‘It is I; do not be afraid.’ –Jn 6:20 There is a parable from the ancient East about a deadly disease that meets up with a large family travelling by caravan to Baghdad. ‘Why are you travelling to Baghdad?’ asked the family elder. ‘To take five thousand lives,’ said the disease. On the way back, they…
Armenian Genocide Martyrs Service & Sermon Livestream on April 24th, 2020 from St. Hagop Armenian Church.
A video of Fr. Hovnan Demerjian’s message to CENTCOM international representatives on the occasion of Armenian Army Day, Jan 30, 2019.
Lament Brings Us Closer to God in Worship So I had a hard time bringing this sermon series to an end, I could have gone in a lot of directions. I didn’t even get a chance to Gregory of Narek and his lamentations, and I thought we might get into talking about Lament and the…
Introduction Last week we got into the book of Psalms and got very practically into what composes a Lament, that it is has an address to God, a complaint, a request, a push for God to act and then ends in confidence that God will provide. Last session, by the way, was a very Modern,…
Resources: People should have a Badarak book and a Handout of Psalm 13 (see below) Introduction We talked about how society and people get sick when Lament is absent in our first session, that our society encourages us to stuff down, deny, avoid pain instead of dealing with it, but that if we don’t transform…
Introduction “Learning Lament” Has a PR Problem Our sermon series is called Learning Lament, and I will admit to you right off the bat that I realize the title has a PR problem. People either don’t know what Lament is, or they have negative associations with it. When I told the altar servers that the…