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For many decades, the four Armenian churches of Southeast Wisconsin jointly observed Martyrs Day on April 24 with requiem services (prior to 2015) and other commemorations. This year, the four churches marked Martyrs Day by celebrating Sunday liturgy together on April 23 at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church, Greenfield. Priests, deacons, sub-deacons, choir members and…
With the Opening of the Doors on the morning of April 2, the curtains that had concealed the altar for 40 days were finally drawn. Lent had ended and Holy Week began by commemorating Jesus Christ’s entry into Jerusalem on the final week before his crucifixion. The bema at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church was decorated with palm fans and palm branches were …
Today, united under the auspices of our churches, we glorify the resurrected Savior and share the good tidings: “Christ is risen from the dead.” We glorify the miraculous Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered, was crucified and rose from the dead in order to free us from the power of sin and death; who through infinite divine love, opened the way to eternity and …
Vertanes Papazian was a prolific writer who delved into subjects of social and national interest at the turn of the twentieth century.
He was born in Van, in a priest’s family, on April 12, 1866. He moved to Tabriz, Iran, as a child. After his schooling in Agulis and Tabriz, he studied at the Gevorgian Seminary in Etchmiadzin, but he could not graduate, for he had to start working at the age of fifteen…
In Jesus Christ, God took upon Himself the broken human condition—and restored it to what it was meant to be: made it new again. He brought nourishment to the hungry; healing to the sick; consolation to the grieving. To the confused, he offered an example of upright, godly behavior. To the sinful, he offered forgiveness. Finally, to the dead—the dead in body as well as …
Avedik Evdokiatsi, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople was born on April 1, 1657, in Evdokia (Tokat). He was a disciple of the priests Sarkis and Bedros, and then of archimandrite Hagop Belenktsi. In 1675 he was ordained deacon in Payas (Cilicia), and then he moved to the monastery of St. Hagop of Gabos, in Upper Armenia (Partser Hayg), where he was consecrated monk (apegha) and …
Over the past months, working with members of the Diocesan Council, staff, and clergy, Diocesan Primate Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan has developed a “roadmap” for the Eastern Diocese, its parishes, and faithful, to help us live out God’s call over the coming years.
The Diocesan plan is titled “Growing In Faith Together”—and you can download a PDF file to read on your own, by …
Dikran Chukhajian was the first author of operas in Armenian reality, and his first opera became famous long after his death. He was born in Constantinople in 1837, studied at composer Gabriel Yeranian’s class, then followed classes in Milan. Along with other Armenian intellectuals of that period, he fought for the development of national culture, organized musical societies, theatres…
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St. John Armenian Church of Milwaukee observed Michink (Mid-Lent) with a vegan luncheon and a presentation on the meaning of Lent by Deacon Allen Banoub of St. Mary and St. Antonious Coptic Orthodox Church in nearby Oak Creek. Deacon Allen began by shifting the perspective on Lent from religious to spiritual. By religious, he meant the outward forms and rules of …
