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In January, I had the opportunity to be on an 8 day silent retreat with 14 of my missionary brothers and sisters. It was a retreat based on the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius, a retreat he wrote specifically to be done in silence. Each of us met individually with a spiritual director for an hour each day (the only time when we were allowed any kind of communication) who personally tailored our meditations and holy hours to apply to where we were in our personal walk with Christ. My own retreat