Dudes,
You are invited to F.I.A.T., a Catholic Married Men’s group providing Fellowship In Athletics and Testosterone. This is a group for guys to get together once every couple of weeks to hang out, pray, eat meat, fast, play sports, adore the Blessed Sacrament, do cool stuff, and sacrifice for our wives. You have been invited to F.I.A.T. because your wife has already been invited to Fiat, the married women’s group, and because I think you’re cool.
Fellowship
As working, married men we all share similar joys and struggles. F.I.A.T. is a good place to be in a good wholesome environment doing manly stuff, to share our insights into how to live as better men, husbands and fathers, and to offer prayer cover for the daily spiritual battles that we face. We’ll encourage each other through difficult times, offer practical advice, be examples to each other, and pray for each other. If you’re interested, we can also study Church teaching and spirituality together in order to grow in holiness and wisdom.
You are invited to F.I.A.T., a Catholic Married Men’s group providing Fellowship In Athletics and Testosterone. This is a group for guys to get together once every couple of weeks to hang out, pray, eat meat, fast, play sports, adore the Blessed Sacrament, do cool stuff, and sacrifice for our wives. You have been invited to F.I.A.T. because your wife has already been invited to Fiat, the married women’s group, and because I think you’re cool.
Fellowship
As working, married men we all share similar joys and struggles. F.I.A.T. is a good place to be in a good wholesome environment doing manly stuff, to share our insights into how to live as better men, husbands and fathers, and to offer prayer cover for the daily spiritual battles that we face. We’ll encourage each other through difficult times, offer practical advice, be examples to each other, and pray for each other. If you’re interested, we can also study Church teaching and spirituality together in order to grow in holiness and wisdom.
Athletics
We’ll get together to do cool guy stuff, which may or may not be limited to the following: Hiking, biking, fishing, shooting, foosball, soccer, eating meat, throwing balls, challenging each other to eat gross stuff, jumping off high things, butting heads, brewing beer, making jokes, building things, etc…
We’ll get together to do cool guy stuff, which may or may not be limited to the following: Hiking, biking, fishing, shooting, foosball, soccer, eating meat, throwing balls, challenging each other to eat gross stuff, jumping off high things, butting heads, brewing beer, making jokes, building things, etc…
Testosterone
Pope John Paul II tells us that the body speaks a language, a physical language that communicates the spiritual. Being a man means doing cool, brave, difficult physical and emotional things, but also heroic and noble spiritual things. That’s why fasting, penance, and sacrifice will be a major part of this group. So while we may gather sometime to barbeque red meat, drink beer, and eat whipped cream from the can, we also may have some meetings where we skip a meal, or only drink water. Also, this goes beyond our F.I.A.T. meetings. As Catholic men, we have the responsibility to follow Christ and carry our cross every day. So this spirit of sacrifice and atonement should pervade our lives. One way that we can live our call is through http://www.e5men.org/. You can read up on it and see if you want to join. The short of it is, as an E5 Man, you’ll fast on bread and water once a month for your wife. Several of us are already E5 Men. Note that this Wednesday, August 6th, is the first Wednesday of the month, the day on which all E5 men fast.
Pope John Paul II tells us that the body speaks a language, a physical language that communicates the spiritual. Being a man means doing cool, brave, difficult physical and emotional things, but also heroic and noble spiritual things. That’s why fasting, penance, and sacrifice will be a major part of this group. So while we may gather sometime to barbeque red meat, drink beer, and eat whipped cream from the can, we also may have some meetings where we skip a meal, or only drink water. Also, this goes beyond our F.I.A.T. meetings. As Catholic men, we have the responsibility to follow Christ and carry our cross every day. So this spirit of sacrifice and atonement should pervade our lives. One way that we can live our call is through http://www.e5men.org/. You can read up on it and see if you want to join. The short of it is, as an E5 Man, you’ll fast on bread and water once a month for your wife. Several of us are already E5 Men. Note that this Wednesday, August 6th, is the first Wednesday of the month, the day on which all E5 men fast.
Let me know:
· Are you’re interested in joining?
· How frequently could you meet (it would be weekday evenings or weekends, and since it’s time away from our wives, it probably won’t be more often than once every 2 weeks)?
· What activities could we do?
· Anyone else who would fit in this group that you’d like to invite?
I propose the first official F.I.A.T. event for Saturday, August 23rd. How does that work?
In the Peace of Christ,
Chris
· Are you’re interested in joining?
· How frequently could you meet (it would be weekday evenings or weekends, and since it’s time away from our wives, it probably won’t be more often than once every 2 weeks)?
· What activities could we do?
· Anyone else who would fit in this group that you’d like to invite?
I propose the first official F.I.A.T. event for Saturday, August 23rd. How does that work?
In the Peace of Christ,
Chris
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