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 4.
This year the Armenian Church liturgical calendar designates August 28 as the feast of St. Jeremiah: one of the major prophets of the Bible.
Feasts venerating the Virgin Mary occupy an entire season in the church calendar, with a special day reserved to honor her parents.
Two intellectual heavyweights met in the city of Ephesus, where the Roman Emperor Theodosius II convened the Third Ecumenical Council in A.D. 431. At stake was the future shape of orthodox Christian belief.
A single feast day in our liturgical calendar illustrates the connection between the life in Christ and the abiding concerns of human existence.
