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Take Heart

At the beginning of January, the missionaries here at Covecrest did an eight-day retreat. Not just any eight-day retreat, but an eight-day silent retreat. We’ve known about the retreat since the beginning of the year in September, so it wasn’t much of a surprise that the day before our two-week Christmas break, we began praying and talking about it as a community. The retreat is a combination of meditations taken from St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises, personal spiritual direction, and nightly conferences

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