Monday, April 14, 2025

 

Divine Liturgy was served on Palm Sunday in all churches of Russia and the New Nakhichevan Diocese

Fathers living in Tyumen, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Crimea and Izhevsk celebrated Palm Sunday in church, gathered around the priest. In the Holy Transfiguration Church in Moscow, on Palm Sunday, the branches were blessed and distributed to the people under the...
2025-04-14
 

The Opening of the Doors ceremony was held at the Mother Cathedral on Palm Sunday evening

The Order of the Opening of the Doors symbolizes the Second Coming of Christ, when the gates of the kingdom of heaven will be opened for the righteous. It takes place in the form of a dialogue between the clergy, who are veiled, inside and outside the Mother Altar. The clergy kneel and ask the...
2025-04-14
 

Holy Week, symbolizing the last days of Jesus Christ's earthly life, has begun

On Monday, the parable of the Cursed Fig Tree was read in the church. Starting on Holy Monday, people enter the Holy Week period and prepare to celebrate the most important Christian holiday, the Resurrection of Christ. Believers spend Holy Week with strict abstinence, fervent prayer, and...
2025-04-14
 

The monograph entitled "The Stone Chronicle of the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin" has been published

It is dedicated to the reconsecration of the Mother Cathedral and summarizes the lithographic heritage of the Mother Cathedral. For the first time, the construction and renovation works of the Mother Cathedral over the centuries are presented in the form of a chronicle, that is, in chronological...
2025-04-14
 

The "Nazan" ensemble, which participated in the "Art Music" competition for the first time, received a 2nd place prize

The canon class of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and the AGBU Arabkir Youth Center participated in the 16th "Art Music" International Art Competition-Festival held at the Konstantin Sarajyan Music School. The class registered 2 victories, representing an individual performer and the "Nazan"...
2025-04-14
 

The celebration of Palm Sunday concludes the forty-day period of Great Lent

During the evening service on Holy Tuesday, the parable of the 10 virgins is commemorated. Holy Wednesday commemorates the anointing of Christ and the betrayal of Judas. Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper and the institution of the Eucharist. The ceremony of Washing of the foot is also...
2025-04-14
 
 

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