A pastoral message from Fr. Daniel Findikyan, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern).
A pastoral message from Fr. Daniel Findikyan, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern).
The Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Mother-of-God commemorates how St. Mary at her death was taken up in body and soul, or “assumed,” into heaven. This act of tenderness was performed by Christ many years after his Ascension, as a loving tribute to the mother who bore and raised him. On this feast…
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Lament Brings Us Closer to God in Worship So I had a hard time bringing this sermon series to an end, I could have gone in a lot of directions. I didn’t even get a chance to Gregory of Narek and his lamentations, and I thought we might get into talking about Lament and the…
Introduction Last week we got into the book of Psalms and got very practically into what composes a Lament, that it is has an address to God, a complaint, a request, a push for God to act and then ends in confidence that God will provide. Last session, by the way, was a very Modern,…
The first episode of “Faith Matters”—a new Diocesan video series tackling contemporary issues—tells the story of one church member’s struggle against addiction, and the hope she discovered in her community of faith.
Resources: People should have a Badarak book and a Handout of Psalm 13 (see below) Introduction We talked about how society and people get sick when Lament is absent in our first session, that our society encourages us to stuff down, deny, avoid pain instead of dealing with it, but that if we don’t transform…