Saturday, March 28 – Lenten Journey 2020 Day 34 of 40
Amidst the Lenten Journey are occasions to reflect on those
who have traveled before us. Today the Armenian Church commemorates St. Gregory
the Illuminator’s imprisonment (289-301 AD) in a place we now refer to as
“Khorvirab.” Stories such as this are wrapped in their historical parameters.
Their value is that they talk to us – to each generation in its own times.
Today as a world, we are imprisoned by the effects of a pandemic which takes us
into a pit of despair, hopelessness and even death. The story of St. Gregory
the Illuminator’s 13 year imprisonment teaches the value of discipline, prayer
and hope in the Lord – the same ingredients to overcome our own and collective
prisons. Jesus instructs that certain evils can “Only be overcome by prayer and
fasting.” (Mark 9:29)
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