This Sunday will be observed as Father’s Day across the United States: a chance to reflect, with gratitude, on the deeper meaning of fatherhood. While the surrounding popular culture may sometimes fail to treat fatherhood with due seriousness, the Armenian Church accords great reverence and respect to fathers.
In a stirring outdoor ceremony at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, a new cross was blessed and raised to the peak of the Mother Cathedral, as part of its ongoing restoration.
With the Feast of St. Vartan being celebrated this week (on February 20), the Eastern Diocese has dusted off a video treasure from its archives: a vintage episode of the “Lamp Unto My Feet” television series, retelling the dramatic story of Vartan and the Battle of Avarayr.
Students of the Eastern Diocese’s Khrimian Lyceum entered 2020 by resuming their monthly Armenian classes at the Diocesan Center in New York.
Of all of Christ’s miracles, his walking on water is the most uncanny. What does it mean, that Jesus could do this? Even for a miracle, it is so unexpected, so contrary to everyday experience.
