Dorothy Day (1897-1980) is best known as the co-founder of the Catholic Worker,
an anarchist, pacifist, lay Catholic Christian movement, and founder
and editor of the newspaper by the same name.
Journalist, activist,
mother, speaker, she was also a person of prayer whose Roman Catholic
religious observance cannot be separated from her work for social and
economic justice and peace or from what Christian tradition calls “the
works of mercy.”
Click here for an informative essay on Dorothy Day if you want to know more.
What, when, where, how
* An online nine-day spiritual retreat, beginning April 1, 2022.
* The life and writings of Dorothy Day serve as a focus and inspiration.
* Simple and accessible:
one quote or short excerpt per day
one spiritual exercise per day
one prayer per day
on nine consecutive days
* At home, on a break at work, in a coffee shop, on vacation, in your
daily life: read, reflect, meditate, and pray with the retreat materials
in a way that suits your schedule.
* Spiritual refreshment, nurture, and challenge.
* You'll need 20 minutes a day of focused time (any time, day or night) and a computer or tablet with internet access.
* Easy registration via PayPal secure link, which takes credit and debit cards in addition to PayPal.
--Discounts are available for those in financial hardship. (If even the "hardship rate" is too high for you, please e-mail me about scholarship need.)
--The benefactor rate helps offset costs and makes scholarship aid possible.
Register here!
An online blog-based retreat? How does that work?
* The retreat offers daily resources (the quotes, spiritual exercises, and prayers
mentioned above, with some images as well to nourish you visually, and
sometimes a piece of music too) online on a blog. More specifically, a
closed blog.
* What's a closed blog? It's a blog like this,
but it is not public: it is open only to those whom the blog
owner-administrator (that's me) has signed in. In other words, it is not
open to anybody wandering around the internet. It is not searchable:
random web surfers will not be able to view either the blog or our
conversations in the comments.
* Once you register for the retreat, I will send instructions on
the one-time sign-in mechanism. After you first sign on to the retreat
blog, the blog will always recognize you.
Privacy and community
During the retreat, you can remain anonymous, invisible, and silent and just read the blog and use the quotes, spiritual exercises, and prayers on your own.
OR
If you are more extroverted and communal or in need of companions on your retreat, you can share your thoughts, experiences, and questions via
the comments function on the blog and engage in conversation with other
retreatants and with the retreat facilitator. (More about your friendly
retreat designer and facilitator, Jane Redmont, here. Please do not hesitate to write me with questions or concerns.)
The full list of our Lent 2022 online offerings is here.
Blog-based retreats like this one have a structure and a schedule, but they are flexible enough to integrate into your daily life: you are the one who decides when and where to read and pray with the materials in the retreat (day or night, at home or elsewhere) and how to apply the invitations to practice.
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