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Talk with Fr. Barouyr
by Fr. Barouyr Shernezian
Join the Very Rev. Fr. Barouyr Shernezian, Dean of the Armenian Theological Seminary of the Catholicosate of the Great See of Cilicia, in weekly conversations in Armenian and English about the Armenian Apostolic Church, church traditions, Christian spirituality, and current events in the Church.
Episodes
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Episode 122 - Interview w/ Deacon Garo Balian - English
This week, Fr. Barouyr is joined by Deacon Garo Balian. Dn. Garo attended seminary in Bikfaya and is currently the administrator, choir director, and full-time Deacon at St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Dearborn, Michigan. They talk about some of then differences between church in the…
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Episode 121 - Church Renewal - English
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about renewal in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Fr. Barouyr highlights the importance of connecting the church with the youth, and the challenges it faces in doing so. He exhorts us to push for change at our parishes, including new approaches to…
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Episode 120 - Feeding the 5000 - Armenian
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for his sermon from St. Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church in Hollywood, California. He discusses not just the miraculous feeding, but the symbolism. The 5 loaves symbolizes the Law. The 2 fish symbolize the prophecy of the Old Testament. Moses was given two pillars…
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Episode 119 - Good Wheat - Armenian & English
This week, join Fr. Barouyr from St. Gregory the Illuminator in San Francisco. He discusses the parable of the wheat and the weeds, starting by asking the question, why does God allow weeds to be planted in our lives? He talks about what the weeds signify individually in our lives, and what they...
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Episode 118 - Mercy, Not Sacrifice - Armenian & English
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a sermon from Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church in Fresno, California. Fr. Barouyr discusses the event in Matthew when Jesus and His Apostles are picking and eating grain from a field on the Sabbath. Fr. Barouyr explains that the Bible doesn’t exist to judge…
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Episode 117 - Gratitude - English
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about gratitude. Gratitude extends beyond giving thanks, and moves us into action. True gratitude isn’t just a feeling, it’s action directed at others. Fr. Barouyr encourages us to be grateful and show our gratitude with our actions.
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Episode 116 - Discovering John 17 - English 🇬🇧
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about Jesus’s High Priestly Prayer, which is recounted to us in John 17. Fr. Barouyr discusses the background - that this prayer comes during the Last Supper, the culmination of Jesus’s earthly teachings. He breaks the prayer down into three parts:...
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Episode 115 - The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers - English 🇬🇧
This week, by listener request, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about the Desert Fathers. Fr. Barouyr sets the stage by recounting the modern day history behind the founding of St. Anthony’s Monastery, in the Arizona desert, and the miraculous discover of water running beneath it. He delves…
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Episode 114 - Peter and His Master Pay Their Taxes - Armenian 🇦🇲
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about Jesus’s trip to the Temple with Peter, told in Matthew 17:24-27. Fr. Barouyr explains the context of the time, when the Temple Tax signified duty, belonging, and obedience. Fr. Barouyr then explains further the meaning behind the fish paying His...
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Episode 113 - The Priestly Calling (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about the priestly calling. He talks about how the paths for the priesthood in the Armenian Church, how to discern the calling, and to understand how those who feel the calling fit in. Fr. Barouyr talks about some of the differences between celibate…
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Episode 112 - Anxiety and Prayer (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about finding God in a world full of anxiety. The causes and stressors resulting in anxiety vary from person to person. Many build their lives on foundations that are uncertain, but prayer can help bring Christ to the center of our lives and alleviate...
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Episode 111 - Book Review: The Screwtape Letters (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a book review about The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis. He discusses the unique insights that this book gives us, as it is written from the perspective of demons attempting to tempt humans. He highlights the duality of human nature, both temporary and eternal…
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Episode 110 - Tips for Reading the Holy Bible (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a practical discussion about how to read the Holy Bible. He first guides us on why it is important to read the Bible, before giving us 5 practical tips to guide us into forming a Bible reading practice. Fr. Barouyr breaks this up into 5 steps: start with a plan,...
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Episode 109 - The Armenian Genocide (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a spiritual reflection about the Armenian Genocide. He discusses the painful contrast between Easter and the start of the Armenian Genocide, only 4 days this year. He describes how Antoura was used for the erasure of the Armenian people, language, and religion, as...
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Episode 108 - He is Risen (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for an episode about Christ’s glorious Resurrection. In this episode, he talks to us about how we should prepare ourselves for Easter, like the women who went to His tomb on the third day. He compares our standing at the doors to the church to the women standing at the...
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Bonus Episode - Christ’s Final 24 Hours (ARM 🇦🇲)
Join Fr. Barouyr for a Bible Study about Christ’s final 24 hours. Starting with the Last Supper, Fr. Barouyr walks us through each of the events of that final day, culminating with His death on the cross. Fr. Barouyr explains the process, the people, and how they would have made Our Lord feel in...
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Episode 107 - Reflections on Holy Week (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a special reflection about Holy Week. As we prepare to join Jesus as he enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Fr. Barouyr reflects on the swiftness with which Jesus was arrested, judged, condemned, and crucified. Fr. Barouyr reminds us not to put ritual before God’s...
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Episode 106 - Parable of the Unjust Judge (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about the Parable of the Unjust Judge. Fr. Barouyr talks about what this parable teaches us about both of the main characters in this parable: the judge and the widow. It teaches us how the judge reflects some of our worst characteristics, while the...
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Episode 105 - The Thief and the Judge (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about justice. Through a parable about a thief and a judge, Fr. Barouyr reminds us that Christ is our advocate until the end of our lives, but becomes our judge as our lives come to an end. He reminds us to be agents of God’s mercy, not judges of the...
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Episode 104 - The Book of Lamentations (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about the Book of Lamentations. Fr. Barouyr explores what it has to teach us about loss and grief; and our relationship with God. In addition, Fr. Barouyr talks about how the promise of resurrection can be found in the Book of Lamentations.
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Episode 103 - Sunday of the Expulsion (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for his sermon on the first Sunday of Lent, Sunday of the Expulsion. Based on Adam and Eve’s Expulsion from Eden, this commemoration teaches us 3 important spiritual lessons: to value the blessings that God has placed in our lives, the freedom in Living in God’s word,...
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Episode 102 - Interview With the Honorable Deacon Berj Apkarian (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, Fr. Barouyr is joined by the Honorable Deacon Berj Apkarian, Honorary Consul for the Republic of Armenia to the United States. They discuss a broad range of topics, from the meaning of diaconal service to the role of Sunday service in spiritual life. Deacon Berj discusses the impact of...
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Episode 101 - Jonah and the Whale (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a lecture about the prophet Jonah. Fr. Barouyr talks about how different Jonah and his story are from other prophets in the Old Testament. Most people know that Jonah was swallowed by a whale while trying to escape his call to witness God. But Jonah’s witness is…
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Episode 100 - Love (ENG 🇬🇧)
Join Fr. Barouyr this week for his 100th episode! On this week of St. Valentine’s Day, Fr. Barouyr talks to us about love. Not an earthly love, or a love tied to “happiness,” but the love that is the center of our faith. He reminds us to put Christ first, and that the purpose of love is not to…
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Episode 99 - Christian Virtues (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about the Christian Virtues. Values may change over time, but Christ’s teachings guide us to embrace timeliness and universal virtues. Fr. Barouyr discusses the virtues of humility, brotherly love, meekness, hard work, mercy, moderation, and chastity.…
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Episode 98 - Rejection (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about rejection. Fr. Barouyr talks about Jesus curing the man who was born blind, and how it was rejected by the Pharisees at the time because it happened on the sabbath. Fr. Barouyr reminds us not to reject Christ in our lives due to our own...
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Episode 97 - Our Parents (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr as he talks to us about our parents. What does it mean to honor them? How can we appreciate them? How can we prevent ourselves from falling in the trap of taking them for granted?
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Episode 96 - Home Blessing (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about home blessing. Each year, after the Feasts of Theophany and Easter, the Armenian church has a tradition of blessing homes. The priest will visit the homes of parishioners and bless bread, salt, and water as part of this service. Fr. Barouyr...
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Episode 95 - Christmas Sermon from Detroit (ARM 🇦🇲 - ENG 🇬🇧)
Join Fr. Barouyr from St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Detroit, Michigan, for a special Christmas message. Fr. Barouyr explains the spiritual and symbolic significance of the paten covering the chalice, how it ties in to Christmas, and how it relates to Christ’s ministry. He exhorts us to...
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Episode 94 - Sermon From Detroit (ARM 🇦🇲 - ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, Join Fr. Barouyr from St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Detroit for a special New Year’s sermon anchored in the Parable of the Talents. He emphasizes that like the servants, we have been given divine gifts that we must use for God’s glory. Further, that God is our Lord, and just...
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Episode 93 - Preparing to Welcome Our Lord (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about how we can prepare ourselves to welcome the Birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Father Barouyr reminds us that just like St. Mary prepared herself for 9 months to give birth to our Lord, and the wise men studied the stars for decades to...
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Episode 92 - Prisoners Freed (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about compassion. As revelations about the prison in Sednaya emerge, Fr. Barouyr touches on sin, and how it makes us all prisoners. He also explains that Jesus paid the price to free us from our sins, which requires us to have compassion for all of our...
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Episode 91 - St. Nicholas (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about St. Nicholas. As we prepare for the holiday season, Fr. Barouyr explores St. Nicholas’s generosity, and how we should bring his example to our lives this holiday season. Christ’s unconditional love and generosity demand that we share our…
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Episode 90 - Jesus Brings Jairus’s Daughter Back to Life (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about Jesus bringing Jairus’s daughter back to life. Fr. Barouyr sets the context, explaining Jairus’s importance to Jewish society at the time and therefore the importance of coming personally to Jesus. He tells is to imagine we are Jairus, waiting…
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Episode 89 - Simon the Pharisee (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about Simon the Pharisee’s dinner invitation to Jesus. Fr. Barouyr talks about the woman who anoints Jesus’s feet in the home, and what it teaches us about faith and forgiveness. He also talks about the meanings behind the welcome kiss, the water, and...
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Episode 88 - The Good Samaritan (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a discussion about the parable of the Good Samaritan. He explains the overarching theme of the parable, but also the deeper meanings behind each character in the parable, and the direction of the victim’s travel. Further, he expounds on what this parable means for...
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Episode 87 - Youth and The Armenian Church (Part II) (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, Fr. Barouyr continues his discussion about bringing the youth into the Armenian Church. He highlights three key points: secular society, the parish priest, and communication. Further, he exhorts us all to ask the youth what it is that they need.
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Episode 86 - Youth and The Armenian Church (Part I) (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr as he talks about the youth’s involvement in the church. He discusses how to bring the youth to the church, and why people come to church. Fr. Barouyr talks about the cultural disconnection between the church and modern culture. The youth have a hard time understanding...
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Episode 85 - Lecture Connecting Sis, Antelias, and Bikfaya (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week join Fr. Barouyr for a lecture that he gave to the seminarians at the start of the school year about the history of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia and the seminary. Fr. Barouyr explains how the Catholicosate, founded in Sis, moved to Antelias in the aftermath of the...
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Episode 84 - Philip, Nathanael, and the Holy Translators (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for his sermon about the Holy Translators during the opening Liturgy of the seminary school year. Fr. Barouyr draws a through line from Sts. Philip and Nathanael to the Holy Translators, to the seminary, which was opened in the shadow of the dispersion of the Armenian...
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Episode 83 - The Priestly Calling (ENG 🇬🇧)
Join Fr. Barouyr this week for a conversation about the calling, from Radio Voice of Van. He discusses the difference between calling and vocation, and the difference between a calling to serve the church and our calling to service. He emphasizes Christ’s universal calling to all of us to serve…
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Episode 82 - Death (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr as he talks about death. Fr. Barouyr explores what death means in the Christian context, and how death became a part of this world, when God created humankind in His image, to live in His presence. Further, he discusses the impact of Christ’s resurrection on life, and...
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Episode 81 - Matthew Perry’s Memoir (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr as he discusses Matthew Perry’s memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. Fr. Barouyr discusses the book from the pastoral perspective, understanding how Perry’s experiences can inform one’s spiritual life.
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Episode 80 - Interview With Fr. Karekin Bedourian - Pastor as Life Coach (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a conversation with Fr. Karekin Bedourian, Pastor of Forty Martyrs Armenian Apostolic Church in Orange County, California. Fr. Karekin earned his Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary, and in the process, obtained his certificate in Life Coaching. They talk about...
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Episode 79 - The Way, the Truth, the Life (ARM 🇦🇲)
This week, join Fr. Barouyr for a lecture from a spiritual retreat in Lebanon. He discusses what Jesus means when He tells the Apostles that He is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” at the Last Supper. He explains the context, as Christ is preparing the Apostles for His Crucifixion and...
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Episode 78 - Interview With Fr. Charles Fox of Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, Fr. Barouyr is joined by Fr. Charles Fox, Vice Rector and Dean of Seminarian Formation at Sacred Heart Seminary, in Detroit, Michigan. Their discussion focuses on vocation and formation, how to help young students answer the calling, and how to educate them through the process of...
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Episode 77 - Interview With Fr. Artsakh Badoyan (ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, Fr. Barouyr is joined by Fr. Artsakh Badoyan, the newly appointed pastor of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church, in San Francisco, California. They discuss spiritual life in Las Vegas, Nevada, Fr. Artsakh’s first appointment and place of his ordination. They also talk...
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Episode 76 - Assumption of the Mother of God - Sermon From Bikfaya (ARM 🇦🇲)
Join Fr. Barouyr in Bikfaya, Lebanon this week for a sermon about St. Mary, Mother of God. In recounting Mary’s pregnant visit with Elizabeth, Fr. Barouyr reminds us of Mary’s devotion and trust in God, but also Elizabeth’s love for her sister snd recognition of Mary’s role in the salvation of...
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Episode 75 - Interview With Fr. Stephen E. Salocks, Rector of St. John Seminary (ENG 🇬🇧)
Join Fr. Barouyr this week for a discussion with Fr. Stephen E. Salocks, Rector of St. John Seminary in Boston. They discuss the impact of the virtual classroom on priestly formation and seminary, using service as a teaching tool, and how priestly editions has changed over the past several decades.
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Episode 74 - Sermon From Detroit (ARM 🇦🇲 - ENG 🇬🇧)
This week, listen in to Fr. Barouyr’s sermon from St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in Detroit, Michigan. Fr. Barouyr explains what Jesus means when He says, in the Gospel According to John, that “just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that…
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Join the Very Rev. Fr. Barouyr Shernezian, Dean of the Armenian Theological Seminary of the Catholicosate of the Great See of Cilicia, in weekly conversations in Armenian and English about the Armenian Apostolic Church, church traditions, Christian spirituality, and current events in the Church.
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Join the Very Rev. Fr. Barouyr Shernezian, Dean of the Armenian Theological Seminary of the Catholicosate of the Great See of Cilicia, in weekly conversations in Armenian and English about the Armenian Apostolic Church, church traditions, Christian spirituality, and current events in the Church.
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