The Armenian cross is a symbol of triumph. That’s why it doesn’t have corpus (figure of Christ) but is elaborately decorated to represent...

In psychological science, anxiety disturbances represent a variety of mental disorders. Those experiencing anxiety commonly describe...

Look at this picture I took yesterday. These majestic feathers of clouds are singing the Glory of God. The nature is so beautiful and...

November is the season of the year when the leaves are at the peak of their fall color here in Illinois and the signs of fall are all...

Today is a new beginning, the first day of Advent. Each year the Church guides us through various liturgical times, which correspondents...

On November 21 each year the worldwide Armenian Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Holy Mother-of-God to the Temple....

Every Sunday as we gather at the Divine Liturgy, the Soorp Badarak, no less than a dozen times do we hear the word and call for Peace....

In a matter of hours we will elect the next president of USA. I’m sure many will agree that this presidential election and campaigns have...

Today the Armenian Church observes the feast day dedicated to the holy archangels Michael and Gabriel and to the Heavenly Powers. Every...

St Mark summarizes the entirety of Jesus’s mission with one word, Ephphatha (Be Opened - Mark 7, 31-37). This word is so significant that...

A man went to a barber shop to have his hair and his beard cut as always. He started to have a good conversation with the barber who...

Water is that without which man cannot live; and Christ is the one without whom man cannot live and dare not die. In the Gospel of John,...

"Light of the World" is the title of the famous painting by the British artist William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). In 2004 I had the...

There is a story about a little girl who proudly wore a shiny cross on a chain around her neck. One day she was approached by a man who...

There is an ancient story about a man named Astyages who determined to do away with a royal infant by the name of Cyrus. He summoned an...

Although Mozart is known as “Wolfgang Amadeus”, he was actually baptized as “Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.” The...