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Blessed Memory

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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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Dalmatic Ease

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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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The Forgotten 4th Dimension

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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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Evolving to 97.5

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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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Practices and Distractions

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Next Step #607: Rev. Martin Luther King and the message of non violence: Connecting to St. Vartan (451) and the Velvet Revolution (2018). Meeting with Rev. James Lewis – “The Non-Violence or Black Church Movement.” Distractions from the comics to the comix, from the Grammy to the Super Bowl. A validation of Armodoxy and the Armodoxy playbook from the most obvious places.
Shirley Ceasar, “God will take care of you”
Rev. Dr. James Lawson
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “Last Christmas Sermon”
King’s Sermon Audio
Fr. Vazken’s 1998 MLK Sermon
Gus and the Train
Nicene Creed
Cover: “Distraction” 2008 V. Movsesian, Brazil
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Children & God

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Next Step #586: Do children need God? Keeping God close and in focus; Finding God not so much without as much as within, especially in the heart. Jesus’ invitation to accept the Kingdom as children; so who’s leading who? Fr. Vazken is challenged and shares some insights on making God real, front and center in the lives of our children. A model for Sunday School built into the Divine Liturgy of the Ancient Orthodox Church.
Focused Vision
St. Nectarios
Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Church
Cover: Building block of God, Fr. Vazken 2019
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Name & Legacy

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Next Step #585: The legacy of Catholicos Vazken I – what do we take away from him 25 years after his death. His name, a special calling and expression of the Holy Spirit. One Vazken to the next in this edition. An angel named Alyssa visits and makes a 25 year old connection.
Alone Again Or by Love
25th Anniversary Video Tribute
Vazken I – Addresses & Messages PDF
Photo Gallery of 25th Anniversary Event
Vazken on Vazken: Personal Reflections
Cover: Catholicos’ tomb close up
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C^2 at the Transfiguration

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Next Step #582: From E=mc^2 to the Divine Liturgy – the Peace of Christ being beyond understanding and words, is matched up against the constant speed of light in a manner only Fr. Vazken can. Here’s a connection of dots – a religious unified field theory – that brings it together; the scriptures of Transfiguration and astrophysics, lending to the discussion of mass/energy equivalence and why did you become a priest, Fr. V? More so, the gross and vulgar expressions of Vartavar in the light of the Light: grab a ticket to Magic Mountain. Laugh tracks and canned laughter – being told what’s funny, what’s not and what’s acceptable (a loaded word but only if from the church!)
“About the Light” Gor Mkhitarian from the Spirit Album
Unified Field Theory
Mass Energy Equivolence
Sasnashen Youth Center
Transfiguration Narrative
NPR on Laugh Tracks (Study Confirms)
Neil Degrasse Tyson Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Stephen Colbert
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Closed Box Church

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Next Step #581: Back from Armenia and specifically a visit to the village of Sasnashen, site of the US Air Force C-130 Shoot Down, Fr. Vazken debriefs with the listeners in this episode. A preliminary look at the Sasnashen Youth Center Project. Closed boxed churches to keep God away from us: The need for relevance here, there and everywhere. Financial responsibility in the church: PETA would be proud of this model! Living legends continue to inspire with music – McCartney and Anderson. Touching Armenia via the spirit: Saluting the unsung heroes. And much more.
Get Back by the Beatles
Liyah Babayan – Refugee Interview (NPR)
Sasnashen Story (July 2019)
Transfiguration – Fr. Vazken’s Message
For Michael Collins, Andrew and Dad
ANCA – Middle East Christians
Scrambled Eggs (pre-Yesterday)
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Mother’s Gift at the Gate

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Next Step #571: Never a Mother’s Day without mother: Consecration of bishops at Holy Etchmiadzin. Mother at the Foot of the Cross today: Cradle to grave imagery. Pentecost has never come so early! Thoughts and prayers from Etchmiadzin. Implementing the Mission Statement of the Church: Abortion rights, free will and the fear of war. Finding the Call of Christ through the Church.
Garabala
MLK: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Consecration of Bishops
Last Week’s Next Step: Bishop’s Testimony
Order of Darkness Sermon by Fr. Vazken
iAct
Soufra Screening
Innovate Armenia
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