ST. JOHN ARMENIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN

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Come and join us on Sundays for Worship. Experience Christ as He has been worshiped for 1700 years in the Armenian Orthodox Church.

Armenian Churches in the Midwest Area

Church Services

Join us on Sundays
Morning Service 9am
Divine Liturgy 10am

Միացէք մէզի ամէն Կիրակի
Առաւօտեան Ժամ. 9։00-ին
Ս. Պատարագ 10։00-ին

St. John Armenian Church of Greenfield, Wisconsin

Office Hours

Monday Closed
Tuesday 10am to 3pm
Wednesday 10am to 3pm
Thursday 10am to 3pm
Friday 10am to 3pm

Telephone (414) 282-1670

2026 DIOCESAN ASSEMBLY IN MILWAUKEE

We’re excited to inform you that St. John Armenian Church and Milwaukee Armenian Community and Cultural Center will host the Diocesan Assembly and Clergy conference in 2026. We will periodically update our community and the delegates through our www.diocesanassembly.com website on the Assembly and let you know when the Registration and Gala reservations are open.

Meanwhile, please watch this short clip on our church and the beautiful city. You may want to incorporate “pleasure” with your “business” trip to Milwaukee in 2026.

Time in Milwaukee:

THOUGHTS & WRITINGS OF

HIS GRACE BISHOP MESROP PARSAMYAN

May 8, 2025

STITCHED BY THE MASTER’S HAND

Woburn, Massachusetts, where we held our 123rd Annual Diocesan Assembly last week, was once renowned for its shoemaking industry. We stayed at the Hilton in Woburn, and my hotel room was decorated throughout with reminders of that legacy, as you can see in the photo. Shelves filled with sewing machines, wooden shoe forms, and spools of thick thread. All the tools of the trade.

That room took me back to a cold winter in Armenia, back in the early 90s. Times were tough. We didn’t always have electricity. We didn’t have heat. We had to burn wood in old-fashioned stoves just to stay warm. And sometimes, when wood was hard to find, we’d burn books—volumes of Lenin, to be exact. But secretly, I would save the covers, made out of leather.

FROM PALM SUNDAY THROUGH EASTER, ST. JOHN KEPT A FULL SCHEDULE

Palm Sunday is the celebratory bridge between two periods of profound reflection on the Armenian Church calendar, Lent and Holy Week. On Palm Sunday, the sanctuary curtain was opened, the gospel reading commemorated Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem, Holy Communion was offered for the first time in 40 days and the Opening of the Doors ceremony was performed.

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SAINTS AND FEASTS

May 5, 2025

RED SUNDAY

The fourth Sunday of Eastertide is known as Red Sunday (Garmir Giragi, Կարմիր Կիրակի). The name does not have an ecclesiastical origin. Red is the color of blood, and this may be an appropriate time to honor the memory of the early Christian martyrs.

I read an interesting thing about the early days of golf balls. When manufacturers first made golf balls, they had smooth, flawless outer covers, kind of like a giant ping-pong ball. They were called feathery! But something strange happened out on the course. After the ball had been roughed up a little, knocked around, maybe even dented here and there, they noticed it started traveling farther. It flew straighter…

This Week in Armenian History

May 8, 2025

BIRTH OF ZAHRAD

Zahrad, one of the most influential names of Armenian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century, was born Zareh Yaldizciyan on May 10, 1924, in the Nişantaşi district of Istanbul. He lost his father, who had been a jurist, adviser, and translator for the Ottoman Foreign Ministry, at the age of three. His mother remarried and he grew up with his maternal grandfather Levon Vartanyan.

In 1942 he graduated from the Mekhitarist Lyceum of Istanbul. He attended the Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University but dropped after a while in order to work. He published his first poem in the daily Jamanak with the pseudonym Zahrad in 1943. His first collection of poetry, The Big City, appeared in 1960. He married Anayis Antreasian in 1963.