by Dr. Jared Staudt | Apr 5, 2024 | Asceticism, Easter, Our Team Picks, Our Team Picks
After the penitential season of Lent, it is time to celebrate! Easter is the most important season of the Church’s liturgical year, but we often don’t know how to celebrate. We can change that by gathering as a fraternity, including our family and other...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jan 26, 2024 | Asceticism, Lent, Our Team Picks
Lent is a time of asceticism, a word that points back to the training of athletes in the ancient world. The monks took on a training program for the spiritual life in the desert through regular prayer and fasting in fraternity with other men. Just like preparing for a...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jan 25, 2024 | Asceticism, Lent, Our Team Picks
Every important event requires preparation, and so the Church has a traditional Pre-Lenten period to get ready for the holy season. In the East, we see this through the Meatfare and Cheesefare Sundays that ease into the penance of the Great Fast. In the West, starting...
by Jacob Zepp | Jan 25, 2024 | Asceticism, Lent
It’s that time of year when we should start thinking about what we will do this Lent. The first step to making a good Lent begins beforehand. In both East and West (the Byzantine and Roman Catholic traditions), a preparatory season historically comes before Lent...
by The Exodus Team | Jan 11, 2024 | Asceticism, Exodus 90
Welcome to Day 12 of Exodus 90. Today, as on every Friday of the year, we remember Jesus’s Passion and death for us on the Cross. Honor this observance by fasting and abstaining from meat, uniting yourself to Jesus’s gift of himself in love. In the name of the Father,...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jan 4, 2024 | Asceticism, Exodus 90, Formation
“If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” Asceticism means acts of self-denial. Though it is often underemphasized in our time, throughout Church history we see the importance of asceticism in the...
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