The 22 messages of His Holiness Bagrat on his 55th birthday

22 messages of His Holiness Bagrat on his 55th birthday:

1. If you love, you compete with God. God Himself, overcome by His great love, gave Himself for the world.

2. Spiritual Armenia will defeat the “real, new Armenia.” The “real, new Armenia” is about death, lies, and defeat, while Spiritual Armenia is about martyrdom, justice, and Victory.

3. Our dreams and desires are greater than the limited number of days in our lives.

4. Don’t ask whether it is possible or not, but ask whether it is impossible or not. Whatever the question in our mind, such will be the outcome.

5. The tricolor will defeat black and white, the Temple the street, the truth the lie.

6. Tsitsernakaberd gains meaning and strength from Yerablur... From the identity of the victim to the identity of the winner.

7. With the concept of being a “Forgotten Nation”, we must achieve the realization of the vision of being a “Victory Nation”.

8. The idea of ​​​​Genocide must become a system, and “Never Again” must become a formula, principle and action - life and everyday life.

9. Living, we die under the enlightened gaze of our many thousands of martyred fathers, brothers and sons, who will not allow us to steal the vision of victory from them and kill it. We are called to identify with them...

10. We do not seek war, but at the same time we do not want a humiliating, humiliating, dishonorable, faceless, colorless, homelandless peace.

11. Life is the supreme gift, but not the supreme value.

12. Education is the art of creating a virtuous person.

13. Economy is not and cannot be a goal and happiness in itself, but only a means for a dignified and prosperous life of man. Economy is a means and not a cult.

14. It is necessary to implement such environmental and economic programs and create such an environment that the real relationship and balance between man and nature is not violated and that human “ecology” does not disrupt the natural “ecology” and vice versa. This is also, in a holistic sense, an attitude towards life as a gift from God, appreciating the sanctity and quality of life as inseparable and harmonious with creation.

15. The cooperation of spiritual and secular science is a necessity. These two disciplines - science and faith - have different starting points, different starting points, goals, methodology, while complementing each other.

Science is about creation, and faith is about the Creator. Science answers the question “how”, and faith answers the question “why”.

16. We have no right to wallow, we have no right to live in this hatred and enmity.

17. Reconciliation is not a luxury, but a vital necessity.

18. I will not forget for you, Armenia,

I will not forgive for you, Artsakh,

I will not forgive for you, Shushi...

19. Christianity has given us something different. It is not a religion of the weak, of the poor, but of virtue.

20. A child is not a burden or a burden, but a blessing.

21. In the family, there should be no competition between the sexes or spouses, but complementarity, not right, but love...

22. We do not say "traditional family", but we say "Christian family", which is the traditional family.

"Christian family" is a family that lives by Christian values, is built on love, serves one another with care, serves and ministers with love, and has many children.