33-Day Rosary Challenge

Prayer is the heart of the Exodus experience because without God, we cannot find true freedom and happiness. Here are a few principles to guide our prayer during the Month of the Rosary. First, embrace silence in God’s presence as a source of stillness, peace, and attentiveness. It’s hard at first to settle the mind and heart, but with patience and practice, silent prayer becomes a source of peace and strength. Second, embrace simplicity. Rather than filling prayer with busy activity, take your time with spiritual reading and emphasize relating to God through your prayer. More than activity, prayer can become a time of intimacy with God. Finally, remain consistent in prayer each day as much as possible. As prayer becomes a habit, we are able to draw upon the inner stability it offers in all our actions, allowing God to shape our relationships, work, and leisure.

Throughout October, we look to Mary as an example of prayer. Her “yes” to God’s invitation, delivered to her through the Archangel Gabriel, echoes throughout all of time as a model for all her children. Our own prayer joins this “yes” and draws us close to those who surround God’s heavenly throne to give him glory and honor. In the Book of Revelation, angels surround God’s throne, singing “holy, holy, holy,” and Our Lady later appears clothed in the sun in chapter 12. In fact, it’s the revelation of this woman with child that leads to the rebellion of the dragon, who takes down a third of the stars of heaven with him. This explains the origin of the enmity between the same serpent towards the woman in the Garden, whom he beguiles, and the importance of the New Eve, who crushes his head by giving birth to the Savior.

It is truly possible for us to live our daily lives in communion with the Virgin Mary and God’s holy angels and saints in heaven. The Desert Fathers related the story of a doctor in Alexandria in Egypt, who reached the height of perfection through prayer and his daily work, just like St. Anthony, one of the greatest saints in the history of the Church. The saying goes like this: “It was revealed to Abba Antony in his desert that there was one who was his equal in the city. He was a doctor by profession and whatever he had beyond his needs he gave to the poor, and every day he sang the Sanctus with the angels.” There is so much more than meets the eye in our daily lives, and, as we grow in prayer, we become more aware of God’s presence and the deeper meaning and purpose of everything we do. May our prayer during the Month of the Rosary teach us to rely on the spiritual weapons the Lord has given us to fight our daily battles, beginning with the holy rosary.

33-Day Rosary Challenge Disciplines

1. Listen to Daily Scripture & Reflection

2. Celebrate the Lord’s Day

3. Cold Shower Fridays

4. Pray a Fraternity Rosary (1x per week)

5. Regular Fraternity Meeting

6. No Meat Fridays

7. Pray for Deliverance for you Family & Nation

8. Pray a Daily Rosary

9. 20 Minutes of Silent Prayer

🚀  After Our October Challenge

November is a month traditionally set aside to remember and pray for the dead. Death is a reality that generates a wide variety of reactions: fear, anxiety, obsession, or even complete disregard. How should a Christian man see and think of death, and how does this differ from the way our culture sees it? What duty do we have towards the dead?

The Church offers us a triduum, three days of holy observance, to begin the month of the dead and rightly orient ourselves to death. While you will not often hear its name today, Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day together make up the Triduum of Allhallowtide. On Halloween, we do penance in preparation for the great feast. On All Saints Day, a Holy Day of Obligation, we celebrate all those myriad saints in heaven, particularly those who have not received official canonization, and pray for their intercession. On All Souls Day, we pray for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory as they undergo purification to receive the grace of heaven . Together, the Triduum of Allhallowtide orients us to a Christian vision of death–the hope of “the life of the world to come.” From November 1st to the 8th, a period known as the All Hallows Octave, the Church offers a special set of indulgences that can be claimed for the dead:

During the octave, the faithful can obtain one plenary indulgence each day for a departed soul by visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead.

On All Souls Day in particular, another plenary indulgence can be obtained by visiting a church and praying an Our Father and the Creed.

Additionally, a partial indulgence for a departed soul can be claimed on any day by reciting the Office of the Dead. In honor of this observance, we will pray together the Office of the Dead each day of the octave.

Every day, we pray for God’s blessing on all Exodus Men and their families. This prayer rightfully extends not only to the living but also to all those Exodus men who have died. In the last year, we have collected the names of more than 40 Exodus men who have gone before us, and entered them into our Book of the Dead so that we can remember and pray for our brothers in perpetuity. The Book of the Dead will be available on the app’s Home Tab throughout the month of November. If you know of any Exodus Man who has died, please send us his name, date of death, and a link to his obituary at support@exodus90.com.

The dead should not be forgotten. There is something deeply human and spiritual about maintaining our communion, in prayer, with those who have died. It is only through God that we can maintain this connection, as all who are in his grace live in him. If we live in relationship with God, we remain united with all others, living and deceased, who likewise abide in him. Throughout the Body of Christ, we express charity in our prayer for one another. Together, let us then remember, grieve, and express our hope in the Lord’s mercy as we strive to live a life worthy of our calling as sons of God, preparing to encounter him at the hour of our death.

👉  Lastly:

Our October Challenge will be challenging, but do not be afraid. There’s no such thing as a perfect journey.

More than 100,000 Exodus men have come before you. And tens of thousands of men from all over the world are on the road right now, praying and sacrificing for you too.

May we, united together in prayer and sacrifice, and after the pattern of Jesus Christ and our Fathers in the Faith, become the renewal that we seek in the Church and in the world.