“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…
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. –Jn 1:1-3 God speaks and we get it, no other creature is like this. So when we…
Krisdos Hareav ee Merelots! Christ is Risen from the Dead! Not only am I warming up the crowd with that greeting, I also intend to make this our simple and profound Easter greeting the topic of today’s sermon. Like any greeting, like ‘how are you,’ it is used so formally that it can lose its…
A Sermon for the Burial Service of Our Lord 04/02/21 Jesus’ funeral is hardly like the funeral of a king. Heads of state and religious leaders and crowds of people would honor any real king at his passing. Important people would eulogize him. Yet at the funeral of the most influential human who ever lived,…