As we were setting up for a wedding last week, the videographer asked me for the password to use our internet. I gave him our password which ends in 333. Why 333 he asked? Wait till you see the sacrament, I said, then you’ll know. In the Armenian Church, echoing the Holy Trinity, we say…
Father Garabed Kochakian will present icons in the Armenian Miniature tradition which describe each day of Holy Week as they are commemorated and liturgically celebrated by showing images that tell the story of our Easter Journey during this Great Lent season. Along with examples of the sacred images painted on the pages of the Illuminated…
The last time we were all together, we were having a great time. There were two big weddings and a baptism to celebrate, it was Poon Parekendan, the day of good living. We ate, drank and were merry, because God blessed creation into existence and called everything good. When we woke up this morning, however,…
Lent is that season in the life of the church where we’re invited to pay attention to our hunger, to those yearnings that we might use to move us toward what is better for us, our deepest hunger, which is for God. During Lent, we join Jesus in his forty days of disconcerting hunger in…
In 2021 I gave fifty-two sermons, using exactly 58,418 words, an average of about one thousand words per Sunday. Using a word frequency calculator, I found the top words in the St. Hagop year in search were God, Church, Jesus; People, Life, Time; One, Word, First…Love (2x). I laid this out in a beautiful graphic…
These questions of God arising from broken expectations and broken hearts somehow allow us to enter into the mystery of manna; the bread which falls from heaven. Somehow, like the Hebrews in the wilderness, we must come to the end of our own abilities to provide for ourselves, to take control of our lives, to…