Unlike many churches, the Armenian Church has always used unleavened bread (flat bread that does not contain yeast) for the Eucharist. Only flour and water—without yeast—are mixed to prepare the nshkhark, the small, round and flat “loaves” of bread that become our Holy Communion with Jesus Christ in the Badarak....

The ritual that we call the “Kiss of Peace” is an ancient Christian practice mentioned frequently in the Bible [Romans 16:16, 1 Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:25, 1 Peter 5:14], It is apparent that the earliest Christians had the custom of greeting one another “with, a holy...

Like many aspects of our liturgy, the curtain in front of the altar has both a functional purpose and a symbolic meaning. The curtain is closed three times during the Divine Liturgy. The first time is at the beginning of the Divine Liturgy, after the celebrant and altar servers have...

The Bible passages read on Sunday during the Badarak, or on any other day of the year during the church services, are appointed in the Armenian Church’s Lectionary, which is called the Jashots Keerk. Guided by this book, every Armenian Church in the world reads the very same Bible selections...