Meaning of the Feast & Application for Today The Cross is not just a symbolic ornament to wear as a good luck charm or outward sign of our faith, rather it is a way of participating in the love of God that is stronger than any evil, even death. Armenians take this power very seriously, as evidenced by a favorite saying Sourp…

Meaning of the Feast & Application for Today Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross of Varak. Unique to the Armenian Church, this feast celebrates the burial, in the 3rd century, of an authentic relic of the cross by the founding saint of the Armenian Church, Hripsime. She buried the relic to protect it from the heathen soldiers pursuing her.…

Meaning of the Reading & Application for Today What is God’s intention for our state in life, whether married or single?Jesus deals with the issue of divorce by taking his hearers back to thebeginning of creation and to God’s plan for the human race. In Genesis 2:23-24 we see God’s intention and ideal that two people who marry shouldbecome so indissolubly one…

‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. ‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. -John 3:16-17 Old Testament Reading Epistle Reading Gospel Reading Wisdom…