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,…
And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. -1 Jn 5:14-15 Many of the great surviving churches and monasteries of the…
I love recycling. Yes papers and plastics at church which, with Teresa Haidarian’s help, we have done for a while at the church office. Yes paper and plastics at home which, since Narek was three we used to take personally to the recycling center. But my love of recycling goes deeper than just curbside recycling. …
Nearly a thousand years after his death, his influence is still felt every day in the Armenian Church. The soaring hymns that praise God, the sensitive prayers that beg His forgiveness, the policies of mercy and outreach that guide the operations of the church—all bear the mark of St. Nersess Shnorhali. His title Shnorhali means “full of grace”—and the…
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, saying: The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. Therefore say to them…Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you…Zech 1:1-3 This week in the Armenian Church sacred calendar, Tuesday…
“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…
A pastoral message from Fr. Daniel Findikyan, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern).