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Annie
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Posted: Wed May 7th, 2008 04:50 pm |
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Please pray for me again as I go to St. Meinrad again Friday through Sunday. The retreat I had signed up for was canceled but I kept the room and intend to go down and work on my faith journey account I have been working on sporadically for a few months. I promise to stay out of the library and bookstore and just eat, sleep, chant with "my monks," and write.
I hope everything goes okay and I'm armed with my JPII be not afraid t-shirt, my St. Benedict medal, and my green scapular.
This gets me away from distractions like the refrigerator.
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tedjenczewski
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 12:43 am |
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| May God bless you on your trip. May your work be fruitful and bring others to the faith.
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 03:51 am |
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Annie, may God bless and protect you on your trip! By the way, ever thought of becoming a Nun?  Attachment: Nun.jpg (Downloaded 62 times)
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Annie
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 12:51 pm |
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EMarshallBuckles wrote: Annie, may God bless and protect you on your trip! By the way, ever thought of becoming a Nun?
No, it might become a habit. 
Thank you for your prayers. I'm all packed already! I am NOT bringing any books or my camera (other sources of distraction, besides my refrigerator ). I already have about 45 minutes of St. Meinrad movie I have made on the other two trips.
The funny thing is, I wrote very little about my faith journey in my diary all that time so I am piecing things together by the timeline. I also have a list of the books I bought at the Cathedral bookstore and the order in which I got them which helps.
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Intercessor
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 07:12 pm |
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Annie wrote:
Please pray for me again as I go to St. Meinrad again Friday through Sunday. The retreat I had signed up for was canceled but I kept the room and intend to go down and work on my faith journey account I have been working on sporadically for a few months. I promise to stay out of the library and bookstore and just eat, sleep, chant with "my monks," and write.
Annie, you'll be in my prayers. Have a wonderful weekend. My OCDS community will have a retreat there next April. I'm really looking forward to it.
Drive carefully.
Becky
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Annie
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 07:21 pm |
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You will love the guest house. it's brand new. all accessible. comfy sitting places. a gazebo on one side and a place with benches looking at the church on the other.
Each room has two twin beds, a nice writing desk, a dresser, a nice leather chair with footstool by the window. Private bath.
And the food is good too!
Last edited on Thu May 8th, 2008 07:22 pm by Annie
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Pani Rose
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 09:14 pm |
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Go with God!
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Credo Catholic
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Posted: Fri May 9th, 2008 02:17 pm |
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| Have a safe trip Annie, and travel more miles inwardly than on the road! God bless
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Ali
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 11:34 am |
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Hope your trip went well over the weekend and you can face the world with renewed energy and compassion.
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Annie
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 01:04 pm |
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Thank you for your prayers.
It was GREAT. there were few people there, being Mother's Day weekend, except those for the graduation. The retreatants were: me, a man from Kentucky, and 6 Little Sisters of the Poor from various local places on their annual 8-day retreat. So the neighbors were quiet.
sunday morning there was a big storm and lightning hit the Hill just at the beginning of matins and lauds. There was a power failure during Mass but that didn't matter, we don't need no organ, not really, with a buncha monks chanting. the polyphony was beautiful.
I walked around a lot and ate sparingly (for me, ). I lost a pound with all the walking!
I spent time in the cemetery. It was interesting. They brought Abbot Martin Marty's body back from St. Cloud in 2004 and he is interred in the Abbott I position. I found a book about him in the library. He was famous as a missionary to the Sioux, was made a bishop, and had a somewhat testy relationship with Sitting Bull.
I gave two impromptu tours of the archabbey church on Saturday afternoon. Hint that somebody might not be Catholic: they have their picture taken standing in front of the ornate tabernacle. A swallow or swift had come inside and was flying around so we left the door open. It eventually got out.
Edited: I forgot to note that we said blessings at vespers Friday for Fr. Patrick, who returns to Qatar in the Kentucky Air National Guard. The prayers were beautiful.
I drove home in the rain and thought how blessed I am to have a place to go like that. It is easy to get caught up in the history of the place.
Last edited on Mon May 12th, 2008 01:26 pm by Annie
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Annie
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 02:51 pm |
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Marshall, my brother said about my becoming a nun, after I told him I think there is an age cut-off of 27 like the military:
"After age 27, they become Republicans and learn about investing on line and that ruins the whole poverty angle."
Ha ha.
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 09:30 pm |
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Annie, I'm so pleased you had a great weekend.
You've had such nice things to say about St. Meinrad that
I am really eager for our retreat there in April.
God bless,
Becky
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Annie
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 06:45 pm |
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I forgot to mention that all the chairs in the lobby area of the guest house have been replaced with glider rockers with CUSHIONS! 
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