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HOLY WEEK 2024 AT ST. JOHN

The Milwaukee Armenian community began its celebration of Holy Week on Sunday, March 24 with the Opening of the Doors (Turun-Patsek), marking the end of the Lenten closed curtain season in the church sanctuary. Following the Palm Sunday liturgy, parishioners gathered in the church hall for St. John’s annual Palm Sunday brunch, a fundraiser prepared by Sunday School teachers and parents. For the first time in memory, St. John observed the full Holy Week schedule, including the Commemoration of the Ten Maidens on Tuesday, March 26. Ten young girls from the community took part in the evening service.

March 10, 2024/by stjohnInGreat Lent, News

MID-LENT LUNCH AND TALK AT ST. JOHN

February 11, 2024/by stjohnInNews

POON PAREGENTAN 2024 OBSERVED AT ST. JOHN’S IN MILWAUKEE

Bishop Oshagan Gulgulian Ordaining priests

February 5, 2024/by stjohnInNews

ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AT ST. GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR MOTHER CHURCH IN YEREVAN

January 28, 2024/by stjohnInDiocesan Primate, News

PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY 2024

January 28, 2024/by stjohnInArmenian, News, News in Armenian

ՏԱՐԵԿԱՆ ԱՆԴԱՄԱԿԱՆ ԺՈՂՈՎ՝ 2024

January 27, 2024/by stjohnInNews

COOKING WITH JUSTIN

SAINTS & FEASTS

February 25, 2025InBishop Mesrop Parsamyan, Saints & Feasts

A LEGACY OF FAITH AND COURAGE

Today, we celebrate the feast day of St. Ghevont, the priest, and his clergy brothers. In the fifth century, when our people faced one of the greatest threats in their history and the Persian Empire sought to erase Armenia’s Christian identity, St. Ghevont and his clergy brothers stood boldly with the Armenian army for their faith and their nation, defying impossible odds.

On the eve of the Battle of Avarayr, May 24, AD 451, when the enemy was closing in, St. Ghevont gathered the soldiers, celebrated Badarak, administered Holy Communion, and even baptized those who had not yet been received into the church. And with his words, he reminded them about the love of God and that no battle, no hardship, not even death itself, could separate them from His love.

February 24, 2025InSaints & Feasts

VARTAN MAMIGONIAN

February 24, 2025InSaints, Saints & Feasts

STS. GHEVONT AND PRIESTS

February 23, 2025InSaints, Saints & Feasts

SAINTS MARK THE BISHOP, PIONIUS THE PRIEST, CYRIL AND BENJAMIN THE DEACONS

February 17, 2025InCatholicos, Church Fathers, Saints, Saints & Feasts

ST. SAHAG BARTEV

February 17, 2025InChurch Fathers, Saints & Feasts

HOLY VOSKIAN PRIESTS

February 17, 2025InSaints, Saints & Feasts

COMMEMORATION OF STS. VOSKIANS PRIESTS

WRITINGS OF BISHOP MESROP PARSAMYAN

April 30, 2025InBishop Mesrop Parsamyan

THE SCENT OF GOD’S PRESENCE

Recently, I visited the new Commodity Fragrances store in the SoHo neighborhood in New York City, opened by our dear friends Vicken and Rosette Arslanian. What a beautiful place it is! The design is modern, almost like an art gallery. As you walk in, you can feel the atmosphere shift. Every scent, every detail is designed to lift your senses and make you pause, reflect, and breathe in something refreshing.

As I walked through that boutique, sampling the different fragrances, a saying from one of the Desert Fathers came to mind. He said, “Whoever enters a perfume shop, even if they buy nothing, still leaves with the sweet fragrance.” What a powerful truth! …

April 28, 2025InBishop Mesrop Parsamyan

DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?

This Week in Armenian History

May 22, 2025InThis Week in Armenian History

BIRTH OF ARKADY TER TADEVOSYAN

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan [pronounced as Der-Tadevosian], also known by his nom-de-guerre Komandos, was a military leader of the Armenian forces in the first Artsakh war and best known for commanding the capture of the town of Shushi in 1992.

Ter-Tadevosyan was born Artush Tadevosyan in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, on May 22, 1939. After graduating from a high school in Tbilisi, he decided to become an officer. He attended military school in Baku and Leningrad (nowadays St. Petersburg). He served in Afghanistan and continued his military service in Leninakan (modern-day Gyumri), East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Belarus, and Yerevan. He was also a lecturer at the Armenian State Agrarian University.

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HOLY WEEK 2024 AT ST. JOHN

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POON PAREGENTAN 2024 OBSERVED AT ST. JOHN’S IN MILWAUKEE

ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AT ST. GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR MOTHER CHURCH IN YEREVAN

PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY 2024

ՏԱՐԵԿԱՆ ԱՆԴԱՄԱԿԱՆ ԺՈՂՈՎ՝ 2024

COOKING WITH JUSTIN

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THE SCENT OF GOD’S PRESENCE

BEAUTY BEYOND THE BREAK

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NO STONE TOO HEAVY FOR THE RISEN LORD

WORSHIP THAT HEAVEN REMEMBERS

OPEN THE DOOR

DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?

BIRTH OF ARKADY TER TADEVOSYAN

YE-GE-GHE-TSEE – CHURCH

HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR INVESTMENTS LATELY?

SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ARMENIANS OBSERVE MARTYRS DAY

2023 EASTER MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II

2023 EASTER MESSAGE OF THE DIOCESAN PRIMATE

THE RAISING OF LAZARUS

SUNDAY OF THE JUDGE

SUNDAY OF THE STEWARD

EVE OF GREAT LENT

BISHOP MESROP’S LENTEN MESSAGE 2025

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