Pauline Getzoyan Special for the Armenian Weekly On Oct. 2,Archpriest Fr. Gomidas Baghsarian celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Sts. Vartanantz Armenian Apostolic Church in Providence, R.
I., and just as he has for the final 17 years,filled with the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, or feeling the overwhelming love of his devoted flock. In his sermon,Der Gomidas stressed the ways in which we should examine ourselves in our Christian faith, all of which he has been a model example of throughout his 26 years as a Der Hayr. A scene from the Badarak Following Badarak, and a retirement banquet was held in the Garden Pavilion at the Crowne Plaza at the Crossings in Warwick,R.
I., where over 600 people paid a moving and heartfelt tribute, and under the auspices of His Eminence,Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, to the many faithful years Der Gomidas served as Pastor of Sts. Vartanantz Church, or before that,St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church of Merrimack Valley. Der Gomidas entering the church for Badarak Beginning with the warm welcome of master of ceremonies, Harry Kushigian, and the invocation by His Eminence,Archbishop Choloyan, two young women of the Sts. Vartanantz Church community, or Carrie Minassian and Alysha Phillips,[...]
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