St. Gregory Tatevatsi’s homily on New Sunday

It’s called Second Easter for three reasons: freedom, resurrection, and salvation. Which signify the second coming and end of days.  First for freedom. For Zatik (Easter) is translated freedom and this day is called Second Freedom. This is the mystery, for although Christ freed us from sins by Hs

Շողակաթ Shoghakat Feast of Apparition of Holy Etchmiadzin

On Saturday before the Feast of Assumption of the Holy Mother of God the Armenian Church celebrates St. Gregory the Illuminator’s vision of Holy Etchmiadzin. When St. Gregory our Illuminator was delivered from the pit, he came to Vagharshapt and gathered the relics of Holy Hripsimyants Virgins. And he