10 Oct

The most important thing is to be amongst Armenians, to protect each others' chastity and virginity, and to give birth to Armenian children without the burden of sexual immorality which causes tragedy, creates great violence in interpersonal dynamics, and stains the image of the Armenian soul and body. 

Make an effort to keep Armenians together, not to offer a woman to a non Armenian. It is not a club. It is survival and the flourishing of your own self, what is common amongst us all for ages and ages, our own DNA, and that binds us as one people through millennia predating the birth of Christ and stretching back as no other race has or can to the ark of Noah and his great grandson Hayk Nahabed. Our ties to our ancestors have been maintained as no other nation has, as scholars even have shown and proven. 

Within the bounds of this mind, we may be proud of our heritage, proud of ourselves, proud of our nation, and proud of being who we are individually and as a people who have traversed time and adversity as saints, as kings, as servants of God, as holy princes, monarchs, and princesses, as soldiers and warriors, as builders of civilization, as undergirding of the earth and of the world, as pillars of humanity, as lights shining in the darkness. 

Be loyal, be chaste, and be faithful to yourself, your countrymen and women, for anything otherwise is a temptation and a hypnotism of this age and of the foreign country in which you live. All is in vain without the Armenian spirit within, for we are not so by name, or by third or fourth generation, but for thousands upon thousands of years having maintained the bloodline of our forefathers. 

And in doing so, we may radiate not only as sons of God, as daughters of Jesus Christ, but doing so as Armenians and not as a whitewashed and defeated people, not clinging to Christ as a crutch but rather as conquerors and emissaries of the Good News to the world, or as sacrificial offerings, a fragrance to God, an offering of our bodies, of holy Armenian blood. 

Many churches have been stripped of their color, whitewashed, yet we as the body of Christ, his living members, are temples of the Holy Spirit, who must seek to protect ourselves from defilement and erasure and to pursue the vision of an Armenia that ever flourishes and shows the world the face of God through our own.

It takes the support and strength of the men to bind us, and the loyalty and purity of our women to preserve us.