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Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

613 ‘Can I’s’

‘Can I, can I, can I….’ If you are a parent or spent any time around kids, you have been through this phase with your children.  It seems from our youngest days we are hardwired to seek and test the boundaries of what we can and can’t do; it’s how we learn and grow and…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

Apprentices

We have a strong system of higher education in the United States, which also has significant problems in need of reform. The most obvious problem we all see about college is its price tag. ‘College is the opposite of kidnapping. They demand $100,000 from you or else they’ll send your kid back!’  College gets lots…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

God is Missing

As you may know, I like to have a joke in my sermons from time to time. I recently found out that today on Easter Sunday, it is even more appropriate. It is actually a long standing tradition in some Eastern Orthodox churches for the priests to come prepared with a joke on Easter Sunday.…

The Spirituality of Fasting

In recent times, fasting has become popular for its health effects alone, but it is first of all a spiritual discipline. The Sharagan of Poon Paregentan remind us that fasting was the first commandment given to mankind, when God commanded Adam and Eve to refrain from eating a certain fruit from a certain tree (Gen.…