The Sacred Commons
An Ancient-Future church of Youngstown, Ohio
About the show
A podcast from an Ancient-Future church in the city of Youngstown made up of ordinary radicals seeking to (re)discover the beauty in the accumulated wisdom of the Body of Christ so that we may do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God.
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Episodes
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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
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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.
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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
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Lectionary Musings - The Invisible Community
February 10th, 2020 | Season 2 | 25 mins 24 secs
convergence, convergence christianity, convergent church, jesus, lectionary, lectionary musing, liturgical year, ohio, sacred commons, salt and light, the invisible community, the sacred commons, the sacred commons church, the sermon on the mount, year a, youngstown
The Sacred Commons: a lectionary musing on being salt & light and a visible community.
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Sermon - "The Visible Community" (February 8, 2020)
February 8th, 2020 | Season 2 | 27 mins 27 secs
convergence, convergence christianity, convergent church, epiphany, jesus, lectionary, liturgical year, ohio, sacred commons, salt and light, sermon on the mount, the sacred commons, the sacred commons church, the visible community, year a, youngstown
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany