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!
They say the whale swallowed Jonah/ Out in the deep blue sea? Sometimes I get that feeling/That same old whale has swallowed me If you’re like me, you also sometimes get that feeling, that same old whale has swallowed you. The circumstances vary for each of us, you might feel overwhelmed and stuck in a…
“I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” –Matthew 12:7 Next Sunday is Father’s day. I expect that many of you, like me, who are blessed to have your father still living, might be scrambling to try to get something for your father to show your love. Well I am finding that the older a person becomes, the…
“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.” Nelson Mandela made this joke after he became president of South Africa, the same country which had imprisonment him unfairly for 27 years for his opposition to the racist government. Nikol Pashinian might appreciate this joke. In 2015, he finished a seven-year prison…
“But when (Elisha) could no longer see (Elijah), he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. He picked up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.” 2 Kings 2: 12-13 Today is the Feast of Elijah, the 1st Sunday after…
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Acts 2:4 Today we celebrate Pentecost, the birth of the church, that miraculous day when God’s blessings poured down upon the apostles and the church tasted God’s goodness. But before we get too…
“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.” Is 66:13 We speak of God the father dozens of times in liturgy, i.e…our doxology begins “Park Hor—Glory to the Father…” This is proper, of course, as the Bible speaks of God repeatedly as a father. But today…
‘These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also…”—Acts 17:6 In today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles, the Romans and Jews who were in political and religious power at the time are accusing Paul, Silas and all the followers of Jesus of turning the world upside down. That…