In a typical season, clergy visit their parishioners to perform the “Home Blessing” in the period following the Feast of the Lord’s Nativity. The past few years have hardly been “typical” for many families. But as active life resumes, Home Blessings can play a vital role in spiritual life.
The Armenian Christmas Divine Liturgy on Saturday, January 6, 2024, at New York’s St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral once again brought the Armenian Christian family together to mark the Feast of the Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Armenian Church celebrates the holy birth (Sourp Dznunt) of Jesus Christ on January 6. In Armenian tradition, this feast day commemorates not only the birth of Christ, but also His baptism by John the Baptist.
In a message for Christmas, Bishop Mesrop reflects on what it means to call Jesus Christ the “Prince of Peace.” Read it in English and Armenian here.
Scholars from around the world met in Rome to discuss one of the greatest saints of the Armenian Church, in a gathering titled “Plenitude of Grace, Plenitude of Humanity: St. Nerses Shnorhali at the Juncture of Millennia.”
