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,…
Meet the men who first conquered Ararat! Mount Ararat has held a sacred fascination since the dawn of history. But it was not until the 19th century that any human being dared to conquer Ararat’s 17,000-foot elevation, and reach the summit. The story of that daring expedition is the subject of “Scaling Ararat,” the latest…
A young woman on the run. A beastly king obsessed by her beauty. And the destiny of a kingdom hanging in the balance. Watch the story of St. Hripsime and her sisters, whose martyrdom brought a king to ruin, and brought Armenia to the brink of a revolution in faith.
In a nation of martyrs, she was the first: Santukhd, a royal princess who defied her father the king to worship Christ. Her death at a tender age set the Armenians on the path to become the world’s first Christian nation.
Armenian Church history was made in 2015 when the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide were ceremonially recognized as holy saints. The splendid service at Holy Etchmiadzin marked the first time in centuries that new saints were designated in the Armenian Church. With their canonization, the Genocide martyrs joined other great exemplars of holiness, virtue, and…
THE EASTER MESSAGE OF ARCHBISHOP KHAJAG BARSAMIAN -Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America Peter was sitting in the outdoor courtyard when a maid came up to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before everyone, saying, “I don’t know what you mean.” ……