“Good people draw what is good from the store of goodness in their hearts; bad people draw what is bad from the store of badness.” […]

“The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is clear, your whole body, too, is filled with light.” Luke 11.34).   We […]

We hear this question especially when our souls are perturbed in the presence of cataclysmic misfortunes, or when we are stung by an unjust or […]

By participating in the Holy Badarak and partaking of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus, we must be mindful that we are committing […]

The book called “Mashdots,” the Sacramentary, contains the liturgical prayers of the Armenian Church. The prayers of Christian Burial offer the most practical nourishment and […]

Once we step through the gates of faith into the domain of God’s Kingdom, we must set aside the oldness of our human nature and […]

During conversations with friends and acquaintances, I often hear expressed the idea that being good, not hurting other people, being generous, being law-abiding, and having […]

Jesus was born for resurrection, not for death. This observation by Saint Augustine prompts us to ask: what is the purpose of our birth?   […]

Hope, as Saint Gregory of Narek prays, may look like a feeble thread, but in the hands of Jesus it acquires divine power to pull […]

The prophets and psalmists of the Bible employ the metaphors of the crucible and the potter to describe divine action in shaping human nature into […]