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Updated 10/30/2024 Reinventing Commonweal Local Communities What do you see as the potential value of Commonweal Communities? A four-year experience in the 1980s as a voluntary member of pastoral staff of a parish in Toledo formed my ideal of a small community.  Most of the pastoral staff members were volunteers. We were diverse in our parish responsibilities, professional backgrounds, and spirituality.  Parish responsibilities included social justice minister, youth minister, accountant, maintenance.  Professional backgrounds included a Black woman with a state level award for her public-school teachings who told stories that allowed children to think about values. We had a union shop steward.  A couple who gave Marriage Encounters were our RENEW program leaders. The leader of woman’s organization had lost her daughter to suicide. Several of the staff had backgrounds in the charismatic movement.  We took turns leading opening prayers by sharing our spiritual ...

  VUC  Psalm 90:  1 Laus cantici David . DRA  Psalm 90:  1 The praise of a canticle for David. Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei caeli commorabitur .   2  Dicet Domino: Susceptor meus es tu, et refugium meum; Deus meus, sperabo in eum.   3  Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium, et a verbo aspero.   4  Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis.   5  Scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus: non timebis a timore nocturno;   6  a sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incursu, et daemonio meridiano.   7  Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis; ad te autem non appropinquabit.   8  Verumtamen oculis tuis considerabis, et retributionem peccatorum videbis.   9  Quoniam tu es, Domine, spes mea; Altissimum posuisti refugium tuum.   10  Non accedet ad te malum, et flagellum non appropinquabit tabernacu...

The virtual world created by the phonograph has changed not only music but also our lives as persons and communities. REFERENCES How the Phonograph Changed Music Forever Much like streaming music services today are reshaping our relationship with music, Edison’s invention redefined the entire industry. Clive Thompson is author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better and Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and Wired.  The Walkman’s Invention 40 Years Ago Launched a Cultural Revolution In 1979, the new device forever changed the way we listened to music History of the Record Industry, 1920— 1950s