by The Exodus Team | Feb 27, 2024 | Formation, Our Team Picks, Videos
Can you explain a little more how our fasting makes up for sin? I thought Christ’s death and resurrection was satisfactory. Yes. So notice the implication there. The implication would be as if I were to say Christ’s death and resurrection was not...
by The Exodus Team | Feb 27, 2024 | Formation, Our Team Picks, Videos
https://youtu.be/6YZzjrdyapU Can you explain how the church decided that fish is permitted on Fridays? And when you say maybe other days of abstinence and fasting? Yeah, I really don’t know the history behind that precept. So I’m going to have to defer on...
by The Exodus Team | Feb 27, 2024 | Formation, Our Team Picks, Videos
https://youtu.be/HHKJ6GSPfTY Does fasting actually make our prayers more powerful or efficacious? Yeah, that’s a great question. And the answer would be, yes, it has the potential to do that. And the reason is because James 5:16 says the prayer of a righteous...
by The Exodus Team | Feb 20, 2024 | Formation, Our Team Picks, Videos
https://youtu.be/zJzaW9M9e7c Let’s talk a little bit about Ember Days, right? So here we are in this ember week of Lent. So the Ember Days are Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. They’re days of prayer and fasting in order to make thanksgiving and reparation...
by Jacob Zepp | Feb 8, 2024 | Formation, Lent, Our Team Picks
Why do we wear ashes on Ash Wednesday? While it might appear to be an arbitrary ritual and often mistakenly seen as a display of self-pity, it is a very ancient tradition that is fundamentally meant to lead us into a state of humility. Ashes symbolize humility because...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jan 22, 2024 | Formation, Lent, Our Team Picks
Through the Lenten season, God calls us to enter more deeply into prayer and penance. Even though it lasts for forty days, it’s only too common for us to say afterward, “that went by so fast,” or ask, “where did the time go?” This year can be different if we...
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