Early Christianity was rife with controversy, debate, and strife over the fundamental question, “Who is this person, Jesus Christ?” While St. Peter had declared Jesus to be the Christ, the exact understanding of what that meant had to be worked …
A voice of one crying in the wilderness, preparing the way of the Lord. This is how the Gospels, quoting the Book of Isiah, describes St. John the Baptist, also known as St. John the Forerunner, in Armenian կարապետ, Garabed/Karapet. …
With the New Year comes promises of personal renewal, the New Year’s Resolutions we may or may not keep much past January 15th. We cast off the old in praise of the new, promising ourselves to look forward rather than …
Vartabeds, the scholar-monks of the Armenian Apostolic Church, occupy a central role in the Church and in the imagination of Armenian Christians. There are few images as iconic of Armenian Christianity as the veghar, the pointed cowl worn by celibate …
Separating Greece from modern-day Turkey, the cities dotting the coast of the Aegean Sea seem far removed from both the original source of Christianity, Jerusalem, and from Armenia. Yet many of St. Paul’s letters are addressed to early Christian churches …
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 …