Christmas Lent begins today and will last until January 5, the end of the Christmas Candlelight Liturgy.
"With abstinence, a person will be able to purify himself, go through a period of repentance and eventually be able to be a communicator of the enlightened counsel of the birth of Jesus Christ," said priest Bartholomeos Hakobyan, spiritual pastor of the Holy Martyrs Church in Nubarashen, according to Qahana.am.
The priest adds: it is important for every Christian to think. "To move like everyone else, or to think about what the Lord expects from us, what the Church says, according to the word of God?"
The Armenian Church does not forbid celebrating Taremut, but urges us to have a sober attitude instead of drinking and drinking.
The Armenians once followed this advice. Christians went through a period of fasting before Christmas. Now the period is divided into three separate periods. Until the Soviet orders, Armenians continued to observe Taremut indulged in New Year's celebration to overshadow the spiritual.
