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Andruschak
Guest
Just a few notes about my Easter Triduum Retreat at the Mary and Joseph Retreat Center.
Our Retreat Guide was Fr. Alan Phillip, as he took us through the Triduum. We had 13 participents, a small but devout gathering. We had conferences once or twice a day, masses and litergies, morning prayer, Stations of the Cross, and Eucherist Adoration.
Yet we also had enough free time for reading, study, and our own prayers and devotions. I did a confession with Fr. Alan Saturday Morning, followed by an Annointing Of The Sick (for my alcoholism).
Although 3 meals a day were served, I stuck to my fasting routine of 5:30 PM dinner only, with liquids otherwise. Easy enough to do when there was nothing much in the way of physical activity.
My primary reading was THE WAY, by Saint Escriva. This book is essentially 999 short thoughts by Escriva, grouped into 46 topics. I’d read a few paragraphs, then meditate on what I had just read. This book is one which I will be going back to again and again.
I also read most of the literature published by the Matt Talbot Retreat Movement. Matt was a chronic alcoholic who sobered up long before AA was created, and the publications detailed how he did this extraordinary feat. He was a Franciscan Tertiary, among other things.
All in all, a true retreat experience, and well worth the time and money
Our Retreat Guide was Fr. Alan Phillip, as he took us through the Triduum. We had 13 participents, a small but devout gathering. We had conferences once or twice a day, masses and litergies, morning prayer, Stations of the Cross, and Eucherist Adoration.
Yet we also had enough free time for reading, study, and our own prayers and devotions. I did a confession with Fr. Alan Saturday Morning, followed by an Annointing Of The Sick (for my alcoholism).
Although 3 meals a day were served, I stuck to my fasting routine of 5:30 PM dinner only, with liquids otherwise. Easy enough to do when there was nothing much in the way of physical activity.
My primary reading was THE WAY, by Saint Escriva. This book is essentially 999 short thoughts by Escriva, grouped into 46 topics. I’d read a few paragraphs, then meditate on what I had just read. This book is one which I will be going back to again and again.
I also read most of the literature published by the Matt Talbot Retreat Movement. Matt was a chronic alcoholic who sobered up long before AA was created, and the publications detailed how he did this extraordinary feat. He was a Franciscan Tertiary, among other things.
All in all, a true retreat experience, and well worth the time and money
