The Good fill in the blank

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Next Step 483: A reading of the Good Samaritan for today opens the discussion for relevance. The passing for Fr. Arnak Kasparian and that special class of 1948. Pastor Joel Osteen under fire for post Harvey haste, but Fr. Vazken brings yet more dimension to the conversation that has the listener looking closer to home. Much more from the POV of sincerity.
Vanoush Khanamirian – “Shepherd’s Dream”
Good Samaritan Parable
Joel Osteen under fire
Fr. Vazken’s Bible Study on Mother Teresa
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Irony of Compassion

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Next Step #482: “The bee that almost drowned” starts off this episode which brings to question our sense of Compassion. Is it a case of irony, betrayal or ungratefulness that we have lost our focus. Mother Teresa 20 years later furthers the discussion on compassion. The Eternal Present overshadowing the future.  Exposed myths: future-theology, self-made wealth and the Council of Chalcedon. The Palin endorsement and our loss of memory. And the “Dervishian Matrix” in this Next Step.
Luys Vocal Quintet “Der Voghormya”
Luys Facebook page
Gospel Singers Uplift Spirits in Storm Shelter
How Compassion Can Pay Off (Market Place)
Fr. Vazken’s Bible Study on Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa’s Prayer by Fr. John Henrey Newman
Fr. Dirayr Dervishian’s Book
Mother Teresa “No Greater Love”
LA Times OpEd – Trump’s Alternative Christianity
Hurricane Harvey donate here
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Cover: Waves made by the wings of a bee in a lake. Taken by Bogdan Giuşcă in Bucharest, 2006 – Licensed under CC BY 2.0
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Eclipsed & Reset

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Next Step #481: Post Eclipse Blues: Fr. Vazken returns from Oregon and delves into the spirituality of the solar eclipse. Charlottesville: Political response offers insight into Einsteinian insanity and it ain’t what/who you think. Beyond metaphors, the eclipsed Sun does win in the end.
Compilation of Sun-songs by Ken Nalik
Eclipse 2017
The Voyager Journeys
Bible & the Armenian Church
Time Magazine on Charlottesville
Eclipsing the Eclipse
The Oregonian
Voodoo Donuts
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Enlightenment at Assumption

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Next Step #480: The missing piece to the Asdvadzadzin puzzle – how to put it together based on the Gospels and Scriptural passages given by the Church Fathers. More puzzle pieces found: Clarification on Australia: Apples and Grapes. Back route details en route to the Eclipse, parked in Reno.
Morning has Broken by Cat Stevens
Australia Holy Resurrection Church
Yettem Pictures
Bible Studies and YouTube Armodoxy Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/armodoxy
Total Eclipse of the Sun
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Boldness in Flavor and Action

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Next Step #479: A wrong grave site and a wrong head stone lead into a discussion on faith and religion – the non-science of the day. Grapeblessing and the Asdvadzadzin – Fr. Vazken reveals a message that is lost in the vines: revealed through the passages of the day.
“We Used to Bach” Ian Anderson www.JethroTull.com
“We Used to Know 29 Years Later” blog by Fr. Vazken
AC101 on Grapeblessing
Bible Study on productivity (8/7/17)
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Fruit of the Womb

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Next Step #478: Making connections between the feast of Assumption and the fruit/grape blessing – it’s more than a story that spans a few millennia. Blue Laws in Minnesota are over. “Jeopardy” tips, Gandzasar celebrates 777th anniversary. Talents beyond the handkerchief – the fruit of St. Mary’s womb was blessed along with some other fruit, not necessarily of the grape variety. Early morning miracle comes as a bundle of joy.
Arax Crossing
Gandzasar Monastery at 777 (Armenian language with English subtitles)
Blue Laws in Minnesota are over
Donate to Avon 39 – Fr. Vazken’s walk
Cover: Fruit Stall in Barcelona Market (from Wikimedia Commons)
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Usurped again: Light & Water

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Next Step #477: Definitions for Transfiguration and Vartavar provide the groundwork for a pre-creative experience in faith. Light and water are the elements of these feasts, coming together. Elijah & Moses for sure, but how about Enoch? Only in the Eternal Jerusalem. Other – “Focused Vision” 15 years later. Borrowing from Marketting 101 – Finding the “sale” 24/7, because “Everything must go!”
“Vardavar in the Mountains” by the Tigran Hamasyan
Armenian Genocide & The Problem of Evil by Fr. Vazken Movsesian
Transfiguration in the Bible: Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2–3, Luke 9:28–36
Cover: Man, Beach, Landscape, Light – Licensed under CC BY 2.0
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Armodox Remedies

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Next Step #476: Liturgy for OCD, aids for hearing loss and faithfulness for the stroke, that’s only the beginning of remedies in Armodoxy. On this moon day, Fr. Vazken goes all over the place in connecting the dots between the spiritual, emotional, psychological and physical dimensions of our life and our planet.
“Michael Collins, Jeffrey & Me” by Jethro Tull
StarKey Hearing Foundation
St. Sahag Armenian Church in St. Paul, MN
Michael Ounjian
Maryam Mirzikhani dies of Breast Cancer
Stars come out for Starkey Gala
Avon Breast Cancer – Fr. Vazken’s walk
Photo: “Universal Remedy” c.2014 Fr. Vazken
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The Forgotten Clotting Factor

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Next Step #475: Express the Forgiveness formula in it’s most primal factors. Is something missing? Did you forget? That’s the point. Forgetting: a physical phenomena as exposed by dementia and Alzheimer’s. A look at the psychological side of forgiving with chime-ins from the world and time. Following up on the Decennial 7×77 event – from Catalina – stories of a childish fight to a finding empathy in the other. A leap from the purpose of justice. Defining history from Kodak to Snapchat.
Hrashk Manoukner “Amen Sazi”
Dr. Yervand Grigoryan’s YouTube Channel
Holy Eucharist w/Forgiveness Theme (7/10/17)
Jacqueline Leo “Seven”
7×77: Ten Years ago www.7×77.org
Bible Study on Forgiveness (7/3/17)
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Photo: Bay of Seven Moons plaque at Avalon, Catalina Island
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Decennial Markings

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Next Step #474: Stories of Forgiveness: Leticia Aguirre talks about forgiving the boys that killed her son Raul (Glendale); Ben Kayumba talks about forgiving the men who killed his mother during the Rwandan Genocide (1994). As the 7×77 Forgiveness Day comes around for its decennial rendezvous with a hurting world, here’s the challenge to forgive as we want to be forgiven. Stories that push the soul beyond the limits of its humanity to the divine realm.
Nerir Indz by Christine Pepelyan
7×77: Ten Years ago www.7×77.org
NRSV reading of Forgiveness
Bible Study on Forgiveness #3
Survivors by Don & Lorna Miller
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Photo: From 90th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide (4/24/05)
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