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Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

Old & In the Way

‘You may think at first that this old music, this ancient church is irrelevant, just ‘in the way.’  But listen a few more times, come to worship and fellowship with us for a while and you will find that this old music, this old church is ‘in the Way’ with a capital W, meaning ‘in the spirit, in the zone, in the flow of creation.’  It taps into the deepest, oldest sources of music, the deepest, oldest sources of meaning making in our lives.  You see all dedicated artists, all dedicated faithful are well aware that there is nothing new in art and life, the sources of art and life are old.  We don’t invent them, but discover them, rediscover them again and again by tapping into the oldest sources of life and making them our own.  ‘What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again,’ we read in Ecclesiastes, ‘there is nothing new under the sun.’ Ec 1:9.  All that is true and good is much older and greater than us. There is no new way that is all that interesting, just the way that we can tap into and rediscover for ourselves. 

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