Tag Archive for: Christmas

Miracle Heartbeat

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Next Step #652: Content – The miracle heartbeat that outlasted the lease. The aged parents and the children on the front line in Artsakh. How 2020 became the best year ever: Thanksgiving. Miracles that shouldn’t be. Quantity to quality and back again: The cycle of life. Parenting books that weren’t read and weren’t missed. The Jesus gift: Christmas the way he wanted. Luke 14 as simple as it gets.
Toy Drive – for here and there
Children’s Memorial Service
WD168 this week
Thanksgiving Balloon Video
Haig Beylerian
Donate Here
Cover: HO/DD
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This is 2020

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Next Step #604: With the new decade, more searches for relevance – finding Faith after Sunday morning and throughout the week. Theophany – a point of singularity for your Faith. The Lion King’s gesture of praise and the blessing for a group on Christmas Eve. Bonhoeffer’s “Cheap Grace” and Christmas gift giving customs. Eighth Day “Milking Maid”. All the things you don’t need to say at Theophany.
Hover State Chamber Choir
VW: The Last Mile
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Motorcycle in the Smithsonian
Bonhoeffer, “The Cost of Discipleship”
“This is 20/20” Anderson Cooper and Barbara Walter
Cover Photo – Winter, Bing photo
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Light Reset

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Next Step #603: Christmas and Christmas Eve: Finding the light of the Christ Child at the manger and in the darkness of life today. (From Christmas Eve homily.) Other topics: St. Stephen, really? New life of old tech. Solstice to Christmas: The Sun/Son experience. Armenian-Hawaiian experience for in-laws.
Pentatonix “Hark the Herald Angels”
Armenian Christmas vs American Christmas
AC101: Christmas
Cover: Coke Reset Blue Screen – 2015 Fr. Vazken
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Advent: Preparing the New Wineskin

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Next Step #598: An unexpected gift at Christmas, wrapped and delivered to your living room. Fresh Christ: New Homes. Changing the habits of old with a fresh approach to Christmas and the Theophany – the Revelation of God – for us. Here is an Advent-primer to use the next 50 days heightening spirituality. Puzzle solved: Why Jesus tells the healed, “Tell know one!” Pope Francis on the plague of fundamentalism. Passing from “tolerance to peace and coexistence” and arriving at the IHS page!
Children’s Lord’s Prayer (Gomidas) – Isabel Bayrakdarian
Pope Francis on Fundamentalism
Priest killed by ISIS
Advent Season Explained
Khatchkar at Sevan Monastery
Cover: Armenia Countryside
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Moon Beams at 50

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Next Step #579: 50 years after the first steps on the moon are celebrated but not without connecting dots between the service of exorcism, demonic possession and lunacy. Jesus and the language of parables. Beyond words, scripture comes alive and finds emotional (read new) meaning as the crew of Apollo 8 pronounce a Christmas Eve message to a receptive planet. Happy forgiveness day 7×77. Rock & roll, as the earthquake hits us during the Tull concert.
Jethro Tull: Michael Collins, Jeffry and Me
George Noory Coast to Coast
Apollo 8 Christmas Message
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Babe in from the Cold

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Bringing the Babe in from the Cold

Next Step #551 – December 27, 2018 – In limbo twixt Christmas and New Year, Fr. Vazken reflects on looking inside the manger and seeing what lurks beyond. The imperfect circumstances become the perfect story in the Nativity narrative. There is joy, eagerness, wonder, obedience and peace, and yet, beyond the dangers of materialism and the filth of drugs and addiction have claimed the lives of too many. A very personal plea to look past the Baby. The measurements of strength.
A Christmas Song by Jethro Tull
In His Shoes at Christmas Message
Muhammad Ali Bouts
Cover: Moonlight over Mendocino by Fr. Vazken 2018
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Solstice Voice at Christmas

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Next Step #550: When the Sun spoke of the Son and the Solstice celebration. More on technology – with a retro look at mimeograph machines and the Church at the forefront of innovation guided by the need to evangelize. Continuing on paying your way to the Kingdom. Scottish/Armenian connection with 7 joys and 7 wounds. And on a personal note: Easter Resurrection at the time of the Nativity. In His Shoes Christmas Outreach.
Mary had a Baby by Mary Hopkin
In His Shoes Christmas Letter
NPR – Inauguration
Why January 6?
Less dramatically
Seven Wounds of St. Mary Church (Gyumri)
Ring Out Solstice Bells, Jethro Tull
Cover: Solstice Bell at Christmas, Fr. Vazken
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Advent: Sin, Faith and Duty

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Next Step #549: Sin, Faith and Duty are the lessons of this week in Advent in preparation for the Christmas celebration. Losing the Self and Ego, to make room for God. St. James of Nisibus. Violence in the world. Also In His Shoes programs for the season.
Blind Boys of Alabama
Albert’s Go Fund Me page
In His Shoes Toy Drive
St. Gregory of Narek Prayer
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Luke 17:1-10
Cover: Canadian Bear Ranger, 2018 Fr. Vazken
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Faces Near the Manger

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Next Step #499: Perspectives – looking down or looking up – finding the center point of our liturgical and common life. A Christmas special that continues and connects. Christmas Eve at the Armenian Cathedral. The story of the “Golden Ball.” Looking at Christ: Inclusion by reflecting the Christ-Light. A different sort of a Merry Christmas message.
Pentatonix “Mary Did you know?
Mary Did you know? by Madilyn Smith
Photo: At the Manger (open this for podcast discussion)
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Hope: Solstice plus 1

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Next Step #498: Exploring the Winter Solstice and it’s opportunity to hope in an end to darkness and warmer days. The first message of Christmas comes alive with hope for today. A new day for a special understanding to our connection to all of eternity. Merry Christmas to all.
John Bilezikjian “Merry Christmas”
Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow by Ian Anderson
MLK Retreat: www.InHisShoes.org/MLK
Cover: Solstice Star & the Gyroscope by Fr. Vazken 2017
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