Hard though it is to believe, a quarter-century has now elapsed since that infamous day: September 11, 2001. Today we offer prayers to God for His mercy, protection, and remembrance, as across our nation, people solemnly commemorate the passage of 25 years.
The Eastern Diocese’s “Pilgrimage to Akhtamar: Retracing Our Armenian Roots” reached its spiritual high point this week, when Diocesan Primate Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the 10th-century Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island.
In the shadow of that infamous date, September 11, we offer a meditation on the reality of suffering, and the power of the Cross in Armenian Christian spirituality.
On September 8, the worldwide Armenian Church celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of the Holy Mother-of-God.
The Armenian Church calendar occasionally gives us an unlikely pairing of saints on a single feast day: an “odd couple” who don’t quite fit together. That’s the case with the day dedicated to St. John the Forerunner and Job the Righteous—observed this year on September 3.
