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 …
Commemoration of Saints Mark the Bishop, Pionius the Priest, Cyril and Benjamin the Deacons, and Martyrs Abdelmseh, Ormistan, and Sayen.
During the reign of King Yazdegerd I of Persia (399–420), severe persecutions arose against the Christians living in Persia, forcing them to renounce Christianity and return to fire worship. Among the many martyrs of that time was Deacon Benjamin, who, strengthened by the Holy Spirit, fearlessly preached and evangelized, converting many from sorcery to the worship of the true God.
The other day, I was driving down the FDR Drive—those of you who live in New York City know exactly what that’s like. That highway will test your faith! You’ve got to pray and drive at the same time. Well, someone cut me off in traffic, just swerved right in front of me. No signal, no warning. Just like that.
Now I want to be honest with you, I got angry. I began imagining what I might say if I were ever to come face-to-face with that driver. Have you ever been there? Rehearsing your comeback, imagining how you’ll tell someone off, thinking, “That’ll show them!”
Stepan Balasanian (born December 5, 1837, in Botoșani, Moldavia) became a major figure of the late-19th-century Armenian intelligentsia in the Caucasus. After early schooling in his hometown, he studied in Paris at the Samuel-Moorat College (1852–1855) and the Haigazian School, graduating in 1858. Invited by Archbishop Gabriel Ayvazovsky, he taught at the Khalibian School in Feodosia until conflicts prompted him and colleagues to leave in 1861 and establish a new school in Nor Nakhijevan near Rostov-on-the-Don. His progressive journalism led to his expulsion from Rostov, after which he settled in Tiflis, where he taught Armenian subjects and French at the Nersisian School and also worked at the city’s Royal School…
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