I’m off tomorrow for the annual Diocese of Edmonton Clergy Retreat at the Star of the North Retreat Centre in St. Albert, just north-west of Edmonton. The retreat starts about 4.00 p.m. Monday and runs until supper time Wednesday. It’s a silent retreat, although participants have been known to go for conversation walks with one another. One thing I always do at least once during the retreat is to walk out to Big Lake and back; it’s about two and a half miles (so a five mile round trip), and the birdwatching is great at Big Lake. Our retreat leader is Brother Jude Hill who is apparently a Franciscan monk. I don’t suppose he has noticed that the retreat takes us away from home on Valentine’s Day…!!!
Clergy Retreat reminds me that Lent is only ten days away. I wonder what you are planning to do to ‘have a miserable Lent’ (as Joe Walker used to say!)?
