On May 14 this year, the Armenian Church will celebrate the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The day marks the ascent of our Lord into heaven, on the 40th day after his resurrection.
A Cross Appears in Eastertide
For the Feast of the Apparition of the Holy Cross (May 3), a lost sermon by the late Archbishop Tiran Nersoyan.
Retrace Your Armenian Roots: Join the Diocese’s Pilgrimage to Akhtamar
Join the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America on a once-in-a-lifetime Pilgrimage to Akhtamar: Retracing Our Armenian Roots, scheduled for September 1–12, 2026.
Ordinary Saints: Holy Apostles and Holy Martyrs
Saints and martyrs loom large in Armenian Christian spirituality. We look up to them; but could we ever be like them? Is saintliness an unattainable ideal? Or something more ordinary?
Easter at St. Vartan Cathedral: “Stay Close to God”
Through the veil of overcast skies, the newly-gilded gold dome of St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in New York City shimmered with a radiant, almost transcendent brilliance. Beneath that luminous crown, the Easter Sunday Divine Liturgy on April 5 unfolded with solemn beauty and reverence