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!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. Mk 12:30 Are you a head person, a heart person or a gut person? This summarizes in one question our entire Lenten study using the spiritual personality typing of…
‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”—Matt 21:16 Most children seem to be more comfortable using computers than their parents are. That’s what makes the ad slogan of a recent tablet manufacturer so funny: “So easy, even an adult can operate it!” (And if they still have problems,…
I remember when I was little that I looked forward to my Dad coming home from work. I would watch and wait and listen for the sound of his car, for the garage door opening. I would run to him and give him a hug and would follow him to his closet as he got…
Will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Luke 18:7 A Roman Catholic invites his Armenian priest friend to join him in the confession booth, to see what it is like. A penitent enters on the other side, saying, “Bless me, father, for I have sinned this…
The Sunday of the Steward When I was still a deacon-on the path to becoming an ordained priest-I was extended the honor to guest preach in several churches. I thought it was a coincidence that on three occasions I was asked to preach about today’s parable of the unjust steward. Now, as a priest myself,…
Last week we reminded ourselves that this blessed time of year, Great Lent, is a season of fasting and giving things up, but only as a means to an end. We give things up, we lose some things we love, in order to find again what we most love. In the ancient language of spiritual…
On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, “Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.”’Jn 7:37-38 Today’s reading begins…