Prayer of Thanks and Pomegranate Blessing for the New Year
27.12.2017
Under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; a Prayer of Thanks and Blessing of Pomegranates will be offered for the New Year. The service will be offered at midnight 31 December, the Eve of the New Year, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and all the churches of the Armenian Church.
The government of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh has donated pomegranates to the Mother Cathedral for the Blessing of the Pomegranate. In the Armenian tradition, the pomegranate is a national symbol representing life, abundance and prosperity.
The faithful are invited to participate in the Prayer of Thanks and the Pomegranate-blessing.
