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The Sacred Commons
by The Sacred Commons
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. https://thesacredcommons.com
Episodes
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Episode 73: Advent 2 - Repent for The Kingdom
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, "juxtaposed" or "closely linked." Rather, there is only one human history, irreversibly assumed by Christ, the Lord of history. His redemptive work embraces all the dimensions of existence and brings them to their fullness. The history of...
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Episode 71: Goodness & The Cross
Goodness incarnate was crucified. Loving kindness must somehow lead us to a cruciform, self-giving, life that takes upon itself risk for the sake of the other. "Love, if it is genuine, vastly exceeds feelings." - Kari Jo Verhulst
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Episode 70: "Midwifery"
Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and German Jew who fled the Nazi regime once wrote, “Obedience might very well cause the end of human history.”
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Episode 69: "Sink or Swim"
The sinking of humanity has come, is coming, and will always come by way of fear. Fear is the sinking of our relationships and society, it creates pits and storms (broken modalities of relationship) that we inevitably will sink into. Love and deep attention to our shared humanity will lift us out.
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Episode 64: 5th Sunday of Easter - "A Detached Love"
“Where I am going you can not come...Love one another” “When Christ said to his disciples, ‘Love one another,’ he was not prescribing attachment for them… he commanded them to transform these bonds into friendship.” - Simone Weil
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Episode 56: Simplicity Is Freedom
The Sacred Commons Church Lenten Readings.
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Episode 55: Travel Lightly
The Sacred Commons Church Lenten Readings.
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Episode 54: The Muddiness of God
The Sacred Commons Church Lenten Readings.
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Episode 53: Importance Of The Last Moment
The Sacred Commons Church Lenten Readings.
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Episode 52: The Just Die In A Sweet Peace
St. Alphonsus Lenten Readings.
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Episode 51: The Entrance To Life
Sacred Commons Lenten Readings.
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Episode 50: We Must Detach Ourselves
Sacred Commons Lenten Readings.
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Episode 49: The Vanity Of The World
Sacred Commons Lenten Readings.
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Episode 48: The Death Of The Just
Sacred Commons Lenten Readings.
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Episode 47: St. Alphonsus - Sad State Of The Worldling At Death
Sacred Commons Lenten Readings.
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Episode 46: St. Alphonsus - Let Us Labor To Save Our Souls
The Lenten readings of the Sacred Commons.
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Episode 45: Why talk about death? St. Alphonsus - The Body In The Grave
The Lenten readings of the Sacred Commons.
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St. Alphonsus - Affections and Prayers
Lenten readings.
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St. Alphonsus - Preperation for Death
Lenten readings
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Sermon - "The Come Down" (February 22, 2020)
Exodus 24:12-18 Psalm 2 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew 17:1-9
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Lectionary Musings - The Invisible Community
Matt 5:13-20 Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a...
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Sermon - "The Visible Community" (February 8, 2020)
Isaiah 58:1-9a, [9b-12] 1 Corinthians 2:1-12, [13-16] Matthew 5:13-20 Psalm 112:1-9, (10)**
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Lectionary Musings - The Maladjusted Life
Matt 5:1-12 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.…
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Sermon - "Will Christians Become Disciples" (January 18, 2020)
Isaiah 49:1-7 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 John 1:29-42 Psalm 40:1-12
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Sermon - "God With Us" (January, 4 2020)
Luke 2:41-52 The parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem every year for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know...
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Sermon - "Dear Silas" (November 9, 2019)
Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 "Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise…
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Sermon - "Which Jesus" (August 17, 2019)
Luke 12:49-56 Jesus said, "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From...
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Sermon - "When You Pray, Say" (July 27, 2019)
Luke 11:1-13 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And...
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Sermon - "Everybody At The Feet" (July 20, 2019)
Luke 10:38-42 As Jesus and his disciples went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came…
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Sermon - "Please Won't You Be" (July 13, 2019)
Luke 10:25-37 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all…
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Sermon - "The $42 Tomato" (July 6, 2019)
** Luke 10:1-11, 16-20** The Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his...
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Sermon - "Lose It All" (June 29, 2019)
Luke 9:51-62 When the days drew near for Jesus to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him; but they did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. When his...
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Sermon - "Pentecostal" (June 8, 2019)
Acts 2:1-21 When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested…
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Sermon - "We're Still Here" (June 1, 2019)
Acts 16:16-34 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were…
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Sermon - "Outside The Gate" (May 25, 2019)
Acts 16:9-15 During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to…
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Sermon - "On God's Own Terms" (May 18, 2019)
Acts 11:10-18 Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, saying, "Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?" Then Peter began to explain…
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Sermon - "Nothing Lost" (May 11, 2019)
Acts 9:36-43 Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who…
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Sermon - "Healed By Blindness" (May 4, 2019)
Acts 9:1-6, (7-20) Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he was…
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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. https://thesacredcommons.com
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