Do you feel ready to take on a transformative challenge that strengthens your faith, builds discipline, and fosters brotherhood within our Parish? We start January 20th, 2025!

To sign up, please reach out to Fr. Bill for more information. 

Learn More:
Scan the QR code below the additional details about the program. This will provide a direct link to the Exodus 90 website where you can read more about the program and resources to prepare for this life-changing journey. 

Prayer

• Read Exodus Reading & Reflection
• Make a Holy Hour each Day
• Make a Morning Offering
• Make a Nightly Examen
• Celebrate the Lord’s Day on Sundays

Why?

Prayer is conversation with God.

The time you spend in prayer during Exodus 90 is the most important part of the journey. Your daily Scripture passage and reflection from Exodus have been crafted to help you start your conversation with the Lord each day. 

During Exodus 90, we will strive for an hour of daily prayer, and within that hour, we encourage you to spend at least twenty minutes in silent prayer, listening and sharing openly with the Lord. Amid the responsibilities of your life and vocation, an hour of prayer may not be possible each day. Do not become discouraged, feel shame, or give up on prayer because you cannot hit an hour. Do the best you can with the time that you have. If you need to start small with a few minutes and build up your time over the first few weeks, we encourage you to do so. From experience, most men find it easier to pray early in the morning or late at night, and it is most likely to happen if we schedule our prayer time and make it a priority in our plan of life each day.

The more you practice prayer, the more familiar it will become for you and the more confidence you will gain, like so many other things in our lives. But we must persevere no matter the challenges we face because, apart from a life of prayer, we quickly get lost and forget who we are, like a lost child without his mother and father. And how can we possibly lead our families and local communities if we are not led first by the Lord?

Asceticism

• Get a Full Night’s Sleep (8 hours is recommended)
• Take Cold Showers
• Exercise 3x per Week
• Avoid Unnecessary Smartphone Use
• Avoid Unnecessary Computer Use
• Give Up Video Games
• Give Up TV
• Give Up Alcohol
• No Soda or Sweet Drinks
• No Snacking between Meals
• No Desserts or Sweets
• Listen only to Music that Lifts the Soul to God
• No Unnecessary Purchases
• Fast on Wednesdays & Fridays (eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals)
• No Meat on Wednesdays & Fridays

Why?

Asceticism means acts of self-denial. Though it is often underemphasized in our time, throughout Church history we see the importance of asceticism in the teachings and lives of the saints, our fathers in the faith.

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. And these ninety days are just the beginning of a new, more free way of life.

Acts of asceticism break us down in order to open us up to God. They should not lead to a puffed-up chest so much as a bowed-down head in prayer. Through the ascetic way, we are humbled. By denying ourselves, we learn to depend upon God for everything and to ask our brothers for prayerful accountability, support, and encouragement.

Fraternity

• Daily Anchor Check-in (one of the men in your fraternity)
• Weekly Fraternity Meeting

Why?

So many men are isolated and alone today, and in that place we are susceptible to the whims, temptations, and empty show of the devil.

Many men have buddies with whom they can watch sports and drink beer, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But we also need to have brothers who know who we are, what we are going through, and to whom we can be accountable.

During Exodus 90, you will meet once a week. One of the men in your fraternity will be your anchor, and you will check-in with him each day. Prioritizing Christian brotherhood, especially for married men in the hustle of work and family life, is challenging. But that time is essential.

Exodus fraternities are one of the few places in the entire world where men can be open and honest with each other. It’s not about what you know, what you have accomplished, or how you’ve got it all together. Exodus fraternities are meant to be the absolute opposite of this worldly perspective of masculinity, a place to be real about the struggles we all experience.