Meaning of the Feast & Application for Today Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross of Varak. Unique to the Armenian Church, this feast celebrates the burial, in the 3rd century, of an authentic relic of the cross by the founding saint of the Armenian Church, Hripsime. She buried the relic to protect it from the heathen soldiers pursuing her.…

Meaning of the Reading & Application for Today What is God’s intention for our state in life, whether married or single?Jesus deals with the issue of divorce by taking his hearers back to thebeginning of creation and to God’s plan for the human race. In Genesis 2:23-24 we see God’s intention and ideal that two people who marry shouldbecome so indissolubly one…

Meaning of the Feast & Application for Today Today on the exaltation of the Cross-through mid November-we remember the cross of Christ. Human beings are forgetful creatures. If we don’t regularly remind ourselves of what we have been through, who we have known and what we have become, we are bound to forget. One of the oldest and best ways of remembering…