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Sermon by Diocesan Vicar Hayr Simeon Odabashian on June 23, 2024.
Armenian Church Community of Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Florida
Sunday Worship & Fellowship: 10:30AM-1:30PM
Weekly Sermon (Page 2)
A reflection on Father’s Day by Dn. Kevork Demirjian.
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…
When we say Holy Etchmiadzin we reaffirm Orthodox and Catholics belief in sacred spaces. This includes the bricks and stones, architecture and icons of a place, as these can point to the story of God and man just as the words of the Bible do. And it is the story that is sacred. One Christian…
Words have always played a supporting role in the Armenian Apostolic Church as compared to the post reformation churches. Thus, my sermons are short and I work hard to make them so. If you don’t believe me, let’s look at the data. Pew Research Center analyzed 50,000 sermons in 2020 and here is what they…
So what is lament? The shortest definition of lament is a prayer in pain that leads to trust. The Psalms are full of Laments. Our Ter Voghormea is a lament. Beating our breast and saying Vay Indz, Vay Indz during Confession is a Lament. Gregory of Narek wrote an entire famous Book of Lamentations. Lament…
The prologue of St. John’s Gospel-in the majestic story of God that it reveals-is every bit as breathtaking as Mount Ararat and Tampa Bay. And if we are paying attention, we will be stunned by the mysterious beauty of the presence of God in Christ that emerges from it, such that we will want to…