Saturday - 10:00
An investigation into central fundamental issues such as the meaning of life, our calling, the search for truth, the choice of the spiritual way. Additionally, we investigate other themes such as dogmatic purity and the recognition of one’s own tradition. All these and more are discussed by the participants of Spiritual Discussions.
What are the Church’s responses to these challenging questions? What is the relationship between the spiritual and material aspects of life? Is it possible to reach perfection in this life? How does one carry out the commandments of Christianity? What should be our attitude towards various sects? How should we protect our children and ourselves from “spiritual deformations”? Thorough responses and discussions to these questions and other important issues will be heard in Spiritual Discussions.

- Fr. Ghazar Petrosyan
It's a well-known notion that not everything happens by God's will but everything happens by His permission. How to understand this? Isn't permission an action that follows will? How to recognize the Lord's blessed will, which is entirely good, and His permitting will, which can act because of respecting the human free will?



- Fr. Dajad Davidian
What does external peace give to the world and does it suffice? What is the difference between external and internal peaces? Why was Christ called the Prince of Peace while Satan, the prince of this world? Does this mean that the domain of the prince of this world can't hold the true peace? We know what wars cost and what price we pay for them; what is then the price of peace?



- Reader Khachik Vardanyan
On the one hand, the Lord says: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest," and on the other hand He says, "Take My yoke on you." How to understand this? What do the words "yoke" and "burden" mean here? How to share Christ's burden and yoke?



- Reader Karen Hovsepyan
What's the reason for using the words Word and Logos interchangeably for Christ in different texts? How to understand the Beginning if it's about the Uncreated One with no beginning? How to live in the Word of the Lord or in God the Word?



There have been events in the life of each of us that have been like a miracle. But this hasn't been a prerequisite for all to believe in God's existence and turn to the Lord. How can different occasions and circumstances result in worship of the same God? How does the life of the human who has found God differ from the life of someone who hasn't found Him?
- Fr. Dajad Davidian



- Fr. Dajad Davidian
Why did Jesus give so much importance to Peter's confession of faith? Why did He say that it wasn't body and blood that revealed it to him but only the heavenly Father? On the one hand, it is Christ that is called a rock in Isaiah's Prophesy, and on the other hand the Lord calls Peter a rock. How to understand this? Shouldn't each Christian be like a rock on which God's living Church, both the triumphant and the militant, has been built and continues to be built?



Every day we pronounce words but how many of our words in a day concern eternal things? Why are we so attached to earthly and temporary things? Can anything that is not for the eternal life, is not eternal, be a value in reality? Can we create eternal values in the little steps of our everyday life?
- Fr. Mikayel Nurijanyan



- Fr. Dajad Davidian
Why does the Lord present, on the one hand, His real brothers and sisters, and on the other hand says that anyone who loves their family members more than Him is not worthy of Him? Is it possible that these words are about hermits and monks? Maybe they are about our attachments? And how can loving be more or less; can love be measured?



- Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan
What did the fact of the Resurrection of Christ give humanity? Aren't the true Christians the fruits of that Resurrection? In our daily mortal life, how can we profit from the fruits of the Lord's Resurrection? In which case will the Resurrection as a permit to eternal life bypass humans?



- Fr. Hovsep Sargsyan
How to recognize the little and the big, and what is faithfulness in a very little thing? The theme of the "little human" has been discussed since the beginning of the last century. Modern humans have become even smaller in their everyday tasks. Today, people more speak of the factor of social groups than of individuals. Isn't the art of little steps predominantly the issue of modern humans? How to persevere in the faithfulness in little things?



- Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan
The Holy Week that is also called a week of passions is full of events that bring the earthly works of the economy of our Lord Jesus Christ to accomplishment. This is a week full of awe-inspiring mysteries. What spiritual lessons should Christians learn from this week that ends Lent and brings the good tidings of the Resurrection?



- Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan
What phenomenon is the Enlightener as a person, patriarch and Christian? Why did he choose to serve God exactly where his martyrdom was inevitable? What was the reason that after the bloodless martyrdom of 14 years he was so humble that did not consecrate any church until he got the right for consecration? Why did he give priority to spiritual healing rather than bodily healing in the process of Christianization of the whole nation?



- Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan
What phenomenon is the Enlightener as a person, patriarch and Christian? Why did he choose to serve God exactly where his martyrdom was inevitable? What was the reason that after the bloodless martyrdom of 14 years he was so humble that did not consecrate any church until he got the right for consecration? Why did he give priority to spiritual healing rather than bodily healing in the process of Christianization of the whole nation?



- Fr. Dajad Davidian
What does Jesus call "trouble"? How to follow someone who doesn't promise welfare, comfort, glory and honor, but says that we will have trouble and that the door is narrow?



- Fr. Dajad Davidian
What is thanksgiving and why does it go in parallel with glorifying? In the episode of the multiplication of loaves, we see how Jesus Himself gave thanks to the Father and it was followed by the multiplication of loaves. Does this mean that when we give thanks for what we have, the Lord multiplies it? Why isn't the contemporary human thankful?



- Fr. Mikayel Nurijanyan
Why does nothing make us happy for a lasting time? What was desirable yesterday is not interesting for us today also. Why isn't the object of our joy permanent? What is the difference between secular and spiritual joys? How to attain the perfect joy of spirit or the joy that has no sadness?



- Fr. Smbat Sargsyan
In the Bible we can find about both Aaronic priesthood and that of Melchizedek. What was their difference, and why was Jesus Christ's priesthood considered a priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek? What is the Christian priesthood? Why did the Church need priesthood, and why is priesthood one of the seven sacraments of the Church?



- Fr. Smbat Sargsyan
Why does the Bible say that God's counsels are not like ours, neither His ways. Then how to understand God's counsels and walk in His way? Have the counsels and ways of the saints become the same with God's counsels and ways?



- Fr. Smbat Sargsyan
Why does the Lord say about Himself that He has no place to lay His head? Does that place depend on us, humans? What to do so that the Lord may find rest in us? How to enter into the rest of the Lord so that He may also find rest in us?



- Fr. Smbat Sargsyan
Why does the Lord say that He and His Father are one? Does He allude to serving the same purpose or does He mean the sameness of persons? Or how to understand the words: "Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father"? What is oneness? What is the difference between the oneness of Jesus with the Father and the oneness of Jesus with us? How to become one with the Lord?



- Fr. Smbat Sargsyan
What is a temptation? When can a temptation become a trouble? How does our temptation by God differ from the temptation by Satan? How to recognize who is our tempter, God, Satan or we ourselves? How should a Christian behave in case of any temptation?



- Fr. Smbat Sargsyan
Why did the Lord condemn Satan's offer to make stones bread, a sinless offer at first sight? Why did the Lord show that the Word was more important than bread? In which cases can a human being be subjected to such temptation by the evil one?



- Fr. Smbat Sargsyan
In the early Christianity, the individual public confession was the accepted form of confession of sins. Why did people confess their sins publicly? Didn't this cause problems between the confessors and their environment? What does confession, in particular the individual confession, give the believer?



- Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan
When we speak about the fall of the man expelled from the Paradise, what do we think about the reason of his fall? What diminished in him? What did his physical and spiritual body change into? Does not Satan promise the same to humans today as what he promised to the first man in the Paradise? Don't modern people attempt to become almighty, that is gods, without God? Where will this lead humanity?

