“And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven.”—Mt 23:9 This is definitely a saying of Jesus that you will not find on any hallmark Father’s Day cards. It also might be the last reading you would expect as we celebrate father’s day today, especially from me a…
It seems that nowadays there is a podcast on every topic (including my personal favorite St. Hagop sermons). I stumbled upon one last week which resonated with wisdom, especially with today’s feast of Pentecost. The podcast is called ‘We regret to inform you: the rejection podcast,’ with over one hundred episodes about people who are…
Today’s reading from this week’s feast of Ascension, begins with an odd question. Two angels of God ask the Apostles “Why do you stand staring into heaven?” Odd question, because they have just witnessed their teacher Jesus lifted up and into the clouds. It would seem natural to stare. But I don’t think they were…
Voices are trustworthy and deeply personal, and since God made everything including us, he knows this. So does his Son Jesus, which is why he uses the metaphor of voice recognition of a loved one to describe the intimate bond he wishes to have with us his faithful. Jesus illustrates the bond in the case…
There is always a choice in what we want to see and hear, and as God’s children we don’t always make the wisest choices. We tend to hear what we want to hear and see what we want to see, because we don’t know any better. Yet our Scriptures, our church and our Lord continually…
In this way you could say that the Armenian church has always been like a “recycle bin,” a “repurposing bin” for its people and for individuals. We come to church, confessing and putting aside our old sinful selves, and through communion with God, He recycles and repurposes us for a new week to do His…
The danger in dealing with loss, and where our faith is absolutely crucial—is that we can easily get stuck in our loss, in our grief; I see it all the time and it happens to me too. We can be so diligent to remember and preserve the past, that we forget to live in the…