What is God Squad?

God Squad is a group of young men and women who desire to strive in their spiritual life with the same intensity as some students strive in sports, band, theater or other extracurricular activities.  Students who go out for any of these will spend as much as two hours a day training and practicing to excel – so why not put a similar type of effort in excelling in the spiritual life?  Scriptures make this point saying:

^NAB 1 Timothy 4:7 Train yourself for devotion, ⁸ for, while physical training is of limited value, devotion is valuable in every respect, since it holds a promise of life both for the present and for the future. ⁹ This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance. ¹⁰ For this we toil and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the savior of all, especially of those who believe.

^NAB 1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win. ²⁵ Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. ²⁶ Thus I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing. ²⁷ No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

The practical goal of God Sqaud is to train people in lives of genuine devotion through spiritual exercises and meditation and to fully participate in the traditions and practices of Lent in preparation for an intense celebration of the Triduum and Easter Week.

The spiritual goal of God Squad is to die to the old self and rise to new life in Christ and to be “crucified with Christ” as St. Paul says,

“For I have been crucified with Christ;

and it is no longer I who live but Christ who is living in me.” 

Galatians 2:19-20