Exodus 90
You’ll learn to pray every day, allowing you to be more honest with God. Not sure how? Don’t sweat it, we’ll show you.
Enthronement of the Sacred Heart (now)
Summer–that time of vacation, cookouts, and the pool–is also a time to celebrate our fathers and the way Pentecost shapes the life of the Church. The great feasts of June – Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart, the Birth of John the Baptist, and St. Peters and Paul – show how the Body of Christ in the world is sustained from within by the Eucharist and is prepared to go out into the world to witness to Christ.
Summer does not have to be a downtime in faith. In fact, with the gift of leisure, we can enter more freely into the treasures of the Church. In our June exercise, we seek to grow in our devotion to the gift of Christ’s Body and Blood in the Most Holy Eucharist and through it to enter more deeply into the love of Jesus’s Sacred Heart. Just as our bodies become tabernacles of the Lord’s presence when we receive Communion, so our families can become places where Jesus dwells if we enthrone him in our homes. The beginning of June gives us time to pray and meditate on the love of Jesus’s heart in order to make a formal enthronement of the image of the Sacred Heart in our home on June 7th, the feast of the Sacred Heart.
Disciplines:
- Read the daily reflection
- 20 Minutes of Silent Prayer
- Examine your Day
- Regular Fraternity Meeting
- Cold Shower Fridays
- No Meat Fridays
- Make one Holy Hour each week
- Celebrate the Lord’s Day
Questions or want to know more, contact Chuck Gait cfgait@gmail.com or Don Tsusaki designs@zitherist.com.
St. Michael's Lent (on deck, August 15, 2024)
An Ancient Church practice. Revived.
During his life, St. Francis of Assisi observed a 40-day, Lent-like period of prayer, asceticism, and fraternity in preparation for the Feast of St Michael the Archangel.
In fact, it was in 1224 during St. Michael’s Lent when Francis received the great grace of the Stigmata — the Five Wounds of Christ.
While not well known in the Church today, this ancient spiritual exercise is a powerful expression of the Faith – and desperately needed in our culture today.
St. Michael’s Lent is 40 days of prayer, asceticism, and fraternity.
Exodus 90 (Starting January 2025)
90 days to freedom
Are you tired of returning to the same ‘modern Pharaohs’ over and over again — overconsumption of social media, numbing your problems with alcohol, pornography, or binge-watching TV? Our culture today has no shortage of Pharaohs and idols that hold us back from true unity with God. Exodus 90 offers you a way out. You can start today. You’ll learn to pray every day during Exodus 90, allowing you to be more honest with God. Not sure how? Don’t sweat it, we’ll show you. Start 2025 with an uncommon experience that leads to a year of finding deeper peace and true unity with God.
What is Exodus 90?
With Exodus 90, you’ll return to an ancient tradition of asceticism (an ancient word for “acts of self-denial”). It’s a 90-day journey through the Book of Exodus, diving deeper into understanding the similarities we share with the ancient Israelites and finding our path to freedom from our own ‘modern Pharaohs’ holding us back from true unity with God. Guys, we were made for more than this. If you desire freedom from these ‘modern Pharaohs’ — Freedom to be a better husband, a better father, and a better man for others — check out Exodus 90.
For 90 days, we focus on three core pillars: prayer, asceticism, and fraternity — a model witnessed to us centuries ago by the desert fathers in the early Church.
With our fraternity, some of the things you’ll commit to are:
- One Holy Hour of daily silent prayer; reading from Scripture and reflections on the Exodus app
- Fast and Abstain from Meat on Wednesdays and Fridays
- Give up Video Games
- Avoid Unnecessary Smartphone Use
- Get 7+ Hours of Sleep
- Give up Alcohol
- Cold Showers (you can do it!)
- Give up TV, movies, or televised sports
- Avoid Unnecessary Computer Use
- Meet with a fraternity of men (ideal size 5-7 men) weekly
- No Snacking between Meals
- Check in with your Anchor (one chosen fraternity brother) daily
- Make a Nightly Examen
- Exercise 3x per Week
- Celebrate the Lord's Day
Yes, sometimes we fast. But, other times, we feast!
Asceticism is about saying “no” to lesser things so that we are able to say “yes” when God asks greater things from us. Though we should strive to reject evil in every instance, we should also abstain from good things for periods of time so that we can remain focused on what matters most in our lives.
Asceticism is not about proving something to yourself, showing that you are strong enough to others, or earning God’s grace. Exodus 90 is not a spiritual marathon or another secular men’s challenge. Exodus 90 is a spiritual exercise crafted for you to become uncommonly free for the love that God has called you to.
Why Join?
Saint Dominic once said, “A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them or be ruled by them.” If we’re ruled by our ‘modern Pharaohs,’ how can we truly be free to become the men God made us to be? Exodus 90 gives you the tools to take control of your life and find deeper unity with God — and a brotherhood of men on the same path.
Our Pastor - Father DeAscanis - offers more insights on the benefits of Exodus 90.
Numerous men from St. Louis and St. Francis pastorate have participated in multiple Exodus 90 sessions over the past several years. All of these men had their lives transformed for the better. Many continue to invest in the relationships they formed during that time by continuing to meet weekly as a fraternity on Monday evenings.
Questions or want to know more about Exodus 90, contact Chuck Gait cfgait@gmail.com or Don Tsusaki designs@zitherist.com.
