Friday 14 March 2014

DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Broadcasting The Badarak


ԱՌԱՋՆՈՐԴՈՒԹԻՒՆ.ՀԱՅՈՑ.ՄԵԾՆ.ԲՐԻԴԱՆԻՈՅ.ԵՒ.ԻՐԼԱՆՏԱՅԻ
DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Տ. Վահան.Եպս..Յովհաննէսեան,.Հայրապետական.Պատուիրակ.եւ.Առաջնորդ The Right Revd Bishop Vahan Hovhanessian, Primate and Pontifical Legate
Issue 10, Volume 5
6 March, 2014
The Primate's Office is happy to announce that for the first time in the UK the Premier
Christian Radio will broadcast the Sourp Badarak / Divine Liturgy that they recorded on the
Feast of Holy Theophany at St Sarkis a few weeks ago. The programme will last just under
an hour, and it will include parts of the Liturgy itself as well as many helpful explanations
by the Very Revd Fr Garegin Hambardzumyan.
We Armenians pride ourselves for being the first nation-state to accept Christianity in 301
AD & we often affirm that the Armenian Orthodox Church is one of the oldest churches
within Christendom. Both are quite true but it is largely unknown to scores of other
Christian brothers & sisters - especially those Evangelical Christians in this country - who
are not too familiar at all with the Armenian or pan-Orthodox Churches.
This is why our own Dr Harry Hagopian had agreed this pilot project with Premier Christian
Radio three months ago. It will reach out to non-Armenians and hopefully show the leaven
of the faith that lies behind traditional incense. If successful, similar programmes with other
Orthodox Churches might be recorded too.
So why not follow the programme as it goes out:
London 1305, 1332, 1413 MW
National DAB
Freeview 725
www.premier.org.uk
Primate’s Office, Armenian Church of the UK and Ireland, 25 Cheniston Gardens, London W8 6TG, 0208 127 8364, E-Mail

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