Prayer, fasting and...working out? What is Exodus90?

Jesuitical

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4.8 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

To ring in the Lenten season, “Jesuitical” is talking Exodus 90, a 90-day ascetic spiritual practice for men centered around three pillars: prayer, fasting and fraternity. Terence Sweeney, an assistant teaching professor in the Honors Program and Humanities Department at Villanova University, joins Zac and Ashley to chat about the hugely popular program—why people love it, what it leaves out and what Catholics who don’t participate can learn from it. They discuss: - The absence of communal Lenten practices in today’s church and how Exodus 90 tries to fill that void - Exodus 90’s shortcomings and the dangers of spiritual meritocracy in ascetic practice - What all Catholics can take from Exodus 90 this Lent In this week’s Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley are joined by Christine Lenahan, one of America’s O’Hare Fellows. They discuss controversial depictions of Christ, from the “He Gets Us” Super Bowl ads and a new painting of Jesus that caused quite an uproar in Seville, Spain. What’s on tap? Water. Happy Lent. Jesuitical is going on the road in 2024! We hope you’ll join us. And if you’d like Zac and Ashley to come to your city, send us an email at [email protected] Feb. 28: Crystal City Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA Live interview with Cardinal Wilton Gregory on “A Listening Church in a Divided Nation” from 7-8 p.m. Reception to follow from 8-9 p.m. Please RSVP here. March 18: Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Live interview with American TV Newscaster Carol Costello. Time and venue TBD. Links from the show: - Fasting, praying and working out: What ‘Exodus 90’ gets right—and wrong—about asceticism for men - Controversial artistic depictions of Jesus are nothing new - In defense of the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads - 101 Things To Give Up For Lent - Terence Sweeney's podcast episode, "A Medieval Anti-racist" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at the Loyola University, Chicago is proud to support Jesuitical.
0:08.0	Hank Center events for spring 2024 include the annual Newman Lecture given by political scientist Jason Blakely, who will discuss his conversion experience.
0:18.0	A celebration of the great Catholic jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams in a series of events featuring Deanna Witkowski in the annual Cardinal
0:26.0	Bernardin Common Cause Lecture, featuring Cardinal Christoph Pierre Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.
0:33.0	For the full lineup and information about upcoming events, please visit
0:37.0	W. W. W. W.
0:41.0	C.C.I. D. Hello and
0:55.0	welcome to Jesuiticulae Podcast from American Media for Saints and Sinners.
0:59.0	You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church and our world today.
1:04.6	Often over drinks.
1:05.8	I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
1:08.2	Happy Ash Wednesday.
1:09.6	My Feast Day.
1:10.4	It is your Feast Day.
1:11.4	That's a good point.
1:12.2	I didn't think about that. I was saying happy Ash Wednesday Ash that that's a tongue twister there your Ash still looks pretty good. We just came out and asked
1:19.8	I haven't even looked at the mirror. I'm pretty proud of myself. Yeah, I always feel like there's a trap on Ash Wednesday because you get the
1:26.2	ashes and every single time I cross myself I like right where the ashes is where I put do you touch your forehead
1:33.8	when you cross yourself I noticed that during mass today I was like going up to
1:38.1	do the side of the cross at the end of mass and I was like don't touch and then I was
1:42.0	like was that like sacrilegious like I care more about like not smudging
1:46.9	my ashes than making the sign of the cross yeah I don't I think that means it
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