After his baptism, Jesus spent 40 days in the desert fasting, praying and resisting the temptations of Satan.
The Hebrews spent 40 years there after leaving Egypt.
Almost enough annuities to validate a full pension (before the reform).
Between the two, an American priest imagined an ascetic journey to sanctify his seminarians: 90 days of effort and renunciation.
A little more
badass
than Christ, but a little less punchy than Moses.
Either way, it sucks.
In a few years, "Exodus 90" has crossed the Atlantic and seduced a growing number of Catholic men anxious to strengthen their Lenten efforts, against the current of a desire to bring penance and fasting only to purely spiritual endeavors.
Finally and above all, the supreme test of this Koh Lanta of faith: the cold shower.
The Exodus proposal is therefore to Lent what the Ironman is to triathlon.
Stronger, harder, further.
The formula is based on three pillars: asceticism, prayer and fraternity.
But it's the first of the three that gets the most attention...
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