The General Epistle

...for us, the Haykazuni [Armenians], a wakening and forestalling Grace for the future glory and for the eternal kingdom, in an immaculate and joyful [manner], inspired by the meters of Homer referring to Nerses of Lambron, a contemporary and namesake of the Patriarch. So that, having been intoxicated by this soul-healing tenderness, you may be able to grasp the measure of this Blessed Person, the Holiness of his Life, the Orthodoxy of his confessions, and the unapproachable intellect in his Truths, [a guide] that is a clear path for us, this most holy Patriarch.
For the blessing of the divine-touched [is] the inheritance of the great and the godlike.

And in your benefiting from this, remember in your prayers the one who prepared [this]: Joseph, the unworthy Archbishop of the northern regions, a God-kept lover [of the faith]. He is a native of Sis, a leader of the Holy See of Metsnak, and a student of the soul-illuminated Patriarch Simeon the Great, an indefatigable striver for the radiance of my beloved Nation.

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