Tuesday 15 January 2019

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The Year 2019 is proclaimed the Year of Family
 
2019 has been proclaimed a year of the family by His Holiness KAREKIN II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. In His Christmas message, which was read throughout the Armenian Churches across the world, Catholicos of Armenians makes an emphasis on safeguarding the pattern of the traditional Armenian families. “We encourage our ecclesiastical and diocesan bodies and clergymen to initiate family centred assistance projects and events, undertake pilgrimages to the Fatherland and Holy Etchmiadzin, to the dominical and national sacred sites, in order to strengthen our faith, warmly kindle the flame of love toward the homeland and the sacred realization of being a son and a daughter of the nation and the Fatherland” said the Catholicos.
The message was read by the Primate on 6th January who was the celebrant at St. Yeghiche Church on the feast of Nativity and Theophany of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. After the liturgy, he blessed the waters, which is done in remembrance of the Jesus' baptism in the river of Jordan.
 
 
Please watch the Divine Liturgy on our YouTube channel
 
 
January 5th - Eve of the Feast of the Nativity and Theophany
Ճրագալոյցի Սուրբ Պատարագ
 
On the eve of the Feast of the Nativity and Theophany of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the primate attended Divine Liturgy at St. Sarkis Church. The celebrant was Very Rev. Jirair Tashjian, a visiting clergyman from Paris. The primate congratulated the congregation, sharing with them the good news of Christ’s birth. Commenting on the Gospel of Luke 2:1-14, he invited the faithful to ponder over the meaning of Christmas. In particular, that it is an invitation by God almighty to choose between the comfortable ways of the world and the Christian way.
 
 
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UPCOMING EVENTS 
 
Saturday, January 26th, at 2-3:30 pm - Armenian Children’s club

Wednesday, January 16th, 23rd, 30th, 7: 30 pm - Spiritual Journey through the Bible.

Saturday, January 19th, 12:00 pm - Tea and Coffee with the Bishop. It is on this date Christmas day is celebrated in the Old Calendar. There will be a screening of the celebrations in Bethlehem and River Jordan.

Friday, January 25th, 7:30 pm - The Armenian Book club. Pieces of Hagop Barnoian, 19th-century Western Armenian Satire will be read and discussed.
 
 
 
Episcopal visits and celebrations in January and February
 
Sunday, January 20th - St. Sarkis Church

Sunday, January 27th -St. Yeghiche Church

Sunday, February 3rd- Holy Trinity Church in Manchester

Saturday, February 9th- Pembroke College in Oxford

Wednesday, February 13th - vespers at St. Yeghiche Church on the eve of the feast of
the presentation

Sunday, February 10th - St. Sarkis Church

Saturday, February 15th - St. Sarkis Church on the eve of the feast of St. Sarkis

Sunday, February 17th - St. Sarkis Church

Sunday, February 24th - Armenian Parish in Dublin, Ireland


 
 
 
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