by The Exodus Team | Feb 19, 2025 | Asceticism, Our Team Picks
We give things up for Lent not simply to do things that are painful. The point is to make room for God. We take a step back from our attachments and distractions in order to focus on what is most important. There are three major categories of things we can sacrifice...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Feb 19, 2025 | Asceticism, Our Team Picks
Lent helps us to do something hard but necessary: to take up our cross to follow Jesus. For some reason, we aren’t generally enthused about carrying crosses even if we hypothetically understand that it’s part of the Christian life. The Christian life, however, calls...
by The Exodus Team | Feb 19, 2025 | Our Team Picks
Lent is a time of repentance, of turning to the Lord to receive his mercy and begin again. Jonah resisted the mission given to him to preach repentance to Israel’s enemy, the city of Nineveh. His resistance led him into the pit of darkness in the depth of the sea from...
by Jamie Baxter | Jan 18, 2025 | Asceticism, Our Team Picks
I turned off my personal social media accounts about ten years ago. Many gifts came to me through this practice, but I quickly learned that everything comes and everything goes. (I read the newspaper to stay up to date as I need to. That one-day delay on the...
by The Exodus Team | Jan 10, 2025 | Exodus 90, Fraternity, Our Team Picks
When considering the pillars of Exodus 90—prayer, asceticism, and fraternity—we might view fraternity as secondary. Yet, Scripture reminds us of its profound importance. St. John writes: “We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the...
by The Exodus Team | Jan 10, 2025 | Exodus 90, Fraternity, Our Team Picks
In a culture obsessed with freedom, the world often defines it as doing whatever we want, whenever we want, without interference. However, the Christian understanding of freedom is radically different. It is a gift with a purpose—one that calls us to live for others....
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