In the Armenian liturgical calendar, autumn is the Season of the Holy Cross. The months of September and October are punctuated with celebrations and fasts dedicated to the Cross of Jesus Christ, and its mysterious power.
Primate Leads Inspiring Exaltation of the Cross Service at St. Vartan Cathedral
Florence Avakian reports on this week’s special service at St. Vartan Cathedral, which projected hope in a time of affliction.
Join the “Khatchveratz” Evening Service on Sep. 13
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.
Getting to “We Believe”
It was the great religious “confab” of the 4th century: a gathering of Christian bishops from throughout the world, convened by no less an authority than the Roman Emperor Constantine I.
Accuser and Accused
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.