LJ2021 - Day 39 - Abide

Lenten Journey 2021:
Faith in a Post Pandemic World
by Fr. Vazken Movsesian

Day 39: Abide
If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. - Jesus (John 14:15-17

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are revealed in this statement of Christ. To abide in God means to know God. Knowing does not necessarily mean understanding, but it does mean accepting and acting in accordance with His commandment to love. The Lenten Journey has as its goal abiding in Christ and therefore, to love.

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LJ2021 - Day 38 - Christ

Lenten Journey 2021:
Faith in a Post Pandemic World
by Fr. Vazken Movsesian

Day 38: Christ

Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me. - Jesus (Matthew 25:31-46)

The transitive property (of equality) says that if a=b and b=c then a=c. In Christ we find transitive property of life, namely that to serve God means to serve people. To love God means to love people, your brother, sister, and neighbor. 

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LJ2021 - Day 35 - Basics

Lenten Journey 2021:
Faith in a Post Pandemic World
by Fr. Vazken Movsesian

Day 35: Basics
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.   This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. - Jesus (Matthew 22)

We enter the final week of this year's Lenten Journey. A life touched by a pandemic has complicated our lives in many ways. Finding the basics, the simple "bottom line," is part of the Lenten Journey. Jesus cuts through the law and the prophets and profoundly proclaims the message of love - toward God and toward neighbor. See and find the basics of life today, they are not too different from what has been basic to life from the beginning. 

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Worship

Day 40 - An appropriate - perhaps the ONLY - way to bring the Lenten season to an end as Fr. Vazken ties it all together around the theme of worship. The importance of Love in the daily diet of life.
Prayer: Meditation on the True Vine (John 15);
Songs: Selections from Music of Armenia - Medieval Sharagans (CD2) and from "Crossing" by Arax;
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Trust

Day 32 - Trusting the love within us by Trusting God. We trust through a learning process that removes fear and chaos in our lives. We now move from a walk of faith to a path of action during this Lenten Season.
Prayer of Trust;
Music: "Amen Hayr Sourp" Yerevan Women's Choir;
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God's Power

Day 31 - Does God have power over evil? The answer is in his definition of Love and the Power of the Crucifixion and ultimately Resurrection. Here we find God’s answer to our ultimate prayer. A continuing meditation on the Problem of Evil - why cancer? why earthquakes? and why to innocent people?
Prayer: St. Patrick's Breastplate;
Music - "Arevakal" by the Seminarians of the Vazkenian Seminary at Lake Sevan;
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The Prodigal Son’s Father

Day 15 - The Father gives us an example of God's love and compassion while showing us a way to live our lives.
Music: Hrashapar by Vazkenian Seminarians at Lake Sevan and the Bricklayers Beautiful Daughter by William Ackerman.
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Intense Fasting – Fasting beyond the food

Day 5 - Step it up a notch. You made it through your fist week, stay on track. Be encouraged by accomplishments and challenged by faults. Focus on the real purpose, and find Love as the means and the answer to your journey.
Music: "Arevakal" by the students of the Vazkenian Seminary at Lake Sevan.
Prayer by St. Nersess Shnorhali, verse 9/24.
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