On April 9, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, celebrated a Pontifical Divine Liturgy at St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Yerevan, on Easter Sunday: the Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Today is Holy Saturday. Jesus was crucified yesterday. He will rise tomorrow. But what is happening today?
Today is Holy Friday: the most solemn day of the Armenian Church calendar, recalling the suffering, execution, and death of our Lord. These events are memorialized with readings from the psalms and gospels. Here are the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ last moments on the Cross:
In his Easter message, Diocesan Primate Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan looks at a world in desperate need of restoration, and asks: “What power is great enough to make us what we were meant to be?” Read the Primate’s message here, in English and Armenian.
April 7 is the fixed date for the Armenian Church’s celebration of the “Annunciation to the Virgin Mary”
