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 today, September 3.
New York’s St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral will hold a special service on the evening of Sunday, September 13, to honor the major feast day known as Khatchveratz, or the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Feasts venerating the Virgin Mary occupy an entire season in the church calendar, with a special day reserved to honor her parents.
This year the Armenian Church liturgical calendar designates August 27 as the feast of St. Jeremiah: one of the major prophets of the Bible.
In his sermon on the Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Mother-of-God, Bishop Daniel Findikyan urged listeners to search for what brings true joy to life—even amid the restrictions of the ongoing pandemic crisis.
