by The Exodus Team | 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
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, 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...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Dec 26, 2023 | Asceticism, Feast Days, Formation
Every so often, Exodus 90 begins during the Christmas Season. 2024 happens to be one of those years. Some people might wonder how we can begin a spiritual exercise with so much asceticism on a solemn feast day, the octave day of Christmas honoring Mary the Mother of...
by The Exodus Team | Dec 12, 2023 | Articles, Asceticism, liturgical questions
The Ember days are occasions to thank God for the blessings received during the previous season, pray for those ordained, and renew ourselves spiritually. They are days of fasting and abstinence. These fasts were initially called “quatuor tempora” (the four times)....
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