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

PALM SUNDAY

On Sunday, April 13th, the Armenian Church celebrates Palm Sunday, which commemorates the triumphal entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. All four Evangelists (Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-10, Luke 19:28-38, and John 12:12-18) write about this significant event.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, like all believers of his time, went to Jerusalem as a pilgrim to participate in the Easter celebration. However, the difference was that he went as a “New Passover Lamb”

Please click here to read the article by our Diocesan Bishop on Resurrection of Lazarus.

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THOUGHTS & WRITINGS OF

HIS GRACE BISHOP MESROP PARSAMYAN

April 5, 2025

SECOND WIND

When I was a teenager, I practiced judo, and part of our training included running. There were times when I would run and run, and suddenly, I felt like I couldn’t take another step. My legs were heavy, my lungs were burning, and my body was shouting at me, “That’s it. You’re done.”

And yet, if I kept going just a little longer, something amazing would happen. I would catch my second wind. Suddenly, the exhaustion lifted, my strength returned, and I felt like I could run forever!

ST. JOHN MARKS MID-LENT WITH A POTLUCK AND A SPEAKER

The final days before Easter are noted on the calendars of most Christian denominations, but for the Orthodox churches, each of those days is endowed with special meaning.

On Sunday March 31, St. John the Baptist Armenian Church observed mid-Lent (michink) with a potluck of vegan dishes in keeping with Armenian fasting traditions and a talk by Rev. Fr. Panteleimon Dalianis from Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa.

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SAINTS AND FEASTS

April 8, 2025

THE RAISING OF LAZARUS

On Saturday before Palm Sunday the Armenian Orthodox Church commemorates the Raising of Lazarus as told in the Gospel of John, Chapter 11. Lazarus and his sisters Mary and Martha were good friends of Jesus.

Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025

Morning Service 9:00 A.M.
Opening of the Great Door Service 10:00 A.M.
Divine Liturgy 10:15 A.M.

JOIN US FOR PALM SUNDAY BRUNCH
At the conclusion of the church services, our Sunday School teachers and parents will serve their traditional brunch. We cordially invite our parishioners and friends to support our youth and Sunday School students with their attendance.

This Week in Armenian History

April 3, 2025

DEATH OF VAHAN BEDELIAN

In 1915, the population of Adana was deported and the Bedelian family reached Aleppo. One of Vahan Bedelian’s friends, who by then was a good violin teacher, arranged a job for him as music and violin teacher at the Aleppo School of Art. With this job, he managed, after considerable difficulties, to obtain a permit from the chief of police to stay in Aleppo with the eleven members of his family.
They stayed there until the end of World War I and returned to Adana when French forces were stationed in Cilicia. Bedelian gave his first concert in 1920. When the French evacuated Cilicia in 1921, he went to Cyprus, where he devoted himself to music and teaching. In 1932 he replaced famous composer and conductor Parsegh Ganachian