Clergyman addresses message 

ArmInfo.  Times, rulers, and circumstances change, but our Lord is unchanging. His truth is not subject to fear, nor His righteousness to slander. This was the message addressed by Father Vrtanes Baghalyan, primate of St. Hovhannes Church in Byurakan.

According to him, when God sends people mentors, spiritual shepherds,  they become a light on everyone's path. "However, today our hearts  grieve, because our beloved Father Garegin, as well as the head of  the diocese, Mkrtich Proshyan, are far from us, enduring the  sufferings of unjust exile and imprisonment. And if our primate is  now far away, then Christ, our Lord and spiritual Shepherd, is  present with us. Today, when many are in confusion, not knowing whom  to believe, whom to follow, we are called not to be carried away, and  not to weaken. We must be strengthened not by external food, material  or worldly words, but by the grace and power of the Holy Spirit.  Therefore, dear believers, in these days of trial, remember your  mentors not with sorrow, but with faith. Pray for them, that the Lord  will strengthen them in the hour of despair, as He strengthened the  Apostle Paul in prison, the Apostle Peter in chains, and our holy  martyrs in darkness. Pray also for your hearts, that they be filled  not with bitterness, but with grace, for only "By grace may the heart  endure. May the eternal Word of the Lord be our guide, and may His  unfailing presence strengthen us in this holy place. Let us remember  our shepherds imprisoned, and let us also remember the Cross, on  which the same injustice resurrected the Son of God, but by this very  Cross death was conquered.  May our prayer ascend to heaven for our  Patriarch, bishops, priests, our people, and the entire Church. And  may the unfailing love of Christ preserve us in the unity of faith,  now and ever and unto the ages of ages," noted Vrtanes Bagalyan.