Something I love about Catholicism: the call, through the centuries, to step away from the pressing demands and numbing routines of daily life and seek out what is timeless, spirit-filling, truly enriching. This call can be found in the writings of the ancient monks (modern monks too), and even in the gospels, where Christ tells his disciples to come away with him for rest, prayer, recharging. (All right, I guess Christ never did call it recharging--seeing that electricity and batteries weren't part of the vocabulary then.)
Creighton University, which has a wonderful daily reflections center (with many of the scripture reflections written lay people, as well as scripture scholars), also is home to this online Ignatian retreat. I meant to follow along last autumn but somehow got distracted. This time, I'm doing it. Dug into the book about three o'clock this morning, actually. (Yep, you can do the retreat totally online or with paper, your choice.) I'm grateful to the people associated with Creighton who put these things together. Great resource; food for my faith life, and I need that food.
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