Weekly Sermons from St. Hagop Armenian Church features the weekly talks by Fr. Hovnan Demerjian during our Sunday Morning service. Please do share sermons or offer your comments!
The title of this sermon, ‘Why Are You Angry?’ is the first question God asked outside of the Garden of Eden, directed to Cain. If Cain was able to respond to God, the world would be a different place. Instead, Cain didn’t know how to deal with his anger, how to confess it to God,…
According to the Armenian tradition, Apkar, King of Edessa, is the first king who during the lifetime of our Lord Jesus Christ heard of His miracles and believed that He is in fact the Son of God. Based on the historical sources of Movses Khorenatsi, the Armenian Church recognizes Apkar as a king of Armenia.…
This past week I was feeling a bit disheartened, as I often do, about life in church leadership. The causes are the normal stuff of church life, but they just got to me this past week. I’m spending hours on a high-level church committee, but we aren’t going anywhere fast and I’m not sure anyone…
This is second Sunday in August that we honor the mother of our Lord. Since her Son is the all-important figure in God’s plan, there is very little in the Bible about Mary. But from what is written we can learn much. Our reading for today contains Mary’s own view of her humble position, and…
I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing…My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. Jn 15:5,8 We all know the old expression that “it’s not what you know,…
Once there was an artist who for many decades was in search of the perfect figure to draw on his blank canvas. One day as he was traveling abroad he stumbled upon a gorgeous statue, the likes of which he had never seen before in all his years of artistry. He thought to himself, “Alas,…
What God has joined together let no man tear asunder—Mt 19:6 The wedding industry is nearly a 74 billion-dollar industry in the United States and it has come to a crashing standstill due to Covid-19. Since our church runs a wedding venue business, we too have been hurt by this disruption. But we as Christians…