Why did God consider the wisdom of this world foolishness and why did He choose those for accomplishment of His plan who were considered fools by this world? Why do those that are deemed wise and intelligent in this world accept divine mysteries with great difficulty? What does hinder them from becoming receptive? How to empty oneself of the wisdom of this world to be filled with divine wisdom?

Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Today, in the era of freedom of conscience and religion, the repentance of a whole nation, its conversion to the Christian religion from the king to peasants, from princes to ordinary soldiers, seems to be incomprehensible and false. How was the conversion of a whole nation into Christianity possible in the 4th century in spite of being surrounded with powerful states having other religions? Why did the Only Begotten hit the Araratian soil with a hammer and announce the start of building of Holy Etchmiadzin? What was that rich soil on which the Cathedral was built?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why did Jesus say to the apostles that if He did not go, the Comforter, that is, the Holy Spirit, would not be able to come? What additional things was the Holy Spirit to do on the Earth that had not been done by the Son? Jesus said to Nicodemus that what is born of the Spirit is spirit and what is born of the flesh is flesh and offered him to be born again, that is, to be born of the Holy Spirit. How to understand this? What was the function of the Holy Spirit in this case, and what are the functions of the Holy Spirit generally?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why did Jesus say to the apostles that if He did not go, the Comforter, that is, the Holy Spirit, would not be able to come? What additional things was the Holy Spirit to do on the Earth that had not been done by the Son? Jesus said to Nicodemus that what is born of the Spirit is spirit and what is born of the flesh is flesh and offered him to be born again, that is, to be born of the Holy Spirit. How to understand this? What was the function of the Holy Spirit in this case, and what are the functions of the Holy Spirit generally?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is holiness? Holiness and perfection are synonyms. When the Lord said, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," what level of holiness and perfection did He mean? How to attain holiness? What are its levels?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is holiness? Holiness and perfection are synonyms. When the Lord said, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," what level of holiness and perfection did He mean? How to attain holiness? What are its levels?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

It is often emphasized that Christianity is a revelational religion. Does it mean that God reveals Himself to us? But what does God reveal of Himself to us which we would not know if He did not reveal it? Is not God's natural law written in our conscience? Then what is the need to reveal additional things? By what means can God reveal Himself to humans?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why did God the Father speak through His Son in the last days? What was the Son going to say and do that had not been said and done by those who came before Him? What characteristic features does the Son demonstrate, and how does the Father reveal His Son before people? Why did the Son speak and do only what His Father willed?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

When Christ preached on the earth, He advised to take one's own cross and follow Him. This was an individual offer that concerned each human being and each Christian. How can this conscious bearing of cross happen to a whole nation? Can the Lord expect this of a whole nation? We are often told we are a cross-bearing nation. What is in reality the cross of our nation?

• Fr. Tovma Andreasyan

Why is the Holy Trinity personified? What do the terms person, identity, and individuality mean? We often resist to complying with God's will, to being with Him as one heart and soul, we fight for our freedom and rights, being afraid of losing our identity, our «ego», our freedom. Is this a substantiated fear? Can we become a complete person and identity without collaboration with God?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is Christ's Resurrection for Christians? How does it relate to our mortal  body and our spirit  grieving in this body? How does each Christian implement the act of Resurrection in their life? How, looking at Christians and their life, should someone feel that Christ was really risen?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is mercy and who needs it? What can God give humans as mercy? What would humans lose without God's mercy? Does God have mercy on us secretly or openly?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

What is the spiritual meaning of the Holy Week, and how does it spread over all the days of our life? Will not the salvation of the life of each of us be achieved through those seven days full of spiritual events and of the Lord's earthly economies? Can humans bypass their life's Holy Week that was disposed by the Lord for each of us? How is a new creation created as a result of the Holy Week—a new heaven and a new earth as well as a new human inside us?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is the meaning of the Lord's entry into Jerusalem? What is Jerusalem for a Christian, and what is our spiritual Jerusalem? Isn't our soul a blissful abode for the Lord, and isn't His triumphal entrance into it the most anticipated event? How to prepare the temple of our soul, the spiritual Jerusalem, for the Lord's entrance?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why do we wait for the Lord's Second Coming? What are our expectations from it and the reasons for our expectation? If Christians realize the Second Coming, non-Christians do not do it. Then why will the Lord come for the latter also? How to live in this waiting time: waiting in idleness or restlessly working day and night?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why is one of Lent Sundays called Sunday of the Judge? Who has the right to judge, the human being or God? How can mercy and judgment come forth from the same Person? How to live so as not to fear God's judgment?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why is one of the Sundays of Lent called Sunday of the Steward? Who is this steward and what is his economy? How to deal with the spiritual and bodily economy inherited by us from God and how to return it to its Owner losslessly and even with surplus? What are the internal and external enemies of our economy?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Speaking about the dissolute life of human beings, the Bible views it in a wide scope. Why do we consider only illegal sexual relationships as dissoluteness nowadays? What is responsible for the dissolute behavior of humans, the body or the soul? What can lead humans to dissoluteness, and what can keep them away from it? Why are holiness and decency laughed at by a dissolute person?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is expulsion? What feelings could the first expelled and exiled man, our forefather Adam, experience before the gates of the Paradise? What were the reasons and consequences of his exile? What do we feel when we are expelled from an intimate environment or heart? Why do the hearts that once loved each other become alienated, and how to restore love and intimacy?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

Why doesn't loneliness recognize age, wealth, poverty, and social status? Why is the problem of  people's loneliness so acute in the modern world? Did Jesus feel the same loneliness and abandonment on the cross as modern people do in their everyday life?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is free will and what is its function? Does a human being really have a free will? Humans like to do or choose what they love, while our will has disposition toward sin. Then how to demonstrate a free will pleasing to God, that is, a will that opposes sin? In the Lord's prayer we say: "Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven"; where is our own free will in this?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

Why is the importance of wisdom so stressed in the Old Testament and why is the fear of God considered to be the beginning of wisdom? Wisdom is described as something that has existed since the creation of the Universe; how to understand this? And how to attain wisdom?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

Only one life is given to each of us. What is the meaning of that life? Can the meaning of different people's lives also be different and acceptable according to Christianity? What is the meaning of a Christian's life? Doesn't the whole life of a human being depend on the exposition of the meaning of life?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

The Lord says: "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." But many of us complain about our cross to be different, very heavy and unbearable. How to understand this? We often ask: "What is my cross that I may take it on my shoulders?" but isn't our cross the state of our life in which we already live? What is the cross of each of us?

• Fr. Arnak Harutyunyan