundantly spread to people's souls and inappropriate Armenian life now and forever and ever.
"Christ is risen from the dead.
Blessed is the resurrection of Christ. "
