Tomorrow morning:
The Monthly Pancake Breakfast at my church. A lot of people from the surrounding area come. It will be busy and crowded and noisy.
Tomorrow evening:
The Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Ignatian Spirituality Institute, where I did my spiritual direction training. In a moment of weakness some months ago, I agreed to host the speech-ifying part. Since someone from each of the ten classes will be saying something, I'm going to talk about Ignatian repetition in prayer. I also have one joke, because I was instructed to be funny. Jokes are not my thing; usually I cannot remember them for more than about a second. But this one made me laugh. Let's hope I can remember it for another twenty-four hours.
Sunday:
A complete and total day off. With some laundry and packing. Because . . .
Monday morning:
A drive to Pittsburgh for the seminary Taize' service and visits and lunch with professors and
Monday afternoon:
Keep driving until I reach Wernersville for dinner, a meeting with the lovely man who's been my director there for now the fourth time, and
Silence begins.
In my head, I am already there!
Image: Wernersville Jesuit Center, October 2010
Enjoy your retreat. I go off to clergy conference next week and then back for a couple of days before I leave for 8 days of CREDO. I am so completely there with you, yearning for - well I won't get silence - but I will at least have stillness while someone else is in charge. Peace!!!
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ReplyDeleteWishing you a peaceful, restorative, and discerning retreat. Oh, and good luck with the joke!
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ReplyDeleteSorry to have missed you at the dinner. My wife and I had to leave before the speeches to relieve the babysitter. But it was an enjoyable evening, and hopefully it continued to be so!
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