On March 19-20, 2016, St. Hagop Church held its 5th Annual Armenian Festival/Bazaar. This video captures the spirit of this weekend attracting parishioners and neighbors from far and wide. Join us for next year’s festival, tentatively scheduled for Feb 25-26, 2017!
The fourth video in the series “Bread and Salt: Stories from the Armenian Church.” Experience the mystery and meaning of the Turen-Patzek (door-opening) service, which is performed at Armenian churches across the world on Palm Sunday.
In the third episode of the Eastern Diocese’s new video series, “Bread and Salt: Stories from the Armenian Church,” Kathryn Ashbahian speaks about Great Lent.
In the second episode of the Eastern Diocese’s new video series, “Bread and Salt: Stories from the Armenian Church,” Eric Vozzy explains the significance of the “Home Blessing” service.
… He inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem of Judea,” they told him; “for so it has been written by the prophet: ‘And you, O Bethlehem, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah. For from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people…
In this inaugural episode of a new educational video series, St. Nersess Seminary graduate Kathryn Ashbahian explains the symbolism of the “Water Blessing” service performed in the Armenian Church on January 6, the Feast of the Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord.
The Armenian Church canonized the holy martyrs of the Armenian Genocide at Holy Etchmiadzin on April 23, 2015, in observance of the 100th anniversary of that cataclysm. This video explores the significance of that canonization, as well as the larger meaning of sainthood and martyrdom in the Christian tradition.