Before experiencing the ARMENIA! Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York City last Fall, I had been in a prolonged season of feeling displaced, homeless. I had even traveled back to my hometown of Cleveland with …
The Christmas season is a time for getting together with family and friends. These reunions are intended to be a time to rejoice. However, for many people, the holidays are filled with tension. In today’s charged political climate many worry …
The calendar of the Armenian Church singles out four members of St. Gregory’s family—his two sons, Sts. Arisdagés and Vrtanés, and his grandsons, Sts. Krikoris and Husig—and assigns them a special day of commemoration called ”The Feast of the Sons …
The calendar of the Armenian Church lists under the title “Holy Translators” a number of saints, including St. Sahag the Parthian, St. Mesrob Mashdots, St. Yeghishé, St. Movsés the Grammarian, St. David the Invincible, St. Gregory of Nareg, and St. …
“I must do the works of Him who sent me while it is day. Night comes and no one can work.” (John 9:4) People are accustomed to greet one another with joyful faces when they cry out “Happy New Year!” …
For Armenians, going on pilgrimage to the Holy Land is hardly a novel tradition. From the first recorded Armenian pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the 4th century to the early 20th century, when Catholicos Khrimian Hayrig penned his Invitation to the …