They scare us with war, material losses, death. Saint Bagrat

God says FEAR NOT

"And what does Savior say? "Do not be afraid of the words that you heard."

Don't be afraid of those words. Fear is already the DEATH of a person.

What are we afraid of? What are our fears? What do we have to lose personally or collectively that we fear?

What do we have to gain that we don't put our fears together?

The source is our UNFORMED fears.

They scare us, and we adapt to it.

They scare us with war, they scare us with material losses, they scare us with death.

Man should fear his death every day, because every day, inevitably, it is reserved for man to die. A person does not know only the time and the form, the way, the place, the weather.

The thought of fear of death must be very common for us. Death can be not necessarily in wars, but in an ordinary, incomprehensible, as we always describe it, senseless way.

Do we submit to that idea of death or do we want to submit? Do we become mere observers of our own fears and our own death, or do we become actors to conquer our own fears and our own death?

This is an existential question, and we as people and as a collective are called to answer this question."

Saint Bagrat

Diocese of Tavush