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Dr. Roberta Ervine

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Dr. Roberta Ervine

Armenians on the Wise and Foolish Virgins

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April 15, 2019
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Jesus’ Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins is a major part of how the Armenian Church approaches Easter. We enact it not just once, but twice — in the Palm Sunday Drnbatsek service, and again on Holy Tuesday. Like …

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Dr. Roberta Ervine

Armenians and Their Cross

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September 10, 2018
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As individuals, as a Church and as a nation Armenians take the cross very personally. Jerusalem’s Patriarch Torkom Koushagian once said We Armenians have completely identified our cross with our soul….We have all shared in its experience and kept it …

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Dr. Roberta Ervine

Gregory of Narek and Mary: Mother of God, Mother of Light, Mother of the Word

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September 5, 2018
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It may be difficult for some of us to warm up to the idea of Mary, the Virgin Mother of God. Perhaps we were raised under the influence of traditions less hospitable to the notion of a human who became …

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Dr. Roberta Ervine

On Being the Last of the Line: the Vision of Catholicos Sahak I (387-428)

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February 3, 2018
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Sahak I Bart’ew was born into a high level of moral obligation. He inherited it. As the only son of the great Catholicos Nerses I Pahlavuni (353-373), known to posterity as Nerses the Great, Sahak had his father’s very big …

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Dr. Roberta Ervine

How to Set Your Life on Fire

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January 16, 2018
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St. Anthony of the Egyptian Desert, a contemporary of Gregory the Illuminator, is revered across all Christian traditions as the man who set the paradigm for ascetic spiritual living in all its manifestations. As The Father of Monastics, he looms …

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