Retreats have different styles from year to year. Some retreat leaders like to preside and preach at all the liturgies. Bishop Ed Price, our leader, wants us to take those roles and today Fr. Roy Stiles presided at our first liturgy together.
The food at the Abbey of Gethsemani is simple, prepared by the monks, but wonderful. The temptation is to take some of each offering–and eat too much.
Most of the day, and especially the meals, are in silence. We sit individually in a large dining room that has a wall of windows looking out on to a garden full of birds picking seeds from bird feeders.
