The Next Step with Fr. Vazken

Fr. Vazken Movsesian

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Dawn Reset

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken

02/12/22 • -1 min

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #714: Pressing the Reset button on life: Overcoming the fear of living. Selling the product: Super Bowl to church. Scanning the news from international, to national to local: can we connect the dots? Russian, Ukraine, Iran, the US and a 34:18 bet. Expertise through the Internet and other absurd notions about brake repair. Finding your talent, your gift and purpose in life. Symbols: Valentine, Sarkis and Love.
Parable of the Talents
Abp. Torkom “Impossible Love”
Superbowl Advertising
Superbowl Ticket prices
Precursor to Mindfulness
Gor’s Spirit Album
Gor Mkhitarian
Cover: C...

Open Cafe

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken

01/20/22 • -1 min

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #711: Ordering and consuming exactly what you want and need – whether a meal, a matter of faith, a hamburger, a bowl of soup. Vantage points, geography and life circumstances in defining our religious understandings. The scorecard on chosenness.
Samaritan Woman and Jesus
Jesus beyond the three years
Joni Mitchell
Cover: Clifton's Cafeteria
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Nero & the War

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken

02/25/22 • -1 min

Nero & the War
Next Step with Fr. Vazken #716, February 24, 2022. Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned, so they tell us, taking him to a point of irrelevance as a leader. Today, Russian invades Ukraine, the country in flame and our reaction parallels the irrelevance of the Nero.
Putin Shatters Peace in Europe
Nero & the fiddle
“A religious politician” – Head of US Ukrainian Orthodox Church slams Moscow Patriarch
Pope Francis Ukraine
Fr. Vazken on Vartanantz to the High School student
Cat Stevens
Cover: Angel playing Violin, 1945-1985, National Library of France, Public Domain|Engel, Muziek, Schilder
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Empath's Christmas

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken

12/09/21 • -1 min

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #705: Interview with Alina Samuelian of FLY – Freedom Loving Youth, after her recent outreach in Gyumri. Hear this energetic empath give her first-hand account of life and living conditions in areas of the world hit by tragedy. From Syria to Lebanon to Armenia, FLY reaches out to those in need. Here’s their story articulated by a front-line worker. All this, in the context of Jesus and the “Great Banquet”
Christian Giving, Luke 14:12-24
Freedom Loving Youth
Armenian Earthquake 30 years later
2021 Toy Drive
Children’s Memorial
Peacemakers – Gabriel & Katie Jay
Earlier interview in Armenian
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Cover: In Gyumri FLY meets with mother and son

Connecting with FLY
Website
Facebook: Freedom Loving Youth-FLY
Instagram: freedom.loving.youth
YouTube
Venmo account: @fly-freedomlovingyouth
Firewood Fundraiser

Letters beyond Z

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken

01/06/22 • -1 min

Next Step with Fr. Vazken #709: “In the time of your life, live…” says Saroyan and so the new year kicks off with a message of hope. The Christ child and a case for adding extra letters to the alphabet. Gabriel & Katie Jay Stauring, requiem. Moving past your challenges before you. Remembering Sidney Poitier. Communications for the new planet. William Saroyan’s Time of your life.
Sidney Poitier changed the Oscars in 1964. The academy is still grappling with the promise of that moment.
Requiem for Gabriel & Katie Jay Stauring
The Phonetic Alphabet – US Army Alphabet
William Saroyan’s “Time of your Life” (goodreads.com)
Mary Hopkin Music
Cover: Vintage Christmas picture, Public Domain
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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