Next Step #742: What can we learn from posture class as it relates to the Church. Identifying the nave of the church and the boat ride to heaven. Relevance as measured the posture of the congregants. The “mystery of the slump” is here too. A model church experience.
In His Shoes
Epostle.net
Harry Belefonte
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Next Step #741: In this edition – An explosion in Yerevan rocks the city and its people, and then stops shaking. Notre Dame burns while Etchmiadzin struggles with renovation. The search for relevance is beyond-the-beyond. Planting money and the camp meeting. A revelation at Grapeblessing leads to the strength found in Armodoxy and Epostle.
Yerevan explosion
“I found the pearl”
John 15 – the Vine and Grapes
Grapeblessing explained
Ararat 1915 by Michael Ganian
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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #730: From the words of St. Paul (Ephesians 4) to the vision of Bishop Daniel Findikyan, “Building Up the Body of Christ” is the next step in direction and opportunity for the Armenian Christian experience. Pentecost and the witness of the Holy Spirit building Christ’s Holy Church: Direction for the Christian Church. Spiritual music from the Monastery of Holy Geghart. “Going back to move forward” – a quick look at Luke 2.
Building Up the Body of Christ by Bishop Daniel Findikyan (text & audio)
Second Palm Sunday Sermon
Unleashing his vision (2018 Interview with Bp. Daniel)
Story of Pentecost
Cover: Ruins of Havuts Monastery Armenia at Sunset, V. Kulkov
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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #729: Ascension… The story of Christ continues through the Church with a strict command to NOT look up. The work of the Church is around us. The shooting in Texas, the death of children, and conditions of the world… where then to look? Beyond the “whys” is the “where” – making sense of faith on the street and not in the books… The Next Step is a step toward Armodoxy.
Ascension according to Acts
Texas Shooting
NPR: What now?
The Sound of Santour
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Next Step #726 with Fr. Vazken: Bubbles and more bubbles on Cinco de Mayo. Reflections/meditation on putting together a picnic, a diocese and life. An encore presentation of “Ani Bubbles.”
1927 – Making a Picnic, a Diocese and Life – Fr. Vazken
Building the Body of Christ – Bishop Daniel
Stage of Life in Hinduism
William Saroyan on the Armenian
Cinco de Mayo
Zulal
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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. Vazken connects the dots twixt the saint, us and our lives today.
St. Peprone, saint of the Armenian Church
St. Febronia of Nsibus (OCA website)
Febronia icon
Sermon on Cross of Varak
Holy Cross of Varak
Datevik “Listen to My Heart”
Gagavik lyrics
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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 COVID-19 and the legacy he leaves behind. Keeping hope alive when hope seems hopeless, when the bright star goes out. The Church, the numbers: a look at some of the sociological issues pressing against the Armenian Church, esp. in America.
Shoghakat TV eulogy of Fr. Maghakia
Fr. Maghakia: a personal reflection
A praying tribute
Fr. Maghakia sings Kilikia
WD168 this week
Labor Day Message
Cover: Window in Armenia 2009
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Next Step #682: Finding a shirt inside the dalmatic: simple steps toward relevance. Altering the altar area: how we went from dinner table to ornate altar and now searching for simplicity. Advice to a younger self: The Buddha on the road. The priesthood: Caring and loving from cradle to grave. Challenged to share advice with a younger self.
If you meet the Buddha on the Road
Diving Liturgy and Thanksgiving – AC101 Video
Declaration of Independence
Fr. Vazken’s Sermon – Church & State – 27 June 2021
Time Travel Grandfather Paradox
Dalmatic
Ray Charles, America
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Cover: Dalmaticx with Annunciation to Magi 1593, public domain
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Next Step #630: The Church in 2020 exists in a unique space and time, we’ve forgotten the basic reality of our physical universe. History and truth: changes in both? Here’s a candid look at changes that threaten and true Changes that insure growth. Coining the Fourth Dimensional Church – first looks.
Gor Mkhitarian “Protect Us”
Gor Mkhitarian
AoC on Jesus view
NS#576 “Images of Jesus”
John Meyendoroff, “Living Traditions”
Cover: Fourth Dimensional Angel, Artsax 2019, Fr. Vazken
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Next Step #609: After the impeachment trial in the US and our drift from Globalism. Church and State is blurred in Orthodoxy as we deal with Church and Ethnicity. A Handmaid’s Tale: Possibilities from Sci-fi to reality. Fr. Vazken speaks candidly about the dilemma facing the Armenian Church in particular and ‘Ethnic’ churches in general as churches celebrate nationalism. A loss for globalism and interrelations. Evolution happens: changes to body temperature is a new reading of Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”. Annual Superbowl reflection: 1/2 a minute is MORE than the budget of all the Armenian Churches and traveling at the speed of light. Ground Hog Day and basic church economics: Learning from the Dishonest Servant
Michael Gulezian
Body Temperature changes
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Christmas sermon 1967
Handmaid’s Tale
Senator Romney’s speech
Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
Dyaruntarch
Luke 2
WD-168 This week
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