Vartavar – The Transfiguration Feast
Next Step #2 This coming Sunday is referred to as Vartavar; a pagan feast transfigured into a Christian one. So today Fr. Vazken takes the next step to a […]
Entries by Vazken Movsesian
The Next Step is a New Step
Next Step #1 With this premiere broadcast, Fr. Vazken takes the next step in exploring Armenian Orthodoxy. God is experienced as Mystery, deep and inscrutable. Tune in and take this […]
Styrofoam, a Green Valley and Recycling Junk
Before it was known as Silicon Valley, the area around San Jose – the Santa Clara Valley, was also known as the Valley of the Heart’s Delight. The phrase described […]
Celebrating (not mourning) Sardarabad – 90 years later
I love the song “Sardarabad.” I love the first lines… “Yerp chi munoom yelk noo jar, khenteru en kdnoom hunar…” [roughly translated = When there exist NO means of […]
Fallen Grains of Wheat – Revisted
At the Requiem Service in the Armenian Orthodox Church, the Holy Gospel according to St. John, is read. Arguably, it is the most heard passage in the Armenian Church today, […]
Is all money, money?
Several years ago (around the early 90’s) the infamous arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian was making headlines in the Armenian press by donating to Armenian organizations and churches. He had appeared […]
An Angel’s Life Does Not End
Sunday mornings, I place my cell phone on my desk before entering the church. I figure those couple of hours in the church can be spent without being wirelessly tethered […]
Responsibilty: the Armenian Church and China
One of the many clergyman that had his impact on my life and my becoming a priest was Archbishop Asoghig Ghazarian. He served in United States in the 1950’s. Later, […]
Take two Nareg and call me in the morning
At our first Husgoom* service on Wednesday evening, when we prayed the prayer of St. Gregory of Nareg (Naregatzi), between the priests, deacons and people we had a nice rhythm […]
Life has no thumb drives
I received an ad from Office Depot just in time for the start of Lent: 40% off USB Flash drives; 2GB or more, it said in the fine print. I […]
