If for you, like most people, the Narek Millennium came and passed in 2001 and not much changed, it’s not too late. This Lent what we acquire may be more important than what we give up: Reclaim the Narek as our national heritage, and the Narek will reclaim our nation. And maybe one day we’ll awake and feel a sense of expectation that we want to share with the world just as a certain vigilant monk did a thousand years ago.
You can find the entire full-text-searchable Narek in English at www.stgregoryofnarek.am, together with a calendar of daily readings for Lent. (This article appeared in AIM Magazine in March 2004).
If you like to listen to a selection of Narek’s prayers and follow along, you can find recitations in Classical Armenian with English translations at Youtube.
