( 883759 )Exodus90 : 90 jours de prières et d'ascétisme. par FilsDeMarie (2020-01-02 18:40:42)
Le programme Exodus 90 est destiné aux hommes souhaitant retourner et/ou améliorer de façon radicale leur relation avec Jésus tout en se purifiant de ses péchés et de ses mauvais penchants.
Tel est le programme :
Our story began in 2013 with a priest who was leading a group of young men entering the seminary at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. Having been raised in a society that promotes and even glorifies all sorts of vices and bad habits, many of these seminarians were bound by addictions to video games, Netflix, alcohol, and, yes, even pornography.
Exodus provides a path to freedom through prayer, asceticism, and fraternity. The upcoming Lent Exodus starts January 13th, 2020 and ends on Easter Sunday. Join over 20,000 men who have experienced the Exodus.
1) Prayers :
Committing time each day to prayer is essential to a fruitful Exodus. Setting aside 20-60 minutes of your day:
Frees you from other distractions so you can focus on the Lord.
Lays a foundation for your day, offering it up in prayer.
Is an opportunity to read the daily Scripture from the Book of Exodus and allow yourself to be guided by the meditations and action items provided daily.
Is the perfect time to pray the Rosary, asking for Mary's help and protection. This daily holy "hour" should take place with the fraternity when possible, but can also be done alone. This pillar of Exodus 90 will provide you the strength to enter more deeply into the practices of asceticism and the brotherhood of the fraternity.
2) Asceticism :
Take short, cold showers
Practice regular, intense exercise
Get a full night’s sleep (at least seven hours is recommended)
Abstain from alcohol
Abstain from desserts and sweets
Abstain from eating between meals
Abstain from soda or sweet drinks (white milk and unsweetened tea are permissible)
Abstain from television, movies, or televised sports
Abstain from video games
Abstain from nonessential material purchases
Only listen to music that lifts the soul to God
Only use the computer for work, school, or essential tasks (e.g., paying bills)
Only use mobile devices for essential communications; nonessential texting, app, and internet use is prohibited
Practice fasting days: Wednesdays and Fridays (abstain from meat and only eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal
3) Fraternity :
The problem with the world is that men do not spend enough time with other men. Jesus, himself, saw the value of fraternity when he took his apostles out into the desert to keep vigil while sitting under the stars and before a glowing fire. Imagine all that was discussed, taught, and revealed on such an occasion!
Exodus would simply not work without the structure of brotherhood. Every participant in the Exodus program has emphatically confirmed that the fraternal bonds that kept the men together and moving forward for 90 days was the key to his success. Fraternity, like prayer, cannot be compromised. Men develop sexual addiction in the darkness of loneliness: for years believing that, he alone, struggles miserably – like a slave to a wicked master. Surprised though he is, he finds his brothers suffer a shared plight. Together, as brothers united in “dour combat,” they can help one another overcome sexual addiction or any other obstacle. Thus, man makes man.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church recognizes this phenomenon. “The virtue of chastity blossoms in friendship. It shows the disciple how to follow and imitate him [Jesus] who has chosen us as his friends, who has given himself totally to us and allows us to participate in his divine estate…” Jesus goes so far as to demonstrate the uncompromising requirement of friendship in spiritual progress. We see this in an unlikely place in the Gospel of St. Mark. As Jesus left Jerusalem on his way to Golgotha during his passion, he required the assistance of a certain “passer-by” named Simon of Cyrene. Simon was “coming in from the country” and, shoulder to shoulder with Christ, was pressed to carry the cross. Thus we see that even Jesus, when nearly overcome by his circumstances, had a brother in which to turn. Men must re-learn what Jesus taught… that when a man picks up his cross, he, like Jesus, nearly always needs the help of a devoted brother.
Perhaps this is a truth mostly lost to modern men, but it has not always been so. St. Ignatius of Loyola wrote to a disciple, “But I also hope that in your brotherhood you will find a great mutual help. In it you will find a brother ready to wait upon a fallen companion, to sustain the wavering, to stimulate the laggard by word and example, so that, ʽministering the same [grace] one to another’ (1 Peter 4:10), you prepare yourselves to receive fresh graces from the Father, since wherever two or three are gathered together to ask a favor it will be granted, as Truth Itself has promised.”
Bon Courage !!!!!
( 883781 )Courtes douches froides… par Marquandier (2020-01-02 22:34:49)