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:
Today the Armenian Church marks Holy Tuesday with an observance called the “Remembrance of the Ten Virgins.”
In his Easter message, Diocesan Primate Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan reflects on the physical and spiritual obstacles that can confront us in life, and the power to overcome them that comes from Christ’s Resurrection. Read the Primate’s message here, in English and Armenian.
This Saturday starts the most important week in the Armenian Church liturgical calendar, a period dense with unique services and ceremonies that chronicle the final week of Jesus Christ’s ministry, and lead us to his resurrection.
Holy Week signals the end of the Lenten period of separation, and a return to the full life of the church. The coming Holy Week will go forward in the Eastern Diocese with in-person worship as well as the online broadcast of services.
