This week, the 123rd Diocesan Assembly will convene at the Hilton Hotel in Woburn, MA. Holy Archangels Church of St. Michael and St. Gabriel, in Haverhill, will host the Clergy Conference (meeting April 29-May 1), and the Diocesan Assembly (meeting May 1-3), bringing together hundreds of Armenian Church leaders from the Eastern Diocese.
Thursday, April 24, will be observed by the worldwide Armenian Church as the “Feast of the Holy Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide.” Services at St. Vartan Cathedral will take place on Sunday, April 27, beginning at 10 a.m.
The Easter Sunday Divine Liturgy on April 20, 2025, at New York’s St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral rejoiced in the glorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His victory over sin and death.
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?
Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan mourned the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis in a message to the faithful of the Eastern Diocese.
