Message of His Holiness Karekin II on Feast of the Holy Nativity and Theophany of Jesus Christ

6/1/2013 Message of His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians On the Feast of the Holy Nativity and Theophany of our Lord Jesus Christ Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, January 6, 2013 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated ‘God with us’.” Matthew 1:23 / Isaiah 7:14 Dear and Beloved Faithful, Today, with boundless joy in our souls, we glorify and praise the Holy Nativity and Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, by conveying to one another the greeting: “Christ is Born and Revealed, great tidings to all”. In the fullness of time, the words of the Prophet Isaiah came to fruition, “Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated ‘God with us’”. From the insurmountable heights of heaven, our beneficent Lord humbled Himself and was born as an infant in the cave; he made himself poor in order to enrich us with blessings.