Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it …
Every Sunday, during the set of litanies before the singing of the Lord’s Prayer, the Armenian Apostolic Church recalls and asks for intercession from many of the Church’s most important saints. In many parishes, these are shortened, so we don’t …
John the Evangelist, the writer of the fourth Gospel and the Book of Revelation, earns the title The Theologian due to his impassioned insistence on the divinity of Christ as the Logos, the Word of God. While St. Peter, in …
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. …
Currently, the Armenian Apostolic Church is in the middle of the Octave of Christmas or the Octave of the Feast of Theophany. In the Armenian Apostolic tradition, after celebrating Christmas on January 6, the celebration of the appearance of …
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 …
I will life up my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help? Psalm 120 The Psalms are some of the oldest sources of worship, praise, and theological thinking. These devotional poems, many of which are associated with King …
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 …