Uncle Jesse VQ: 28 Pax
F3 – Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith
Mission – Plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
5 Core Principals
• Free
• Open to all Men
• Always outside
• Led in a rotating fashion
• End in a Circle of Trust
Creedo – Leave no man behind, but leave no man where we found him.
A short warm up at the flags and then on to the beatdown on the goal line. All 28 lines up where we went through 14 Stations in remembrance on Good Friday.
1. Jesus is Condemned to death
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Hydraulic Squats – 30 seconds
2. Jesus is given his cross
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Hand release Merkins – 40 seconds
3. Jesus falls the first time
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Burpees – 50 seconds
4. Jesus meets his mother
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Sarpy Slammers – 60 seconds
5. Simon helps Jesus carry his cross
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Alternating single leg deadlifts – 70 seconds
6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Heels to heaven – 80 seconds
7. Jesus falls the second time
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Groiner – 90 seconds
8. Jesus meets the daughters of Jerusalem
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Supermans – 100 seconds
9. Jesus falls the third time
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Absolutions – 110 seconds
10. Jesus is stripped of his garments
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Merkins – 120 seconds
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Cherry Pickers – 130 seconds
12. Jesus Dies
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Meditate in silence – 140 seconds
13. Jesus is removed from the cross
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. Bobby Hurley – 150 seconds
14. Jesus is laid in the tomb
a. 50 yard line and back – 45 seconds
b. 3 minute plank (left, right, normal)
COT:
February 4th, 2021 my youngest son Lincoln was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He wasn’t even 2 years old. I was surrounded by friends, family, and a M who is second to none. They all supported me in every way humanly possible. But facing thereality that my son had a brain tumor and that there was nothing I could do to change it or make it better was frightening. Luckily, 6 months before the diagnosis, the Holy Spirit had guided me to reconnect with a nun I knew in high school: Sister Cecilia Ann Rezac. After the diagnosis she introduced my Mand me to the Surrender Novena. The novena is meant to be prayed as if Jesus speaking the words directly to you. Day 8 is my favorite and I’d like to share it with you.
Close your eyes and let yourself be carried away on the flowing current of my grace; close your eyes and do not think of the present, turning your thoughts away from the future just as you would from temptation. Repose in me, believing in my goodness, and I promise you by my love that if you say “You take care of it,” I will take care of it all; I will console you, liberate you, and guide you.
The surrender it refers to is not a disheartened submission to the inevitable or Stoicism, it is a call to active cooperation with God in the situations that you’re currently undergoing. When things are good that is easy but all too often, we attribute that to ourselves. Then when things get hard, and our illusions of control are shattered, when it is our loved ones, or ourselves who are suffering and we have no control, what do we rely on? When that happens to me, I remember Jesus’s Passion; what he underwent on Good Friday, today. God came to earth and became human with the full knowledge that we would torture and kill him for it. He did it anyway. He loves us, he did it to save us, and that kind of love is something I can trust and rely on during the difficult times.
So, I invite you to surrender, to close your eyes, and be carried away trusting in Him. If you’ve wandered away or are estranged from Him; there is no time better than Good Friday and Easter to return. He is waiting for you.