Crossroads E-Newsletter:6/7/07

June 7, 2007

2007 DATEV INSTITUTE SUMMER PROGRAM
We are rapidly approaching the dates for the 21st annual St. Gregory of Datev Institute Christian summer studies program, which will take place July 1 to 8 in Elverson, Pennsylvania. Sponsored by the Prelacy’s Armenian Religious Education Council, the St. Gregory of Datev Institute is under the directorship of Bishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Vicar General. The program offers an intensive seven-day religious educational program for youth ages 13 and older. The units of study include: Introduction to the Old and New Testaments, Armenian Church History and Theology, Divine Liturgy and the other Sacraments, Services and Hymns, Saints and Feasts, Contemporary Ethical issues, Armenian history and language.

There are a few openings in the program. For details and registration form click here.

PRELATE WILL PRESIDE OVER 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF
ST. SARKIS CHURCH AND ORDAIN ACOLYTES
This Sunday, June 10, Archbishop Oshagan will ordain acolytes at St. Sarkis Church in Douglaston, New York. Altar servers to be ordained acolytes are: Gerard Barikian, Shont Voskerichian, James Mangouchian, Daniel Megerian, Christapor Megherian, Peter Boyadjian and Sarkis Nersessian.

His Eminence will preside over the church’s 17th anniversary in Douglaston at a banquet and artistic program following church services.

PRELATE WILL ORDAIN ACOLYTES AT
ST. ILLUMINATOR’S CATHEDRAL ON JUNE 24
Archbishop Oshagan will ordain four acolytes on Sunday, June 24, at St. Illuminator’s Cathedral in New York City. The acolytes to be ordained are Zohrab (Mardo) Piranian, Mgo Piranian, Garen Vartanian, and Aram Hovsepian.

On the same day the Cathedral Ladies Guild is hosting a luncheon and program dedicated to Father’s Day. The event, which is under the auspices of Archbishop Oshagan, will honor Dr. Roubik Melik Vartanian, Hagop Kazanjian, Stepan Bakalian, and Henry Gabrielian as Fathers of the Year.

VICAR WILL ATTEND GRADUATION ON FRIDAY
Bishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Vicar, will attend the graduation ceremony at St. Illuminator’s School in Woodside, NY, tomorrow, Friday, June 8, at 7 pm.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN ARMENIA
Dr. Vazgen Ghougassian, Executive Director of the Prelacy, left for Armenia last Saturday. He will remain through next week. Dr. Ghougassian makes annual visits to meet with the Prelacy’s staff at the St. Nerses the Great Charitable Organization.

“ILLUMINATIONS” NOTES AWARD TO CATHOLICOS ARAM I
The latest issue of “Illuminations,” the publication of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library of Saint John’s University (Minnesota), notes the award given to His Holiness Aram I, in December. The article says in part:

Saint John’s Abbey and University presented its highest honor, the Pax Christi Award, to His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, on Wednesday, December 6, 2006.

“His Holiness was our first Armenian partner in the Middle East. His exceptional leadership facilitated the opening of the manuscript collection of the Catholicosate to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library,” said Fr. Columa Stewart, executive director of HMML.

In his public address His Holiness Aram said, “I would like to express my deep appreciation to this university…working with us in order to preserve our intellectual, theological and spiritual heritage not only to preserve our heritage but to create the possibility of presenting it to the world.”

As the highest honor awarded by Saint John’s, the Pax Christi Award recognizes those who have devoted themselves to God by working in ways akin to the tradition of Benedictine monasticism to serve others and to build a heritage of faith in the world.

UNITED ARMENIAN FUND’S 143RD AIRLIFT
The United Armenian Fund’s 143rd airlift arrived in Yerevan on June 2, delivering over $14 million of humanitarian assistance. This is the highest value airlift sent by the UAF in the past 18 years. The shipment included medicines and medical supplies collected by the UAF and other organizations and individuals. Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $496 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia on 143 airlifts and 1,449 sea containers.

The UAF is the collective effort of the Armenian Assembly of America, Armenian General Benevolent Union, Armenian Missionary Association of America, Armenian Relief Society, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, and The Lincy Foundation.

A NEW PLAY ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Shotgun Productions and Resistance Theatre is presenting a staged reading of a new play about the Armenian Genocide, “Red Dog Howls,” by Alexander Dinelaris. The reading will take place Monday, June 25, at 7 pm at New World Stages (Stage 2), 340 W. 50th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York City. Admission is free, but seating is limited. For reservations and information, 718-291-1086.

LATEST ISSUE OF OUTREACH ON WEB PAGE
The June 2007 issue of Outreach is now on the Prelacy’s web page. A major portion of the 60-page issue is devoted to the Prelacy’s programs in Armenia and Artsakh. If you would like to see a preview of the issue currently being printed click here.

ALSO NEW ON THE WEB PAGE. . .
Press release and photos from the Prelacy Ladies Guild’s Mother’s Day luncheon click here.

The National Representative Assembly: Keynote addresses by Archbishop Oshagan, Prelate, and Jack Mardoian, chairman of the Executive Council. Click here.

IN CELEBRATION OF THE YEAR OF THE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE…
To read the message of His Holiness in Armenian click here.
To read the message of His Holiness in English click here.

His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, has designated 2007 as the Year of the Armenian Language. In celebration of this year-long tribute, each week we will offer an interesting tidbit about the Armenian language and literature:

Linguists generally classify Armenian as an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. Some Indo-Europeanists have proposed that Armenian may have been grouped together with the Hellenic branch. Others suggest that there may be a late Indo-European branch which developed into Armenian, the Hellenic branch and the Indo-Iranian branch. Armenian corresponds with other Indo-European languages in its structure, but it shares distinctive sounds and features of its grammar with neighboring languages of the Caucasus region. Armenian is rich in combinations of consonants. Both classical Armenian and the modern spoken and literary dialects have a complicated system of declining nouns, with six or seven noun cases but no gender. In modern Armenian the use of auxiliary verbs to show tense has generally supplemented the inflected verbs of classical Armenian. Grammatically, early forms of Armenian had much in common with classical Greek and Latin, but the modern language, like modern Greek, has undergone many transformations.

DAILY BIBLE READINGS
Bible readings for today, June 7, are: Proverbs 15:21-26; Isaiah 22:20-25; 1 Peter 5:1-7; Matthew 11:2-14.

Folly is a joy to one who has no sense, but a person of understanding walks straight ahead. Without counsel, plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed. To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is! For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below. The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow’s boundaries. Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure. Proverbs 15:21-26.

For listing of the entire week’s Bible readings click here.

ST. GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR’S DELIVERANCE FROM THE PIT
This Saturday, June 9, is the Feast of St. Gregory the Illuminator’s emergence from the pit (khor virab). Gregory is the greatest figure of the Armenian Church. He is recognized and memorialized in both eastern and western hierarchical churches. The Armenian Church calendar reserves three feast days in his memory: Entrance into the pit; emergence from the pit; discovery of his relics. In addition to these three, there are several feast days to which he is connected, such as, Feasts of Sts. Hripsimiantz and Sts. Gayaniantz; Feast of Shoghakat, Feast of Holy Etchmiadzin, Feast of King Tiridates (Trdat).

St. Gregory was condemned to the pit in 287 AD by King Trdat and the persecutions of Christians in Armenia began. After the persecution and martyrdom of a group of nuns who came into Armenia, led by Hripsime and Gayane, seeking refuge from persecution in Rome, Trdat came down with strange maladies. His sister, Khosrovidukht, had a dream that Gregory was the only person who could heal her brother. Miraculously Gregory was still alive after many years in the pit (thanks to an anonymous woman who regularly lowered food into the pit). The king was cured. He was baptized and he proclaimed Christianity to be the religion of Armenia.

After many years of service, during which time his evangelization of Armenia earned him the title, “The Illuminator,” Gregory retired to a cave on Mount Sepuh where he died. The site gave birth to Sourp Krikor Lousavorich Monastery, now in ruins. Photo: The late Archbishop Mesrob Ashjian and a group of pilgrims at Sourp Krikor Lousavorich Monastery in 1998. Photo by Hrair Hawk Khacherian

SUNDAY IS FEAST OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN
This Sunday, June 10, is the Feast day of Holy Mother Etchmiadzin, the cathedral built by St. Gregory after his deliverance from the pit, to the specifications he saw in a vision, and on the place marked by the Lord with a golden hammer. This feast day commemorates the establishment of the Armenian Church and the eradication of paganism. It is the oldest example of a four-altar, four-pillar, domed, cruciform church in Christian architecture. More than 1700 years old, it is the oldest surviving Armenian Christian site. The complex consists of several buildings, including the main cathedral and two other churches nearby. UNESCO recognizes the Etchmiadzin complex as a World Heritage site.

Come and construct
The holy tabernacle of light
Because it radiates for us
The light of Armenia.

From a sharagan (hymn) written by
Catholicos Sahak III Dzoraporetsi (677-703).

Calendar of Events

June 10—17th anniversary of the new St. Sarkis Church, Douglaston, New York, under the auspices of the Prelate Archbishop Oshagan. His Eminence will ordain the following altar servers as acolytes: Gerard Barikian, Shont Voskerichian, James Mengouchian, Daniel Megerian, Christapor Megherian, Peter Boyadjian and Sarkis Nersessian. Banquet and artistic program following church services. For information: 718-224-2275.

June 10—Sunday and Armenian schools graduation program, St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley, North Andover, Massachusetts, immediately following Divine Liturgy.

June 24—Ordination of acolytes by Archbishop Oshagan at St. Illuminator’s Cathedral, 221 E. 27th Street, New York City. Celebrant and sponsoring priest, Rev. Fr. Mesrob Lakissian. Father’s Day luncheon hosted by Ladies Guild immediately following the Divine Liturgy and Ordinations. For information: 212-689-5880.

June 24—Town Hall informational meeting for members, St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley, North Andover, Massachusetts, to discuss the proposed details of approved church stewardship program.

July 1-8—St. Gregory of Datev Institute, 21st annual summer Christian studies program for junior and senior high school students, at St. Mary of Providence Center in Elverson, Pennsylvania. For information click here.

July 7—St. Gregory Church, Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, gathering at the home of the parish priest, Rev. Father Bedros Shetilian.

July 9 to July 20—St. Sarkis Church Summer Camp, Douglaston, New York, for ages 5 to 12. Prayers and hymns, Armenian classes, introduction to the bible, arts and crafts, sports, and much more. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 3:00 pm. Lunch and snack will be served. Summer camp is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Antranig and Marion Boudakian. Enrollment limited to 30 students. Registration deadline June 5. Minimum donation $75. For information, 718-224-2275.

July 21—Sts. Vartanantz Church Ladies Guild, Providence, Rhode Island, and ARS Ani Chapter present “A Hye Summer Night 2.” For information 401-286-8107.

August 7—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, annual golf tournament at Blackstone Country Club. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677.

August 19—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, annual church picnic. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677.

September 9—Annual picnic of St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley at American Legion Grounds in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

September 25—Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, 4th annual golf outing at Juniper Hill Golf Course, Northboro, Massachusetts. Registration at 8 am. Tee off at 9 am. $125 includes golf cart, dinner and prizes. For information 508-852-2414.

September 27—Sts. Vartanantz Church, Ridgefield, New Jersey, 5th Annual Golf Outing at River Vale Country Club, River Vale, New Jersey. Registration begins at 11 a.m. and tee time at 1 p.m. For information, 201-943-2950.

September 29—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, 50th anniversary banquet at Pleasant Valley. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677.

October 21—St. Gregory the Illuminator Church, Philadelphia, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Fr. Nerses Manoogian, under the auspices of the Prelate, Archbishop Oshagan. For information www.saintgregory-philly.org or 215-482-9200.

November 4—37th anniversary of St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley and ordination of Nishan Dagley to the office of acolyte and stole bearer. Presided over by His Grace Bishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Vicar General of the Prelacy.

December 1—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, annual church bazaar. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677.

December 9—St. Stephen’s Church, Watertown, Massachusetts, 50th anniversary celebration. For information, (617) 924-7562.

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June 7, 2007
2007 DATEV INSTITUTE SUMMER PROGRAM We are rapidly approaching the dates for the 21st annual St. Gregory of Datev Institute Christian summer studies program, which will take place July 1 to 8 in Elverson, Pennsylvania. Sponsored by the Prelacy’s Armenian Religious Education Council, the St. Gregory of Datev Institute is under the directorship of Bishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Vicar General. The program offers an intensive seven-day religious educational program for youth ages 13 and older. The units of study include: Introduction to the Old and New Testaments, Armenian Church History and Theology, Divine Liturgy and the other Sacraments, Services and Hymns, Saints and Feasts, Contemporary Ethical issues, Armenian history and language. There are a few openings in the program. For details and registration form click here. PRELATE WILL PRESIDE OVER 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. SARKIS CHURCH AND ORDAIN ACOLYTES This Sunday, June 10, Archbishop Oshagan will ordain acolytes at St. Sarkis Church in Douglaston, New York. Altar servers to be ordained acolytes are: Gerard Barikian, Shont Voskerichian, James Mangouchian, Daniel Megerian, Christapor Megherian, Peter Boyadjian and Sarkis Nersessian. His Eminence will preside over the church’s 17th anniversary in Douglaston at a banquet and artistic program following church services. PRELATE WILL ORDAIN ACOLYTES AT ST. ILLUMINATOR’S CATHEDRAL ON JUNE 24 Archbishop Oshagan will ordain four acolytes on Sunday, June 24, at St. Illuminator’s Cathedral in New York City. The acolytes to be ordained are Zohrab (Mardo) Piranian, Mgo Piranian, Garen Vartanian, and Aram Hovsepian. On the same day the Cathedral Ladies Guild is hosting a luncheon and program dedicated to Father’s Day. The event, which is under the auspices of Archbishop Oshagan, will honor Dr. Roubik Melik Vartanian, Hagop Kazanjian, Stepan Bakalian, and Henry Gabrielian as Fathers of the Year. VICAR WILL ATTEND GRADUATION ON FRIDAY Bishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Vicar, will attend the graduation ceremony at St. Illuminator’s School in Woodside, NY, tomorrow, Friday, June 8, at 7 pm. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN ARMENIA Dr. Vazgen Ghougassian, Executive Director of the Prelacy, left for Armenia last Saturday. He will remain through next week. Dr. Ghougassian makes annual visits to meet with the Prelacy’s staff at the St. Nerses the Great Charitable Organization. “ILLUMINATIONS” NOTES AWARD TO CATHOLICOS ARAM I The latest issue of “Illuminations,” the publication of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library of Saint John’s University (Minnesota), notes the award given to His Holiness Aram I, in December. The article says in part: Saint John’s Abbey and University presented its highest honor, the Pax Christi Award, to His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, on Wednesday, December 6, 2006. “His Holiness was our first Armenian partner in the Middle East. His exceptional leadership facilitated the opening of the manuscript collection of the Catholicosate to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library,” said Fr. Columa Stewart, executive director of HMML. In his public address His Holiness Aram said, “I would like to express my deep appreciation to this university…working with us in order to preserve our intellectual, theological and spiritual heritage not only to preserve our heritage but to create the possibility of presenting it to the world.” As the highest honor awarded by Saint John’s, the Pax Christi Award recognizes those who have devoted themselves to God by working in ways akin to the tradition of Benedictine monasticism to serve others and to build a heritage of faith in the world. UNITED ARMENIAN FUND’S 143RD AIRLIFT The United Armenian Fund’s 143rd airlift arrived in Yerevan on June 2, delivering over $14 million of humanitarian assistance. This is the highest value airlift sent by the UAF in the past 18 years. The shipment included medicines and medical supplies collected by the UAF and other organizations and individuals. Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $496 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia on 143 airlifts and 1,449 sea containers. The UAF is the collective effort of the Armenian Assembly of America, Armenian General Benevolent Union, Armenian Missionary Association of America, Armenian Relief Society, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, and The Lincy Foundation. A NEW PLAY ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE Shotgun Productions and Resistance Theatre is presenting a staged reading of a new play about the Armenian Genocide, “Red Dog Howls,” by Alexander Dinelaris. The reading will take place Monday, June 25, at 7 pm at New World Stages (Stage 2), 340 W. 50th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York City. Admission is free, but seating is limited. For reservations and information, 718-291-1086. LATEST ISSUE OF OUTREACH ON WEB PAGE The June 2007 issue of Outreach is now on the Prelacy’s web page. A major portion of the 60-page issue is devoted to the Prelacy’s programs in Armenia and Artsakh. If you would like to see a preview of the issue currently being printed click here. ALSO NEW ON THE WEB PAGE. . . Press release and photos from the Prelacy Ladies Guild’s Mother’s Day luncheon click here. The National Representative Assembly: Keynote addresses by Archbishop Oshagan, Prelate, and Jack Mardoian, chairman of the Executive Council. Click here. IN CELEBRATION OF THE YEAR OF THE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE… To read the message of His Holiness in Armenian click here. To read the message of His Holiness in English click here. His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, has designated 2007 as the Year of the Armenian Language. In celebration of this year-long tribute, each week we will offer an interesting tidbit about the Armenian language and literature: Linguists generally classify Armenian as an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. Some Indo-Europeanists have proposed that Armenian may have been grouped together with the Hellenic branch. Others suggest that there may be a late Indo-European branch which developed into Armenian, the Hellenic branch and the Indo-Iranian branch. Armenian corresponds with other Indo-European languages in its structure, but it shares distinctive sounds and features of its grammar with neighboring languages of the Caucasus region. Armenian is rich in combinations of consonants. Both classical Armenian and the modern spoken and literary dialects have a complicated system of declining nouns, with six or seven noun cases but no gender. In modern Armenian the use of auxiliary verbs to show tense has generally supplemented the inflected verbs of classical Armenian. Grammatically, early forms of Armenian had much in common with classical Greek and Latin, but the modern language, like modern Greek, has undergone many transformations. DAILY BIBLE READINGS Bible readings for today, June 7, are: Proverbs 15:21-26; Isaiah 22:20-25; 1 Peter 5:1-7; Matthew 11:2-14. Folly is a joy to one who has no sense, but a person of understanding walks straight ahead. Without counsel, plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed. To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is! For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below. The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow’s boundaries. Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure. Proverbs 15:21-26. For listing of the entire week’s Bible readings click here.
	ST. GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR’S DELIVERANCE FROM THE PIT This Saturday, June 9, is the Feast of St. Gregory the Illuminator’s emergence from the pit (khor virab). Gregory is the greatest figure of the Armenian Church. He is recognized and memorialized in both eastern and western hierarchical churches. The Armenian Church calendar reserves three feast days in his memory: Entrance into the pit; emergence from the pit; discovery of his relics. In addition to these three, there are several feast days to which he is connected, such as, Feasts of Sts. Hripsimiantz and Sts. Gayaniantz; Feast of Shoghakat, Feast of Holy Etchmiadzin, Feast of King Tiridates (Trdat).
St. Gregory was condemned to the pit in 287 AD by King Trdat and the persecutions of Christians in Armenia began. After the persecution and martyrdom of a group of nuns who came into Armenia, led by Hripsime and Gayane, seeking refuge from persecution in Rome, Trdat came down with strange maladies. His sister, Khosrovidukht, had a dream that Gregory was the only person who could heal her brother. Miraculously Gregory was still alive after many years in the pit (thanks to an anonymous woman who regularly lowered food into the pit). The king was cured. He was baptized and he proclaimed Christianity to be the religion of Armenia. After many years of service, during which time his evangelization of Armenia earned him the title, “The Illuminator,” Gregory retired to a cave on Mount Sepuh where he died. The site gave birth to Sourp Krikor Lousavorich Monastery, now in ruins. Photo: The late Archbishop Mesrob Ashjian and a group of pilgrims at Sourp Krikor Lousavorich Monastery in 1998. Photo by Hrair Hawk Khacherian SUNDAY IS FEAST OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN This Sunday, June 10, is the Feast day of Holy Mother Etchmiadzin, the cathedral built by St. Gregory after his deliverance from the pit, to the specifications he saw in a vision, and on the place marked by the Lord with a golden hammer. This feast day commemorates the establishment of the Armenian Church and the eradication of paganism. It is the oldest example of a four-altar, four-pillar, domed, cruciform church in Christian architecture. More than 1700 years old, it is the oldest surviving Armenian Christian site. The complex consists of several buildings, including the main cathedral and two other churches nearby. UNESCO recognizes the Etchmiadzin complex as a World Heritage site. Come and construct The holy tabernacle of light Because it radiates for us The light of Armenia. From a sharagan (hymn) written by Catholicos Sahak III Dzoraporetsi (677-703).

Calendar of Events June 10—17th anniversary of the new St. Sarkis Church, Douglaston, New York, under the auspices of the Prelate Archbishop Oshagan. His Eminence will ordain the following altar servers as acolytes: Gerard Barikian, Shont Voskerichian, James Mengouchian, Daniel Megerian, Christapor Megherian, Peter Boyadjian and Sarkis Nersessian. Banquet and artistic program following church services. For information: 718-224-2275. June 10—Sunday and Armenian schools graduation program, St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley, North Andover, Massachusetts, immediately following Divine Liturgy. June 24—Ordination of acolytes by Archbishop Oshagan at St. Illuminator’s Cathedral, 221 E. 27th Street, New York City. Celebrant and sponsoring priest, Rev. Fr. Mesrob Lakissian. Father’s Day luncheon hosted by Ladies Guild immediately following the Divine Liturgy and Ordinations. For information: 212-689-5880. June 24—Town Hall informational meeting for members, St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley, North Andover, Massachusetts, to discuss the proposed details of approved church stewardship program. July 1-8—St. Gregory of Datev Institute, 21st annual summer Christian studies program for junior and senior high school students, at St. Mary of Providence Center in Elverson, Pennsylvania. For information click here. July 7—St. Gregory Church, Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, gathering at the home of the parish priest, Rev. Father Bedros Shetilian. July 9 to July 20—St. Sarkis Church Summer Camp, Douglaston, New York, for ages 5 to 12. Prayers and hymns, Armenian classes, introduction to the bible, arts and crafts, sports, and much more. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 3:00 pm. Lunch and snack will be served. Summer camp is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Antranig and Marion Boudakian. Enrollment limited to 30 students. Registration deadline June 5. Minimum donation $75. For information, 718-224-2275. July 21—Sts. Vartanantz Church Ladies Guild, Providence, Rhode Island, and ARS Ani Chapter present “A Hye Summer Night 2.” For information 401-286-8107. August 7—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, annual golf tournament at Blackstone Country Club. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677. August 19—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, annual church picnic. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677. September 9—Annual picnic of St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley at American Legion Grounds in Haverhill, Massachusetts. September 25—Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, 4th annual golf outing at Juniper Hill Golf Course, Northboro, Massachusetts. Registration at 8 am. Tee off at 9 am. $125 includes golf cart, dinner and prizes. For information 508-852-2414. September 27—Sts. Vartanantz Church, Ridgefield, New Jersey, 5th Annual Golf Outing at River Vale Country Club, River Vale, New Jersey. Registration begins at 11 a.m. and tee time at 1 p.m. For information, 201-943-2950. September 29—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, 50th anniversary banquet at Pleasant Valley. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677. October 21—St. Gregory the Illuminator Church, Philadelphia, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Fr. Nerses Manoogian, under the auspices of the Prelate, Archbishop Oshagan. For information www.saintgregory-philly.org or 215-482-9200. November 4—37th anniversary of St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley and ordination of Nishan Dagley to the office of acolyte and stole bearer. Presided over by His Grace Bishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Vicar General of the Prelacy. December 1—Soorp Asdvadzadzin Church, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, annual church bazaar. For information www.armenianchurchofwhit.org or 508-234-3677. December 9—St. Stephen’s Church, Watertown, Massachusetts, 50th anniversary celebration. For information, (617) 924-7562.

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