“Mothers are the ambassadors of God’s love and providence on earth,” wrote the saintly Patriarch Shnork Kaloustian in this classic Mother’s Day homily.
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