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Lent 2020
Lent 2020 Since yesterday we’ve entered the period of Great Lent, Medz Bahk. The curtains have closed the altars from our sight, and we are preparing ourselves for Holy Easter. Christian tradition has followed 40 days of fasting before Easter since early times. In the tradition of the Armenian Church, Continue Reading →
Trndez 2020
Today, February 27, 2020 we celebrate Trndez, or Tiarndaraj, the Feast of the Purification and the Presentation of our Lord to the Temple, exactly 40 days after Christmas, also called Տօն քառասնօրեայ գալստեանն ի Տաճարն. The Old Testament commands all mothers of newborns to go to the Temple, 40 days Continue Reading →
Vardanants
Tomorrow, February 24 2020, we celebrate the Feast of Vardanants. We commemorate the brave St. Vartan Mamikonian and his courageous men. The Byzantines in Constantinople came to an agreement with the Persians, to occupy and divide Armenia. The Persians eventually gained control over the land of the Armenians. When the Continue Reading →
Official Communiqué – Christmas 2020
Official Communiqué: COMMUNIQUE According to the Status Quo, on January 18-19, the Armenian Apostolic Church has the right to celebrate the feast of Nativity and Revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem. Before the Christmas season, the Status Quo communities of Armenians, Greeks and Continue Reading →
Celebration Armenian Christmas 2020
Armenian Christmas January 2020 Program for Christmas Eve, Saturday January 18 and Christmas Day, Sunday January 19 Times are approximately Saturday January 18 9.30 am His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem leaves from St. James, through Jaffa Gate, to Bethlehem. 10.00 am At the Continue Reading →
Congratulations to His Eminence Archbishop Sevan Gharibian
We congratulate His Eminence Archbishop Sevan Gharibian, the Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, on his birthday. We wish him many years in good health. Շնորհավոր and may our Lord continue to strengthen you in your work, dear Srpazan Hayr.
January Feasts 2020 of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem
These are the schedules of upcoming feasts this month. We cordially invite you to celebrate with us.
His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian visited the Diocesan Center in New York.
His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, visited the Diocesan Center in New York. His Beatitude was warmly welcomed by the Diocesan Primate, His Eminence Bishop Daniel Findikyan on Wednesday December 18, and they enjoyed a meaningful meeting during a luncheon, together with clergy of the Eastern Continue Reading →
Donation of Gospel Concordances by the Kalemkiarian Family.
A few months ago we were contacted by Mr. Paul Hagop Kalemkiarian. Mr. Kalemkiarian wrote us, that he printed the work of his father of beloved memory, Mr. Hagop Boghos Kalemkiarian. His father had worked with the British Forces all over the Middle East; when he was stationed near Fayed Continue Reading →