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A Sacred Journey

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Liturgical Year Archives

The seasons and holy days of the Liturgical Year within the Christian Church offer a framework for spiritual formation and an invitation to journey with intention year after year. Find posts on the liturgical year below, explore specific seasons on the resources page, and sign up here to receive updates on new posts directly in your inbox.

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E11: Eastertide + Sabbath

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast

For our final conversation during the season of Eastertide, Jenn and I sat down to explore one of my favorite spiritual practices: sabbath.

Because we’ve focused on everyday practices or practices centered on specific holidays or seasons so far on the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast, the practice of sabbath hasn’t come up much in our conversations. However, it’s undoubtedly the practice that has shaped me most over the past few years and continues to do so each time my sabbath day rolls around as well as in the days that follow as the gifts of sabbath find their way into my everyday life.

Learn more about why sabbath is meaningful to me in today’s new Sacred Ordinary Days podcast episode as well as what my practice looks like and, of course, how sabbath connects with the season of Eastertide. Listen/download below or through iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and catch up on past episodes here. And if you like what you hear, would you mind sharing it with a friend and leaving a review? Here’s how.

SHOW NOTES

Sabbath by Dan Allender (part of The Ancient Practices series)
Even God Rested by Kim Thomas
Sabbath as Resistance by Walter Brueggermann

More posts on sabbath from the archives, as well as its pilgrim equivalent, sabbatical »

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Do you practice sabbath? How do you cease and feast?

Let us know in the Sacred Ordinary Days Tribe Facebook group or on social media using the hashtag #sacredordinarydays.

Just one month until our Sacred Ordinary Days retreat! Join us in Waco, TX, over Memorial Day Weekend for feasting, fellowship, spiritual practice, and conversation. Space is limited! Learn more and register »

Our Sacred Ordinary Days retreat begins one month from today! Join us in Waco, TX, over Memorial Day Weekend for feasting, fellowship, spiritual practice, and conversation. Space is limited! Learn more and register »

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E10: Eastertide + Celebration

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S!|E10: Eastertide and Celebration

We’re just a week and a half into Eastertide, which means the celebration has only just begun!

This week on the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast we’re talking about the significance of celebrating Easter as an entire season rather than just a day and exploring what it’s like to celebrate well—both during Eastertide and in everyday life.

Listen/download below or through iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and catch up on past episodes here. And if you like what you hear, would you mind sharing it with a friend and leaving a review? Here’s how.

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Where’s the Easter Egg? (+ an Easter gift for you)

easter-eggs
How was your Easter Sunday?

If you feel like you were just getting started, then I have good news for you: Easter is not just a day, as it’s often marked. Instead, it’s an entire season of feasting and celebration lasting fifty days and ending with the feast of Pentecost.

You’ll find plenty of posts on the full season of Easter (or Eastertide, as it’s also called) right here at A Sacred Journey, including 25 ideas on how to celebrate Life during the Easter season, and we’ll be talking more about the season of Easter as well as celebration and sabbath over the next many weeks in the Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast. Until then, though, I wanted to give you this little gem and insightful prompt that I received recently:

Where’s the Easter egg?

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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E9: Holy Week & Easter Sunday

Holy Week & Easter

Holy Week is here with all its highs and lows, celebration and calamity.

It’s an in invitation to walk instep with Christ in his final days, marking moments with ritual, meeting him in his vulnerability, descending with him into death, darkness, and the uncertainty that it brings, and finally with Easter Sunday awakening to new life.

To me, entering Holy Week is essential to fully experiencing the joys of Easter and the season to come, and in today’s new episode of the Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast we invite you to do just that.

Listen/download below or through iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and catch up on past episodes here. And if you like what you hear, would you mind sharing it with a friend and leaving a review? Here’s how.

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Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E8: Lent & Almsgiving + A Webinar!

Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E8: Lent & Almsgiving
It’s our final episode on the season of Lent and its three main practices, and today on the Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast we’re talking about the practice of almsgiving.

Almsgiving isn’t a term we use often these days—it’s an Old English term that refers to giving food and money to the poor—but it is a practice that’s needed just as much now as it was needed then. In fact, as we mention in today’s episode, it’s kingdom work—not only because it is encouraged by Christ but also because Christ tells us through the Beatitudes that it is through the peacemakers, the merciful, the meek, and the poor in spirit that the kingdom of God is revealed.

In today’s discussion we explore our experiences of giving and, following the framework of the prayers of the people, offer ideas on how you can express generosity in all areas of life in creative and unique ways.

Listen/download below or through iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and catch up on past episodes here. And if you like what you hear, would you mind sharing it on social media and leaving a review? Here’s how.

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