The Anchoress Starts Her ONLINE RETREAT

If you wsh to join in it has started. See Welcome to Retreat!

This might be a good outlet for those that wish to prepare themselves for the upcoming Holy Day of the Assumption. Though it is not aimed just toward Catholics!!

I will be checking in but not exactly going to be an active participant in the fullest since at this time I am not going to be withdrawing from the world as much as one should during a retreat. I do think to get the fullness of such an acticity that is needed.The Anchoress says:

It is a reclamation of the “self” we tend to expend in too-great measure every day. In “giving up” as much of “the world” as one can reasonably do, for a limited time, we may re-order our priorities, re-discover what is really important in our real lives. Often our daily routine tends to corrupt our view, so that we begin to believe we need some things to survive - that we need to check in on the news 5 times a day, we need to answer some snarky remark in an internet forum. During this retreat time, I would urge you to resist the urge to follow your ordinary blog-reading/news-reading patterns, to step away from the computer as much as possible and consider that the time you would normally spend online might be better spent snoozing in the hammock, taking a walk, visiting a neighbor or picking up an old, discarded hobby.