Celebrating National Hermit Day: A Day of Quiet at Bon Secours

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Do you… need a day of quiet and solitude to rest, reflect, be? need at least one of these each year? sense that God may be inviting you to enter silence and reorient? October 29th might be just for you, as it is the annual celebration of National Hermit Day. Although its origins are not firmly known, many attribute Hermit Day’s origin to the 18th century and suggest a connection to the Irish Hermit Saint Colman. It gives us an opportunity to join the many others who — throughout Christian history — have entered silence and solitude to remember what is most important: to listen, to pray. 

A day like this has the potential to initiate or strengthen a regular practice. Since 2014, Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center has hosted Quiet Morning events that are also opportunities for shared silence. This day will follow a similar pattern. We will begin and end together in simple prayer, have lunch in shared silence, and spend the day on our own in prayer or other quiet activities such as walking, doing art, reading, journaling — whatever you feel inclined to do. The Center’s daily Mass at 11:00 am will be available to you, if desired. 

This is mostly a silent retreat. Lunch is included. Guided by Joanne Cahoon. To register, click HERE.