Sun Sash: March 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Sun Sash - Resurrection

Resurrection

An angel of the Lord came down from heaven, and going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

~Matthew the Evangelist

Happy Easter!

Christ has Risen!

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Sun Sash - Courage

Courage!
The victory is mine. I have overcome this world.
~Jesus

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Sun Sash - Completion

Completion
His disciples deserted him. Near the cross stood Jesus’ mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Jesus said,“It is completed.” Bowing his head, he gave up his life.

This week on the Next Step...

From Thursday to Easter

Next Step #251: Some important steps from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday. St. Basil on the Institution of the Holy Eucharist, on understanding the Body & Blood within the Sacrament. The Orthodox Church comes together with HH Karekin I, HH Bartholomew, HH Francis - Three Pontiffs sharing the Kiss of Peace, representing the ONE HOLY & UNIVERSAL Church. On the Prime number 251 = 79 + 83 + 89 = 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47. Happy Easter to All! Christ is Risen... Քրիստոս Յարեաւ ի Մեռելոց, Օրհնեալ է յայտնութիւնն Քրիստոսի:

Anush's Pomegranate Seeds: Easter Traditions
Three Pontiffs (see minute 1:30 and on)
Song: "He is Resurrected, Alleluia" by Rula Kishek
Holy Week Meditations
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for epostle.net
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Video Instruction: In Step w/Christ

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Sun Sash - Example

Example

After Jesus washed the disciples’ feet, he put on his robes and returned to his place at the table... He said, "If I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you too must wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example: just as I have done, you also must do.

~John 13

On Entering into Holy Week...

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Sun Sash - Busy

Busy

Today was the busiest day in the life of our Lord Jesus. Each lesson he taught or miracle he did were a Gospel in themselves.

~Archbishop Hovnan Derderian

(Holy Tuesday service)

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Video Instruction: In Step w/Christ
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Sun Sash - Detraction

Detraction

Use of archaic terms like virgin and maiden deflect our attention from Christ's message. Go ahead, put yourself in place of the character.

~From Holy Week Series

Listen to Fr. Vazken's Message for Tuesday - Remembrance of the 10 Maidens
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Sun Sash - Time

Time

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

~Albert Schweitzer

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Sun Sash - Whip

Whip

‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’

~Jesus

Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. He cleans everything that does not belong there.

On Entering into Holy Week...

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Sun Sash - Chance?

Chance?

Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died..."

~from the Raising of Lazarus

With these words begins the Holy Week of the Armenian Church.

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Sun Sash - Definition

Definition

The Love that we share with others defines who we are in, for and around life itself. We have a new definition today. We have a new lease on life.

~Lenten Journey Day 40

In Context:
Lenten Journey Day 40 – Worship What a beautiful day today is. It is day 40 – forty days ago we began this Lenten Journey. We feel a sense of accomplishment. It is a good feeling. It has been 40 days of fasting – abstaining from certain foods. It has been 40 days of intensifying our prayer life. It has been 40 days of charitable giving, not merely by writing out checks but giving pieces of our self. We have counted our READ

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken Movsesian

Andrew & Peter: Always Brothers

21 Mar 2013

Next Step #250: The Vernal Equinox is celebrated by bringing a bright star to the Northern Hemisphere - Pope Francis I is inaugurated in the company of the brother who at one point called his attention away from the fishing nets to fish for men. Saints, Patriarchs and Popes - It can get confusing. His Holiness to His Holiness: Patriarch Bartholomew's message to Pope Francis. Cheap & Costly Grace - an end of Lent reflection as an entrance to Holy Week.
Lenten Journey: www.armodoxy.blogspot.com
Anush's Pomegranate, "The Journey Continues"
Song: From Holy Week, Vem Recording - at this time there is no reference on the Internet. We will update when available
Fr. Vazken's "Got-me-did-it-get-you? Moment"
Patriarch Bartholomew's message to Pope Francis
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sun Sash - Light Switch

Light Switch
Leave a room and turn off the lights. The room becomes so dark that those people in it cannot see the light switch. You are the light of the world. Shine. Turn on the switch. Provide hope, faith and love.

~Lenten Journey Day 39

In context...

Lenten Journey Day 39-Light and Salt

Change. We have changed through the Lenten Season. In fact, our Lord Jesus Christ is the author of change. He advocated our need to change. He taught us a path to get back home through repentance. He expressed through words and his life, that through simplicity we can find happiness and inner peace.

Christ has the ability to change evil into good. Certainly, at the Cross, he READ

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Sun Sash - Rx

The Beatitudes are a prescription for happiness. They are hope.

~Lenten Journey Day 38

Lenten Journey, Day 38: Happiness & Blessing
iness & BlessingsThe Declaration of Independence of the United States proclaims that people are endowed by their creator to have the unalienable right to pursue happiness. Striving for happiness can be expensive for many. Some people forget and forsake all else for the sake of happiness. Often we view happiness as an end in itself, forgetting that happiness can serve a greater end, and that end we call life. In the Sermon on the Mount our Lord Jesus Christ offers a plan for happiness, which many times seems to be at odds with READ

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sun Sash - The Work

The Work

By his actions, St. Joseph said yes to God's call.

In Context...
Lenten Journey Day 37 – Born Again
One evening in the life of our Lord Jesus, he was approached by a man named Nicodemus who seemingly complimented him. According to the Gospel of St. John, Nicodemus said to Jesus, “we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus responds to Nicodemus in a rather awkward and unusual manner. Ordinarily you would expect the answer to such a compliment to be a kind thanks, or at the very least an acknowledgement. Instead Jesus turns READ

In our prayers - His Holiness Pope Francis I
Mass for the Inauguration of HH Pope Francis I

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Monday, March 18, 2013

Sun Sash - Cost

Cost

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Context

Lenten Journey #36 - Discipleship

It would have been appropriate to start this Lenten Journey the topic of discipleship. I have intentionally left it toward the end of the Journey, because as I sure you will agree, discipleship means something different to you today than it did 35 days ago.

The word disciple means student, or a follower of a person. In the Bible, disciples were those who were in Jesus’ company, those who were learning from him. This group went on to become apostles. Apostle means one who is sent. Once they had learned from Jesus, the disciples were READ

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Video Instruction: In Step w/Christ
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Sun Sash - Primary

Primary

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

~Jesus

In context...
Lenten Journey Day 35-Last Days

Today’s Lenten meditation is a riddle of sorts. It begins with the very basic question, how can we be prepared for the return of Jesus Christ? As it unfolds we find a very unique message with the instruction we need, with the exact steps we need to go through in preparation for a cataclysmic event. These instructions, however, have more to do with today than with tomorrow. This last Sunday of the Lent is called referred to as the Sunday of Advent in the Armenian Church.

In the Creed of Nicaea, which we recite every Sunday during the Divine Liturgy, we confess the second coming. We say, Jesus is to return to READ

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Sun Sash - Farsightedness

Farsightedness

Truly, farsightedness is a very special gift given to the Christian,
to see crucifixions through the lens that reveals resurrection.

~Lenten Journey #34

Lenten Journey #34 - Farsightedness

On this final Saturday of the Lenten season, the Armenian Church commemorating St. Gregory the Illuminator’s (circa 290AD) admission into the “Great Pit” (Khorvirab). The Great Pit was a place of exile and punishment, where St. Gregory was sentenced for the capital offense of spreading the Christian Gospel through Armenia. For thirteen long years he remained in that subterranean dungeon, being nourished and cared for by the prayer and love of a faithful young lady who had converted to Christianity. He found the strength – the kind which comes from within – to challenge the system and to remain faithful to the principles and beliefs that are at the core of Christianity. Meanwhile, the message of Christ had been planted and was now blossoming, in this young girl’s heart. Both St. Gregory and this young lady, Khosrovidughd, showed strength and MORE

This week on the Next Step

White Smoke Tweets

Fr. Vazken Movsesian 14 Mar 2013

Next Step #249: From the white smoke a tweet signals the election of Pope Francis and opening the doors of the fourth estate. Fr. Vazken refects on this election, the Pope, Orthodoxy and the Catholicism. Issues of social justice and the times ahead will be challenging. Spinning the Pope - News alert on the Pope and Armenian victimization. Toward the end of the Lenten season and the End of times - where to focus your attention. Final thoughts on living in the eternal present. The God question in cosmology. Why Armodoxy is necessary at this point. Pi Day, though its just an approximation, it'll get better in 2 years. Sharing a book list.
Song: Our Father "Hayr Mer" by Duduk Quartet
Anush's Pomegranate Seed: Walking by Heart with God
Coming up this Sunday - Gala Danilova will be talking about the landmine clearing in Artzakh - streamed at http://epostle.net
Women are grumpier than men in the morning
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Sun Sash - Signs

Signs

Alongside the birds of the air and the lilies of the fields are the simple smiles of our children, the warm embraces of our loved ones, the monumental signs of the mountains, the crashing waves, the moon and stars, each of them telling us, as Albert Einstein says, “God does not play dice with the universe.” ~Lenten Journey Day 33

In context: Armodoxy.Blogspot.com

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White Smoke Tweets

Fr. Vazken Movsesian 14 Mar 2013

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Sun Sash - Start

Start

Now, I would like to give you a blessing, but first I want to ask you for a favor. Before the bishop blesses the people, I ask that you pray to the Lord so that he blesses me.

~Pope Francis I

Pope Francis I's first words after election:

(Reuters) - Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, delivered his first blessing and message to Rome and the world about an hour after his election as successor of Pope Benedict. Here is a transcript of his first words as pope as translated by Reuters from the Italian.

"Brothers and sisters, good evening.

"You know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals went almost to the end of the world to get him. But here we are.

"I thank you for this welcome by the diocesan community of Rome to its bishop. Thank you.

"First of all, I would like to say a prayer for our bishop emeritus, Benedict XVI. Let us all pray together for him, let us all pray together for him so that the Lord my bless him and that the Madonna may protect him."

(The new pope then prayed the "Lord's Prayer", the "Hail Mary" and the "Glory Be" with the crowd in Italian).

He then continued:

"And now, let us start this journey, bishop and people, bishop and people, this journey of the Church of Rome, which leads all the Churches in charity, a journey of fraternity, of love, of trust among us.

"Let us always pray for us, one for the other, let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity. I hope that this journey of the Church that we begin today and which my cardinal vicar, who is here with me, will help me with, may be fruitful for the evangelisation of this beautiful city.

"Now, I would like to give you a blessing, but first I want to ask you for a favour. Before the bishop blesses the people, I ask that you pray to the Lord so that he blesses me. This is the prayer of the people who are asking for the blessing of their bishop.

"In silence, let us say this prayer of you for me."

(After a few seconds of silent prayer, he then delivered his blessing).

He then concluded:

"Now, I will give you and the whole world a blessing, to all men and women of good will. Tomorrow I want to go to pray to the Madonna so that she protects all of Rome. Good night and have a good rest."

Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/pope-succession-text-idINDEE92C0GT20130313
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; editing by Crispian Balmer)

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