A reflection on Father’s Day by Dn. Kevork Demirjian.
Armenian Church Community of Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Florida
Sunday Worship & Fellowship: 10:30AM-1:30PM
Sermons on Father's Day
Next Sunday is Father’s day. A nice American tradition, but not very old, it was just made official in 1972. Next Sunday, and every Sunday is Father’s day in our much older, 2000 year old church tradition. Kiraki is the Lord’s Day, God the Father’s Day. One things both traditions hold in common is it…
As I struggled this week to get words on paper, I remembered again that, by any metric, Mother’s Day beats Father’s Day. Mother’s Day was made a holiday back in 1913, Father’s Day took all the way till 1972. Average weekend spending for mother’s day $300, average for Father’s day $200. Hallmark sells 50 million…
Fr. Richard Rohr, a Catholic spiritual writer and Franciscan monk, tells a powerful story about father’s day from his first days in prison ministry; work he would continue for 15 years. He recalls the first time that mothers’ day came around, how the inmates were all eager to write a letter back home to mom.…