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St. Gregory the Enlightener Armenian Church Rev. Fr. Mesrob Hovsepyan, pastor

1131 North Street, White Plains, NY 10605 / Office: (914) 428-2595 Pastor: (804) 405-9399 Email: Der Mesrob - fr.mesrob@yahoo.com, Office - saintgregorychurchwp@gmail.com

Web: www.stgregorywp.com Office Hours: Monday closed, Tuesday-Friday 9:00-4:00 pm

Welcome to St. Gregory the Enlightener Armenian Church!

The year of “100 Years of Remembrance: 1915-2015” The Morning Service starts at 9:45 a.m. on Sundays

and is followed by Soorp Badarak (Divine Liturgy) at 10:15 a.m.

Parish Council Members on Duty: Arman Bedonian, Hagop Meneshian, & Sylvia Kruizenga

Today’s Scripture Readings: 1 Cor. 6:18-7:11 Matthew 19:3-12

Requiem Service will be offered for the souls of:

Armen Bozian (40th day) By: Kevork Parseghian & Family

Vartouhi Tutakian, Pepron Benon Jocer, Lucia & Khoren Tutak, Simon Tutak

By: Vicktoria Gurunian & Family

May God rest their souls in His eternal peace and presence and grant their loved ones the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

¶ ÎÇõñ³Ï¿ ½ÏÝÇ ì³ñ¹³í³éÇ Third Sunday after Transfiguration

Commemoration of St. Gregory the Illuminator’s Sons and Grandsons – Sts. Aristakes, Vrtanes, Housik,

Grigoris and Daniel On Saturday, our church commemorated the feast of St. Gregory the Illumi-nator’s Sons and Grandsons. Aristakes was St. Gregory the Illuminator’s youngest son. He led a monastic life from a very early age. He was conse-crated a bishop by his father, and became one of St. Gregory’s most valued supporters. In 325 A.D. he participated in the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, representing the first Catholicos and the entire Armenian Church. Following St. Gregory the Illuminator, he became Catholicos of All Armeni-ans. He was killed in 333 A.D. Vrtanes was St. Gregory the Illuminator’s elder son. He was married and had two sons – Grigoris and Housik. Following the death of his brother, he ascended to the Catholicosal Throne. Although Christianity was already fairly well accepted as the official religion, some remnants of paganism and heathenism continued in remote areas and smaller villages. One region that had substantial resistance was the province of Daron. Vrtanes organized an-nual festive Christian celebrations in this province to gradually eliminate their pagan beliefs and practices. Vrtanes died in 341 A.D. Grigoris was the elder son of Vrtanes. He was sent by the Armenian Church to spread Christianity among the neighboring nations of Armenia. He was martyred upon the order of King Sanesan, the head of the nomadic Mazkut tribe. Housik was the younger son of Vrtanes. He married with the daughter of the Armenian King Tiridates and had two sons – Pap and Antiochus. In 341 A.D. he was elected as the Catholicos of All Armenians. He resisted and challenged the will of King Tiran, who wished to hang the portrait of Julianus the Betrayer in a church. He was severely beaten, martyred, and was buried in the village of Tordan, province of Daranaghi.

Bishop Daniel Assyrian was famous for his saintly way of life. As he grew older he led an ascetic and isolated life in the province of Daron. Following the martyrdom of Housik, he was invited to be the Catholicos of All Arme-nians. During the very first meeting with King Tiran, he strictly castigated him on the murder of the Pontiff Housik. The king summarily ordered the death of Daniel by strangulation.

The sons and grandsons of St. Gregory the Illuminator are remembered and commemorated by all Armenian Churches throughout the world for their service to the Church, their faithfulness to Christianity, and their commit-ment to the Armenian people.

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READINGS The reading is from the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians (6:18-7:11) Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body. Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is well for a man not to touch a woman.” But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her hus-band. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the hus-band does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. This I say by way of concession, not of command. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and an-other a different kind. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain un-married as I am. But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion. To the married I give this command—not I but the Lord—that the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does separate, let her re-main unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MAT-THEW (19:3-12) Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?” He said to them, “It was be-cause you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever di-vorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adul-tery.”

His disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

CALLING ALL PARISHIONERS! The Parish Council invites you to be a party of our growing com-munity! There are so many ways to get involved at our thriving church! One of the easiest ways is to host Coffee Hour! Hosting Coffee Hour is very simple and fun too! Please email Maria Stepanian at mstepct@gmail.com or call at 203-550-4897 if your are interested or have any questions. Looking forward to hearing from you all!

The Parish Council

Congratulations! We express our heartfelt congratulations to Rev. Fr. Karekin and Yn. Dawn Kasparian

as they welcomed their newborn granddaughter. Cassandra Joy Longacre, daughter of Meline & Evans Longacre, was born on Sunday, July 19th.

Today, please take a moment to remember in your prayers Fr. Untzag Nalbandian, Gale Perzigian, Mary Sohigian,

Agnes Bostonian, Anna Yelegen, Dn. Joseph Kalemkerian as well as all the sick and recovering members

of our community.

May God touch his faithful servants with His healing hand, and grant them good health & recovery.

Please inform Der Hayr if you have friends or family who are suffer-ing any physical or spiritual distress and are in need of prayer, and he will add them to his prayer list where they will be remembered

before “the Holy and Immortal Lamb of God” during the Eucharist. We all need prayer – both to say for others and to be said for us.

After a few months of discussions with the White Plains authorities, a new Site Plan Resolution was recently approved. Our Construction Manager has started the review process with the Building Department, with the goal of getting a building permit within a month or so. We will be ready to break ground soon thereafter, probably after our Picnic. Our first phase will consist of constructing the area encompassing the 18 new parking spaces, followed by the actual construction of the New Hall. Our long wait is finally over, and by fall 2016 our youth will be able to fully enjoy their Hall!

New Hall - Moving Forward

PASTORAL CARE: HOME AND HOSPITAL CLERGY VISIT Der Mesrob is always available and would like to visit homebound and hospitalized parishioners. If you or someone you know is ill or

hospitalized and would like to be visited, please call Der Hayr at (804) 405-9399 or the church office at (914) 428-2595. Please note:

when asked about religion at a hospital, patients should list them-selves as “Armenian Orthodox” or “Armenian” not “other:”

Today Divine Liturgy.

August 8, Saturday

WOMEN’S GUILD “ALL-AMERICAN” BBQ FUN evening for all ages!

Flyer can be found inside of the bulletin

August 16, Sunday

Feast of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God

September 20, Sunday

FAMILY “FALL FAIR” & ARMENIAN PICNIK Details inside of the bulletin

October 4, Sunday

“THE HYE LEGION: THE GAMAVOR STORY” A Musical by The Way We Were

Theater Ensemble. Details to follow.

September 19, Saturday

First day of Armenian School. Registration & School opening.

July 28, Tuesday

“The Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later” Learning in Retirement at Iona College

Presenter: George Omartian at 10:30-11:45 Where: Juliano’s Caterers, 700 Main St, New Rochelle

Donations for the Blessing of the Grapes Parishioners who wish to make donation on the occa-

sion of the Blessing of the Grapes for the Feast of the As-sumption, may give their donations to Parish Council

members or mail it to the church office.