At our OCDS National Council meeting yesterday, the possibility of organising day retreats was raised. We currently organise week-long retreats and weekend retreats but we have not had a systematic policy of holding day retreats. Many OCDS communities do have a practice of holding their own day retreats annually. I must admit that I am not a brilliant retreatant generally because I live a very quiet life on my own and I work from home; I am not therefore subject to the strains and stresses of family and work life as a norm. I can imagine that if a person can’t get to a weekend or week-long retreat, a day retreat could be a kind of spiritual injection as it were, but I personally do not find the experience very rewarding – although who knows what the Spirit is doing unbeknownst to me! In practice it usually takes time to get to the retreat location and to get home again and that shortens the day into something less. But if there is a demand out there for such retreats, perhaps we can do something.
Intercessions:
Elara and Siena – very sick children
Marie – cancer
Bernard – cancer, and wife Angela
Rosemarie – multiple afflictions
Agnes – very ill
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