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WRITINGS OF BISHOP MESROP PARSAMYAN
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CHOOSING LOVE OVER JUDGMENT

Our society is quick to judge. Just turn on the TV, scroll through social media, and you’ll see it everywhere—people tearing each other down, pointing fingers, casting blame. It’s almost like it’s become second nature to us. But that’s not the life God has called us to live.

God has called us to a higher standard. He’s called us to love, to build each other up, and to see the best in one another. That’s not always easy in a world where judgment is so prevalent, but it’s the path that leads to true peace, true joy, and true fulfillment.

This Week in Armenian History
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DEATH OF CATHOLICOS COADJUTOR PAPKEN I

Archbishop Papken Guleserian was one of the prolific members of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the first decades of the past century, reaching the throne of the Catholicosate of the Great House Cilicia, when death interrupted his life at the age of 68.

He was born Harutiun Guleserian on March 5, 1868, in Aintab. After attending the local Vartanian School in 1885-1889, հe continued his studies at the Armash Seminary for the next seven years and graduated in 1896. He was ordained celibate priest in 1895, adopting the ecclesiastic name of Papken, and subsequently received the degrees of archimandrite (1896) and archimandrite superior (1897). He was a preacher in Constantinople for a year and then was appointed locum tenens of the diocese of Samsun.

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