by The Exodus Team | Jan 26, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks
Have you ever wondered why we observe the season of Lent before Easter? Put another way, “If Christ has risen, why do we still observe this penitential season?” The history of Lent can help us answer these questions and prepare to make a good Lent this year. Lent is a...
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 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...
by The Exodus Team | Jan 19, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks
1. The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch Jamie Baxter, Founder & CEO I’m reading The Fabric of Reality right now by David Deutsch, and I plan to continue reading it into Lent. The book attempts a theory of everything, to achieve an understanding...
by The Exodus Team | Dec 28, 2023 | Articles, Our Team Picks
When I first did Exodus 90 in 2018, one brother in our fraternity casually mentioned he purchased a new Traeger that week’s field report. The rest of us immediately reminded him of an oft-neglected Exodus 90 discipline: No Unnecessary Purchases. His group-imposed...
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