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Feast Days of 2019

January 6 - Nativity & Epiphany of Our Lord
April 21 - Resurrection of Our Lord
July 28 - Transfiguration of Our Lord
August 18 - Assumption of Mary, the Mother of God
September 15 - Exaltation of the holy Cross

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NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION
Help us ring in the New Year at St. Sarkis’s Kechejian Hall on Tuesday, December 31. Doors will open at 8:30 pm. It will be a night full of fun, music, dancing, and food. There will be a full course meal, catered by Sanabels Mediterranean Restaurant, with a live DJ, desserts and soft drinks (BYOB). Take advantage of the Early Bird Ticket Special (until November 24) for adults and teens 13 and older at $50. Tickets for adults will increase to $70 (November 25-December 20). Kids’ tickets 4-12 are $35 and kids 3 and under are free. No tickets will be sold or payments accepted at the door. Tickets can also be purchased at www.stsarkis.org. For more information, please contact Alice Nahapetyan at 469-996-3040 or anahapetyan97@gmail.com

Purchase your Early Bird tickets for our New Years Eve Celebration here.
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN
The ACYOA Seniors invite you to participate in the Feed My Starving Children event on Wednesday, November 20, from 8:00 PM -9:30 PM at 1680 N. Glenville Dr., Suite 300, Richardson, TX 75081. Feed My Starving Children is a Christian non-profit that provides nutritionally complete meals specifically formulated for malnourished children. We will be hand packing the meals, so please wear comfortable clothes.For more information, please contact Kristine Ratevosyan at 469-215-9264/kratevosyan97@gmail.com.
 
SALVATION ARMY TREE IS BACK
The program that provides new clothing and toys for children of needy families through the support of donors will be back in Kechejian Hall. Found in local companies and corporations, Angel Trees are decorated with numbered paper angel tags with the first name, age, and gender of a child in need of presents. Contributors remove one or more tags from the tree and purchase appropriate gifts for the child or children described on the tags. We encourage everyone to pick up a tag this Sunday and donate out of the goodness of their hearts. The tree will be up from November 5th- December 1st. All unwrapped toys or clothing must be delivered with the ANGEL TAG to the tree by December 1st.
 
THANKSGIVING FEAST AT ST. SARKIS SCHOOL 
St. Sarkis School will have its traditional Thanksgiving celebration on Sunday, November 24, at 11:30-12:30 in the Kechejian Hall. The Thanksgiving celebration will include our traditional feast, arts and crafts combined with our message of thankfulness. All the children of the community are cordially invited. We would love to see you all! 

PILGRIMAGE TO ARMENIA
Fr. Ghevond Ajamian will lead the faithful of St. Sarkis Armenian Church on the Third Parish Pilgrimage to Armenia from July 26 to August 8, 2020. The pilgrimage will include Holy Etchmiadzin, Yerevan, Armenian Genocide Memorial and Museum, Khor Virab, Noravank, Lake Sevan, Dilijan, Garni, Geghard, Datev and much more. The cost per person will be $2,950 which will include round-trip airfare from DFW, transportation, daily meals, 4-Star hotel accommodation, entrance fees, tour guide (English). Space is limited. The registration deadline is February 1, 2020 with a $500 deposit. For a registration form, pilgrimage itinerary or more information, please contact Fr. Ghevond at fatherghevond@gmail.com or 201-218-5045. Or you can also contact SIMA Travels at SIMATours@gmail.com or 610-359-7521.

Faith & Traditions

Requiem Meal (Hogejash)
​If you wish to have a Requiem Meal to honor the memory of your loved one who has fallen asleep in the Lord, please approach the Women’s Guild Board.
Requiem Service (Hogehangist)
If you wish to have a Requiem Service to honor the memory of your loved one who has fallen asleep in the Lord, please approach Father Ghevond Ajamian.
Home Blessing (Tnorhnek)
One of the holy traditions on the Armenian Orthodox Church is the Home Blessing Service. If you, or someone you know, would like their home blessed, please contact Father Ghevond Ajamian.

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life".
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                   - John 3:14-15

The Mission of the Armenian Orthodox Church

Mission of the Armenian Orthodox Church According to 
The Teaching of St. Gregory the Illuminator
​To illumine all people who come into the world;
To give repentance of salvation to all;
To wash all people and deliver them from the bonds of darkness by baptism;
To seal all nations as Christ’s inner circle;
To make the Spirit of God dwell in people’s hearts;
To unite and join them to the love of the Son of God, that the heart of all might cry as one, and to unite all the world in saying: “Abba, Father,” so that the name of enslavement might be taken away, and the name of adoption be placed on them by the grace of Christ;[1]
To enable them to eat the flesh of the Son of God and drink the life-giving blood,[2] so that thereby they might bring all the world into the inheritance of Christ, to become “heirs of God and fellow heirs of Christ.”[3]
   

[1]Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6-7.

[2]John 6:54

[3]Romans 8:17.
Առ ի լուսաւոր առնել զամենայնմարդ որ գալոց է յաշխարհս.
   Տալ զապաշխարութիւն փրկութեանամենեցուն,
   Լուանալ զամենեսեան, արձակել իկապանաց խաւարի՝ մկրտութեամբն,
   եւ Քրիստոսագունդ դրոշմելզամենայն ազգս.
   Տալ զՀոգին Աստուծոյ բնակել իսիրտս մարդկան,
   Միաբանել խառնել ի սէրԱստոուածորդւոյն, զի սիրտամենեցուն իբրեւ մի աղաղակիցէ, եւզամենայն աշխարհս միաբանել ասել, թէ «Աբբա հայր»։ Զի բարձցի անունծառայութեան, եւ դիցի անունորդեգրութեան շնորհելովն Քրիստոսի՝
   Ուտել զմարմին Աստուածորդւոյն եւըմպել  զարիւնն կենդանարար. զիայնու մտցեն ամենայն աշխարհ իժառանգութիւն Քրիստոսի, լինելժառանգորդ Աստուծոյ եւ ժառանգակիցՔրիստոսի։




*Taken from The Teaching of Saint Gregory, ed. Robert W. Thomson, AVANT: Treasures of the Armenian Christian Tradition 1 (New Rochelle, NY: St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, 2001) 223-224.