{"id":7133,"date":"2013-11-10T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:25:56","slug":"go-on-a-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/10\/go-on-a-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bucket List #5: Retreat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last Bucket List item was to <a title=\"Catholic Bucket List #4: Go on pilgrimage\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/go-on-pilgrimage\/\">go on pilgrimage<\/a>. Today&#8217;s Bucket List item is related to the previous one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Catholic Bucket List #5: Go on a retreat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In modern society we are surrounded by noise and we fill our days with business and it&#8217;s extremely easy for God to be squeezed out of our day. This is one of the reasons why retreats are so needed. Setting aside a day, a weekend or week to reconnect with God and spend some time with him in prayer can be so good for\u00a0reestablishing\u00a0a\u00a0healthy\u00a0life balance.<\/p>\n<p>No two retreats are ever the same and there are many different kinds of retreat which one may attend. I would suggest that everyone should go on a silent retreat at least once. I know that if you have never gone on one before, the thought of spending long periods in silence is a terrifying prospect, but believe me, by the end you&#8217;ll love it!<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago I was actively discerning the priesthood and, as part of my <a title=\"Three Images of Discernment\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/three-images-of-discernment\/\">discernment<\/a>\u00a0I went on a silent Ignatian Spiritual Exercises retreat given by the Miles Christi priests:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/retreat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12413\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/retreat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/retreat.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/retreat-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/retreat-1024x431.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Finding time to get away on retreat can sometimes be difficult, especially if one has children. If so, you might like to take a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loyolapress.com\/3-minute-retreats-daily-online-prayer.htm\">3 Minute Retreat<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Bucket List item was to go on pilgrimage. Today&#8217;s Bucket List item is related to the previous one: Catholic Bucket List #5: Go on a retreat In modern society we are surrounded by noise and we fill our days with business and it&#8217;s extremely easy for God to be squeezed out of our day. This is one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[322,1997,2969,118,399,1205],"class_list":["post-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-bucket-list","tag-catholic-bucket-list","tag-featured","tag-prayer","tag-retreat","tag-silence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54865,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions\/54865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}