by Dr. Jared Staudt | Mar 18, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks, Prayer
Enter into Passiontide with Daily Meditations We need to end Lent strong! The forty days of Lent enter into Jesus’s forty days of fasting in the desert. After his Baptism, the Spirit drove him into the wilderness to fast, pray, and do battle with the enemy. Lent...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Mar 14, 2024 | Formation, Lent, Our Team Picks
In week four of Lent, Exodus’s fraternity challenge is to practice almsgiving. This is, of course, a central practice of the Lenten season and one implied by the disciplines of Exodus but which we can make more explicit. Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, has explained in his...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Mar 7, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks
Have you been following the Exodus story to freedom? This year, we pivoted to the Book of Joshua for Lent to point toward the spiritual battle we face during this holy season. Here is our daily reflection for March 7th, reflecting on Joshua 10:16-28. “The...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Feb 20, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks, Prayer
Though often forgotten today, the Ember Days are among the oldest traditions of the Church’s calendar. The Romans marked the beginning of new seasons with particular times of prayer, which were embraced by the early Christians of Rome. The Ember Days focus on...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Feb 15, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks, Prayer
Lent invites us to conversion, turning to God in prayer while turning away from our attachments. But, if we turn to God, we must also reach out to others in charity, which is why almsgiving is essential to Lent. In addition to giving charitable alms, we can also...
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