“This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased.” (Mt 3:17) Gabriel Garcia Marques, in his classic 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, writes about a village in Central America. A virus strikes this community and the virus causes amnesia. It becomes necessary to hire people from the outside world to…
Often our lives take us in a different direction than we wanted, a worse direction it seems, until we grow to see our situation with the eyes of God. This is not the work of one sermon, this is the work of a lifetime. To guide us in this spiritual re-orientation, I want to use…
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…