(Come and Rest / Welcome Home / Self-Directed Retreats) This reflection is the fifth and final one, focusing on Catholics who find themselves outside the boundaries of the Catholic Church. I write this from the perspective of one
In this third series, realize, as I had to, that all I needed to do to reach Christ was to go to that quiet place, the one no one wants to enter, the upper room of my inner
One of the lessons brought home forcefully to me while I wandered in the desert of my own misconceptions about the Catholic Church was that the Church was to blame for my alienation. After the initial ego wrangling
Wait a month, then perform this next iteration of the Private Retreat. Week Two of the Private Retreat: Week One focused on the questions each human must ask and answer to expand their consciousness of the purpose of
The context of this private retreat must be simplicity itself, requiring that we sit down in silence and solitude in that upper room of our inner self, and just wait. It is not for the faint of heart.
I can remember reading The Soul of the Apostolate in College. This is the spiritual classic by DOM JEAN-BAPTIST CHAUTARD, O.C.S.O. (Abbot of Notre Dame de Sept Fons). This morning, the Holy Spirit tickled my neurons to bring
I made this contemplative retreat recently and found it to be life-changing and the most inspiring thoughts that I am still processing to assimilate into my personal spiritual worldview. I offer to share this with you, but be
SEEKING GOD AT FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES I love Five Guys Burgers and Fries (don’t tell my wife). They specialize in not only the best burgers I have tasted this side of my own grille but also
Think you are all alone and cut off from your Church as you ponder the inscrutable happenings of the COVID 19 virus? There are two ways to look at Church: one is a place where you go to
Making a retreat is one of those events where there are a thousand reasons not to go but only one good one to go– to grow in the capacity to move from self to God. Movement is a
This coming August 19-22, 2019, (Monday through Thursday), there will be an opportunity for you to make a retreat at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Retreat Center, Conyers, Georgia. If you have been to the Monastery for
In February, Lay Cistercians of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery, Conyers, Georgia, will be making their annual retreat. Retreats are special opportunities to advance the amount of time we spend in the presence of Christ. What
Every now and then, more so now that I am 77 years old, I get an idea that sends me flush with excitement. For an old, broken-down temple of the Holy Spirit, that can be extremely important. Just
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