Your invitation to a feminine desert experience
In 2018, I did a version of the “Exodus 90” program mortification paired with “In Conversation with God” daily meditations alongside my husband who participated in a group at our parish. In prayer, I felt a tugging on my heart to create a specifically female program, that addressed women’s spirituality and worldly attachments. I passionately grew to feel that it wasn’t in the spirit of Exodus 90 for women to participate—even if supporting our male loved ones. Men need to be the spiritual leaders of our families and our churches. Yet, we’ve fallen into disorder in our world regarding genders and roles.
When our parish advertised that it would be offering the 2019 Exodus 90 program for men and women; I felt the Holy Spirit really prompting me to go deeper than my thoughts. I felt a call to do something.
After prayer, I began approaching women who may want to journey with me. I reached out to our parish and Exodus90 (Nathaniel), and approval was granted to try out a Magnify 90. With a lot of love through Mary to Jesus, the first Magnify 90 was extremely successful with about forty women excited about growing in virtue and detachment to the world’s offerings of happiness.
I researched feminine genius saints, and poured through church documents including the Catechism of the Catholic Church, papal encyclicals, the Summa Theologica, and scripture. I crafted 90 daily reflections weaving together virtues, scripture, and saints. Each one asks the reader to grow closer to God in prayer and seeks to help her discover how God is asking her to come and follow Him.
Eucharistic Love + wild abandon
Mary Magdalene’s life was so transformed by Christ’s merciful love that she wanted to sit at His feet constantly. How wonderful this would be, yet we are called to live in the world, so we must proceed with wild abandon like John the Baptist. We have to be so radical that the world doesn’t change us—we change it. When we stop caring about what we need, but rather what others need—we will find both. Jesus Christ.
Food and drink? Sure, we need to eat, but it doesn’t need to be as much or as fancy as we may think.
Sleep? Definitely. Just not to the point of holding it up as an idol.
Clothes? Yes—so long as we stay humble.
Media? That’s something to discern considering your vocation and God’s will.
We can’t all go live in the desert forever, but perhaps a 90 day journey to grow closer to God and further from the world is exactly what we need to become the saints He created us to be.
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“Whether she is a mother in the home, or occupies a place in the limelight of public life, or lives behind quiet cloister walls, she must be a handmaid of the Lord everywhere.... Were each woman an image of the Mother of God, a Spouse of Christ, an apostle of the divine Heart, then would each fulfill her feminine vocation no matter what conditions she lived in and what worldly activity absorbed her life. ”