Our modern avoidance of silence surely does all kinds of bad things to intimacy between partners, to people’s mental health and young people’s development, but perhaps its greatest ill effect is on our spiritual development. Because all old Christian traditions, including ours, have always maintained the key role silence plays in our spiritual development. Its…
On my way back from a family funeral service for Nora Keuroghlian, God rest her kind soul, I passed a sign in front of a humble church with the phrase “God’s ‘no’ is not a rejection but a redirection.” Funny that a sign on Curlew road can reveal wisdom for our everyday lives which also penetrates the depths of God’s relationship…
And this is the confidence we have in God, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. –1 Jn. 5:13-21 We get a fair amount of visitors and newcomers to…
“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.” Is 66:13 We speak of God the father dozens of times in liturgy, i.e…our doxology begins “Park Hor—Glory to the Father…” This is proper, of course, as the Bible speaks constantly of God as a father. But today…
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.’ (1 Jn 1:7) Today is the 3rd Sunday after Easter. The 1st Sunday after Easter is called green Sunday and the 2nd Sunday, last Sunday,…
Our church does indeed believe in recycling and has been earth friendly for over seventeen hundred years. But we also believe in recycling on a much deeper level, which goes to the heart of what it means to be Armenian Orthodox Christians. You see we don’t just recycle things, we repurpose them. These vestments I…
Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers. Acts 9:31 ‘The shoe must never tell the foot how big it should grow.’ This is a good bit of wisdom about…