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).
‘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…
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…