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Retreats:

Usually offered once a month: "A Day in the Desert"

This is a free opportunity for single women over 17 to have an overnight and day of complete quiet for prayer and reflection with our community.  You are invited to join the sisters in singing the Liturgy of the Hours, and if you would like, there will also be opportunities during the day to speak one-on-one with a sister.

Upcoming overnights:  TBA Please contact us.

A typical "Day in the Desert":

Saturday night:

6:30 PM arrive at convent

6:45 PM preparation together for Sunday

8:00 PM Sung night prayer with the sisters in the convent chapel

8:30 PM Grand Silence

Sunday morning:

7:30 AM Breakfast

8:00 AM Sung Office of Readings and Morning Prayer in convent chapel, with harp

9:00 AM Free silent time/ opportunity to talk with a sister

10 AM Holy Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish

12:15 PM Silent Lunch

1:15 PM Free silent time/ opportunity to talk with a sister

2:30 PM Rosary with the sisters

3:00 PM  Sung Vespers

4:00 PM Farewells

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So I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart.

Hosea 2:16

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Truly I have set my soul in silence and peace.  As a child has rest in its mother's arms, even so my soul.

From Psalm 131      

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 Altar of repose which we had the privilege to decorate at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Raytown, Missouri

 

 


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