Category: Online Retreat Reflections

The guide for week 34 of the Online Retreat in Everyday Time is here.All those weeks and months ago, when this retreat started, and even though I’d been through it before, 34 weeks seemed like a LOOONNNGGG time. It’s less than...

The guide for week 33 of the Online Retreat in Everyday Time is here.There was a prayer in the guide this week that I copied down — twice — and that I have been praying all week. My mother-in-law was at my house and...

The Week 32 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.Thinking of that makes me think of just how long this journey of 40 weeks is. It makes me look back over the last 32 weeks and wonder at the path I’ve traveled...

The Week 31 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.Have you ever been going along, minding your own business when all of a sudden, with a SMACK, you realize the enormity, the implications, the beauty of what...

The Week 30 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.After weeks of contemplating the end of Jesus’ life, I find myself here, on Easter morn, a little…speechless.Recently, someone dear to me asked me about my...

image sourceThe Week 29 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.This week, during Holy Week, we contemplate Jesus in death during our online retreat.In our everyday life, we let this fact — this astonishing...

image sourceThe Week 28 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.This week we’re led to the Passion. It’s hard for me to read it through new eyes. We hear it every year around this time, and though I know it’s...

I thought I was going to write about Week 28 this morning, but as it turns out, I’m not. So you’ll have to wait until tomorrow, or maybe we’ll just wait until Sunday and let the Passion soak in for another...

image sourceThe Week 27 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.The first time I experienced Holy Thursday Mass, the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, I was a fairly new Catholic and I had a pew full of family, because...

The Week 25 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.It’s the story of the woman at the well that struck me this week, that stayed with me during my quiet times and came back to me, again and again. I don’t usually...

The Week 24 guide for the Online Retreat in Everyday Life is here.I resist change, and, if I’m truthful, I resist authority. I don’t mean to…it just seems to be how I’m wired.During my Christian, and particularly my...