Fr. Vazken’s speech at the Genocide Commemoration VIGIL at UCLA sponsored by the ASA’s for USC & UCLA Good evening. I would like to thank the ASAs of both USC and UCLA for this opportunity to offer my voice to this vigil this evening. As the years move on, we are distanced from the link […]
Armodoxy for Today: Commemoration As the years move on, we are distanced from the link that ties us Genocide. When I would first come to these Genocide commemorations as a kid, there would be a stage area where the program would take place, and below it was a few rows of chairs where the Genocide […]
Armodoxy for Today: And then there were two, three and four In 2006 I had a chance to visit Rwanda with a small group of educators from the University of Southern California. It was a decade after a genocide ravaged the country and claimed 800,000 people in the course of 100 days. It was an […]
Armodoxy for Today: Remember both On April 24, Armenians throughout the world take a pause to remember the most heinous of all evil, Genocide. In 1915 a program of systematic annihilation began. The target was the Armenian people, and the perpetrator was the Ottoman Turkish government. One and a half million Armenians were slaughtered, in […]
Armodoxy for Today: The Last Requiem On April 19, 2015 I conducted the last requiem service for the Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide. That year was the 100th anniversary of a program of systematic annihilation of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian Church announced that on April 24, 2015, it would canonize […]
Armodoxy for Today: The Same Rules When I have an opportunity to teach or lecture at schools, particularly high schools and colleges, I’m rather annoyed that I’m treated as an anomaly. Well, perhaps, and I hope, it’s my topic rather than me. Students learn formulas, languages, history, but when it comes to religion, they put […]
Armodoxy for Today: Contrast What is darkness? Very simply, it is the absence of light. Darkness is only definable in the presence of light. What is evil? Very simply, it is the absence of good. Evil is defined in reference to the good. Some take this one step further and define Hell as the place […]
Armodoxy for Today: Choked with Emotions In 1985 Carl Segan and his wife Ann Druyan authored the book, “Contact.” The story was about the possibilities of contact between humans and extraterrestrial beings. About a decade later the story was made into a motion picture starring Jodi Foster and Matthew Machaney. It was fascinating because the […]
Armodoxy for Today: Celestial Trigger Triggers come in all shapes and sizes. On a gun it’s the devices that releases the mechanism to shoot. Flowers or furry animals may trigger allergies in people. And a good actor interpreting his or her parts may trigger emotions that will soften the hardest of hearts. Celestial events, such […]
Armodoxy for Today: Celestial Timetable I stood looking up at the heavens, waiting for the Moon to eclipse the Sun. We were in Texas to witness this unique phenomenon that takes place every year or two when the Moon passes between the Earth and Sun, in such a manner to be referred to as a […]
