The Sacred Commons

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

69 episodes of The Sacred Commons since the first episode, which aired on January 21st, 2019.

  • Episode 57: Good Friday - The Stations of The Cross

    April 2nd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  24 mins 13 secs
    good friday, stations of the cross

    Selected meditations and prayers from St. Alphonsus, Pastor Brian Zahnd, and Fr. Bill Dandreano.

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    Episode 56: Simplicity Is Freedom

    March 18th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  6 mins 51 secs
    consumerism, control, death, detachment, dust, fasting, lent, liturgical year, pilgrimage, remember you are dust, sacred commons, simplicity

    Lenten Reflections. "It is a gift to be simple, it is a gift to be free; it is a gift to come down where we ought to be.”

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    Episode 55: Travel Lightly

    March 17th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  7 mins 54 secs
    control, death, detachment, dust, expectations, fasting, lent, liturgical year, pilgrimage, remeber you are dust, sacred commons

    Lenten Reflections. "He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up"

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    Episode 54: The Muddiness of God

    March 16th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  8 mins 10 secs
    control, death, detachment, dust, fasting, lent, liturgical year, pilgrimage, remeber you are dust, sacred commons

    Lenten Reflections. "When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes"

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    Episode 53: Importance Of The Last Moment

    March 5th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  8 mins 1 sec
    death, dust, eternal life, lent, liturgical year, mortality, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    "Hasten to apply a remedy in time; resolve to give yourself sincerely to God, and begin from this moment a life which, at the hour of death, will be to you a source, not of affliction, but of consolation."

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    Episode 52: The Just Die In A Sweet Peace

    March 4th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  4 mins 33 secs
    death, dust, eternal life, lent, liturgical year, mortality, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    St Teresa desired death so vehemently that she regarded the continuation of life as death: hence she composed the celebrated hymn, I die because I do not die. Such is death to the saints. - St. Alphonsus

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    Episode 51: The Entrance To Life

    February 25th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  5 mins 9 secs
    death, dust, eternal life, lent, liturgical year, mortality, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    “To the just, death is only a passage to eternal life.” - St Anthanasius

  • Episode 50: We Must Detach Ourselves

    February 23rd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  11 mins 29 secs
    death, detachment, dust, lent, liturgical year, mortality, non-attachment, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    St. Alphonsus - We Must Detach Ourselves From The World. "When all worldly affairs are already adjusted, the soul may be entirely occupied in uniting itself to God. At that hour, we should think and speak only of God and of Paradise."

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    Episode 49: The Vanity Of The World

    February 22nd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  10 mins 13 secs
    death, dust, lent, liturgical year, materialism, mortality, possessions, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori, vanity

    St. Alphonsus - The Vanity Of The World. "Seek only the goods which cannot be taken by shipwreck.”

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    Episode 48: The Death Of The Just

    February 19th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  10 mins 57 secs
    death, dust, lent, liturgical year, mortality, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    St. Alphonsus - The Death Of The Just. "To sinners it (death) appears full of terror; but to the saints it is amiable and precious. “It is precious,” says St Bernard, “as the end of labours, the consummation of victory, the gate of life.”

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    Episode 47: St. Alphonsus - Sad State Of The Worldling At Death

    February 17th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  10 mins 6 secs
    death, dust, lent, liturgical year, mortality, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    Consideration VII - Sentiments of a dying Christian, who has been careless about the duties of religion and has thought but little of death.

  • Episode 46: St. Alphonsus - Let Us Labor To Save Our Souls

    February 16th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  6 mins 6 secs
    death, dust, lent, liturgical year, mortality, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    Consideration 1 - Portrait of a man who has recently gone into the other world

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    Episode 45: Why talk about death? St. Alphonsus - The Body In The Grave

    February 15th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  9 mins 19 secs
    death, dust, lent, liturgical year, mortality, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    Consideration 1 - Portrait of a man who has recently gone into the other world

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    St. Alphonsus - Affections and Prayers

    February 12th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  6 mins 55 secs
    death, dust, forgiveness, lent, liturgical year, remeber you are dust, repent, repentance, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    Consideration 1 - Portrait of a man who has recently gone into the other world

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    St. Alphonsus - Preperation for Death

    February 11th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  9 mins 28 secs
    death, dust, lent, liturgical year, remeber you are dust, st. alphonsus, st. alphonsus de liguori

    Consideration 1 - Portrait of a man who has recently gone into the other world

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    Sermon - "The Come Down" (February 22, 2020)

    February 22nd, 2020  |  Season 2  |  27 mins 17 secs
    convergence, convergence christianity, convergent church, epiphany, jesus, lectionary, liturgical year, ohio, sacred commons, the come down, the sacred commons, the sacred commons church, the transfiguration, transfiguration, year a, youngstown

    Last Sunday after Epiphany