Poustinia Retreat
“Waste a day” with the Lord
What the retreat includes:
Our Poustinia Retreat will be 24 hours of silence and solitude. We begin with mass on Friday evening. Then we will each go to our individual rooms with only bread, water, a bible, a prayer journal, an icon, and any necessary clothes and toiletries. No phones, electronics or watches. We only leave our rooms to use the bathroom. Father will bring us all back to the chapel for Mass on Saturday. Afterward, we will enjoy a meal together and share about the retreat. We will sleep at the retreat center again on Saturday night and leave Sunday after morning prayer and breakfast.
We have a couple formation meetings leading up to the retreat to prepare ourselves physically and spiritually.
We will cover the topics of fasting, Scripture, journaling, icons, and silence. We fast on bread and water on our meeting days to help us prepare for our retreat fast.
Poustinia Retreats encourage retreatants to grow in their relationship witih the Lord through:
- Praying with Scripture (Lectio Divina)
- Praying with an Icon
- Silence
- Fasting
- Journaling