Entries by Vazken Movsesian

Dust goes by

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #696: What really lasts forever? From our Dust in the Wind Department: Sears closes Illinois office. Lessons for the Church. Catholicos Karekin II meets with […]

iACTivism in Armenia

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #695: Interview with iACT Founder and Chief of Vision Gabriel Stauring and iACT Executive Director Katie-Jay Stauring, about their work with refugees, displaced individuals, war, […]

Q&A: King of Glory

Deacon’s Q&A: Who is this King of glory, mighty in battle? Matenadaran Ms.3833 by Fr. Vazken Movsesian (Written for the WD Deacons’ Chant, Autumn 2021) Sunday after Sunday in the […]

Peprone

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #694: Discovering St. Peprone – a relatively unknown saint of the 3rd century, brings a message to the believer and to the world today. Fr. […]

Apologies Abound

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #693: Apologetics is the intellectual defense of the truth of the Christian religion, usually considered a branch of theology, by definition. Justifying what is beyond […]

Not even one more: COVID & Ugly Death

Fr. Maghakia Aramian of Blessed Memory (1981-2021) Arms outstretched over Sevan. The world was his. Ugliness defined: Don’t give even one more… Death is showing us its ugly head lately. […]

Post 911 & Tech

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #692: Dinah Washington sang “What a difference a day makes” … here we are 20 years times 365 of those days, a world touched by […]

Blessed Memory

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #691: The passing of Fr. Maghakia Amerian, of blessed memory, and the loss for the Church. Reflection on this young priest who tragically succumbed to […]

Oxi-Oxy

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #690: Oxymorons given to contemplation, reveal more than the meaning of a phrase or idea, but a look at incongruous and seemingly conflicting ideas. Take […]

The Evolving Face

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #689: The evolving face of the Afghani girl from the 1985 National Geographic cover to the women clinging to the last vestiges of hope as […]