How about a spiritual exercise helping you be more ready & open to evangelize?

Over the last few years, when I talk with someone who has undertaken a spiritual exercise on one of the apps or programs available, today they ask for a very specific thing next:

When will there be a program that helps us evangelize – to have conversations with others about our faith and extend them an invitation to join us?

A background & a pause

After leaving my year and a half stint at Exodus, I continued to wrestle with this question. I took it to my spiritual directors multiple times. I wrestled with a perceived call to help provide the answer to that question.

For a time, I worked on it slowly. Then I felt a very distinct direction to stop. It wasn’t time – not that I wasn’t supposed to do it – but it wasn’t the time.

Then I underwent a darker period, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, for nearly a year.

But late this Spring, the calling to pursue this became more clear, and it felt as though it were time.

Forming something new – ready to evangelize

While undertaking the crafting and writing of this thing – now called Emmaus 15 – I also started the process of forming a company to operate it. I also enlisted a couple of old friends & collaborators to serve on the board. We formed a corporation, set to work, and were granted 501(c)(3) status to operate as a non-profit entity.

And now it’s almost time for it to come alive.

Emmaus Disciples is a non-profit organization seeking to help Catholics deepen their faith and share it with others.

We will be launching this fall with Emmaus 15: An Exercise of Emmaus Disciples. It is a 15-week journey into a deeper relationship with Jesus and an understanding of how to invite others into a relationship with Him.

A spiritual exercise helping you be ready & open to evangelize.

Why 15 weeks? It has allowed for a good pattern and structure for the journey. Plus, the journey from Jerusalem to Emmaus was about 7 1/2 miles, and it was about 7 1/2 miles back.

So the 15 mile journey to Emmaus and back becomes a 15 week journey of prayer, reflection, and action for today’s faithful.

Be a part of this spiritual exercise

Sign up for more information as it becomes available.
Be on the list to be one of the first people to try Emmaus 15.

Share this with others who might be interested. It’s designed for each person to undertake the journey with another person (just as the two disciples did in the Gospel).

The initial soft launch (online only) will be on September 25… 57 days from today. We’re discussing also possibly making the exercise available next year in a book form with space for handwritten reflection and journaling.

Why September 25? It’s the Memorial of Saint Cleopas, the one disciple out of the two who made the journey to Emmaus with Jesus who is named in the Gospels.

Or make a tax-deductible donation to help us prepare to launch and spread the word about our work.

I’m grateful to have been gifted continued clarity on this journey. But there are also moments of knowing intensely that Satan does not want this to come to life.

If nothing else, please pray as we continue the journey of bringing Emmaus 15 & Emmaus Disciples to life.

Saint Cleopas, pray for us!