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Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

When Words Fail

There is not, and there never will be an easy way to talk about the Armenian Genocide, because this was a great and complex evil that is beyond normal words to describe. That’s why perhaps the most accurate way to describe the Armenian Genocide is the original term used in our language Mets Yeghern. “Great Calamity” is how this term is usually translated, but Yeghern is more open-ended; suggesting this event was so evil, that we can’t quite yet define it.  Like our God of great goodness, our trial of great evil is in some ways sacred, it is a mystery, and should not be touched lightly. You cannot grasp the genocide and get easily over it, you can only be grasped by it and-by the grace of God- get through it.

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