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Simply Silence: Spring

An age-old prayer tradition for contemporary pilgrims
April 10-12, 2015
Friday evening supper through Sunday morning
Still Point Mountain Retreat

Gather at Still Point Mountain Retreat for Friday Vespers, followed by 7:00 p.m. dinner and Compline. Arrive Friday after 1:00 p.m. Retreat ends on Sunday morning. Gathered participants will follow contemporary Prayer of the Hours, interspersed with generous time for silence and rambling in the winter woods, warming around the fire, reading or writing in the library, reflecting through art or your own contemplative work, and enjoying one another in community. Come away and rest. A warm, comfortable log cabin and kindred spirits await.

Retreat include five delicious home-style meals, a contemplative library and art materials. Retreat Fee: $185.

It's easy to register:

  • Email lindsay.rollingridge@gmail.com or call 304.724.1069.
  • Download the registration form and mail in with $75 deposit to Friends of Silence, 120 Jubilee Lane, Harpers Ferry WV 25425.
  • Register online and Pay Online

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I am thinking, or trying to think, about all the
Imponderables for which we have
no answers, yet endless interest all the
Range of our lives...
Mystery, after all, is God’s other name...

But, but---
excuse me now, please; it’s morning, heavenly bright,
and my irrepressible heart begs me to hurry on
Into the next exquisite moment.

~ Mary Oliver from "Trying to Be Thoughtful in the First Brights of Dawn" in SWAN
 

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