Our high-rank clergymen need to get used to current situation, when they are not beyond criticism, and when we, the ordinary believers, express our dissatisfaction regarding their, to say the least, intemperate behavior.
However, the criticism is beautiful within its reasonable limits; there is nothing sound in rude and arrogant attacks of the Catholicos and the Holy See. Calling my church leader a “devil” is sacrilege, obscenity and injustice. Apart from everything, it is offensive, first of all, to me as a representative of given faith. (To the point, despite knowing that ardent opponents ‘are going to attack”, I must say that I support the harshest critics of present or former presidents, but insulting, humiliating qualification are unpleasant to me, they offend my dignity as a citizen). Karekin II is not a devil at all, he is a ordinary Armenian high-ranking official with the mercenaries typical to given environment, with intellectual level and with completely lack of “spiritual fire”.
The current Patriarch is neither the first nor the last Catholicos of our history, who does not have the qualities of being a spiritual leader. Bishop at Shirak Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Michael Ajapahyan, to confirm that “who is not an Apostolic, he is not an Armenian”, in my opinion, a wrong and splitting thesis, says that to understand the music of Komitas you definitely need to be a man of our faith. Let’s leave aside the circumstance that in this case to understand Bach’s music you should be a Catholic, and thus we admit by default that Bach belong only to Catholics, and Komitas is only ours. I just wanted to remind how the relations of our prominent musician and “bosses” of the Holy See are arranged after the death of Catholicos Khrimian Hayrik. They were relations between the talented individual and average, spiritually self-contained leaders. Thus, “shining” among the priests are as rare as in other specialties.
… As a response to my criticism to the high clergymen, the following “murderous” counterargument is usually brought: “and are you perfect to write such things, first, consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye.” Of course, there are thousands logical answers to it, but I will try to find the shortest. No, I am not perfect, I am too far from being perfect. We all have a long way to go. His Holiness, too.
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