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What is it exactly that the children are able to see that the adults cannot? In a word, love. Yes, Shakespeare wrote beautifully about love. Troubadours like Sayat Nova and Charles Aznavour gave song to love. Moses and Mohammed gave laws about love. But Jesus, like no one before him or since, embodied love-lived it…
6 Week Lenten Sermon Series (February 15th-March 22nd) Worship in the Armenian Church is a life-giving encounter with God, but only as much as we’ve learned it’s language, movements and meaning. After our shorter Lenten Badarak, and in place of a sermon, Fr. Hovnan will lead an interactive study to help us find our voice…
6 Week Lenten Sermon Series (February 15th-March 22nd) Worship in the Armenian Church is a life-giving encounter with God, but only as much as we’ve learned it’s language, movements and meaning. After our shorter Lenten Badarak, and in place of a sermon, Fr. Hovnan will lead an interactive study to help us find our voice…
6 Week Lenten Sermon Series (February 15th-March 22nd) Worship in the Armenian Church is a life-giving encounter with God, but only as much as we’ve learned it’s language, movements and meaning. After our shorter Lenten Badarak, and in place of a sermon, Fr. Hovnan will lead an interactive study to help us find our voice…
A woman is walking on the beach with her little grandson. Suddenly a huge wave sweeps the boy out to sea. Desperate, the woman looks up to heaven and says, “God, please rescue my grandson, my only grandson, the light of my life!” Miraculously, the next big wave deposits the little boy at her feet,…
As I often say, where a lot of other churches modern churches just say and understand things, old churches like ours actually recall, represent these holy people and places in icons, worship and architecture-as living realities that are still with us. We shape our church, then our church shapes us.
Life is full of turning points and so are our Holy Scriptures. There are always points in life where you might have gone one way or the other, and in choosing, things were never the same again. Or, as is often the case, we don’t choose events–sometimes events chose us.