{"id":160,"date":"2022-10-19T22:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marywhitney.me.holycross.edu\/?p=143"},"modified":"2022-10-19T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:46:21","slug":"fall-break-what-a-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/2022\/10\/19\/fall-break-what-a-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Break&#8230; What a (Re)Treat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I embarked on my first visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/faith-service\/facilities\/joyce-contemplative-center\">Joyce Contemplative Center<\/a> for a five-day silent retreat modeled on St. Ignatius&#8217; <em>Spiritual Exercises<\/em>. It was an incredible experience&#8230; honestly, I&#8217;m at a loss for words on how to describe it (especially since I couldn&#8217;t say anything while I was there)! I will say that it was both so freeing and relaxing to completely disconnect from the world and be fully immersed in my thoughts and God&#8217;s presence. I did lots of spiritual reading, went on multiple walks on the trail and in the little labyrinth, and even picked up a new hobby&#8230; embroidery! I have lots of experience with cross-stitching, but it was great to put those skills to something new.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/10\/IMG_0913-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My favorite sunrise during the retreat. The chapel has the best view by far!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The retreat was a much-needed opportunity to slow down, and it&#8217;s safe to say that I not only feel more rested and energized, but I find myself enjoying the company of my friends that much more. As the weather starts to turn, I&#8217;m gleefully anticipating all the things to come\u2014especially more new experiences! I hope one of those will be visiting the JCC in the snow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I embarked on my first visit to the Joyce Contemplative Center for a five-day silent retreat modeled on St. Ignatius&#8217; Spiritual Exercises. It was an incredible experience&#8230; honestly, I&#8217;m at a loss for words on how to describe it (especially since I couldn&#8217;t say anything while I was there)! I will say that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/2022\/10\/19\/fall-break-what-a-retreat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fall Break&#8230; What a (Re)Treat!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/marywhitney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}