March On...

Good eve to all my loving friends and anyone else who may chance upon this.

I have returned from my trip to Maryland, having visited the Institute of the Incarnate Word's formation house and seminary. Granted, I came back a little bald, but at least the novices had a lot of fun cutting off all those curls. I wanted to thank everyone for your prayers, as the experience was quite intense, although I am sorry to say for those of you hoping so much that I would find my future home, that this visit seems to have raised more questions than answers. They are certainly a very solid order, and very orthodox, but as it stands, I have absolutely no idea what is going on at this point in time. Luckily I have finally made an appointment with my spiritual director so I hope to have some answers or at least to be at peace with whatever crazy process God is doing with me.

It was really quite incredible to be there though. I attended an Ignatian spiritual retreat, which was pretty much solely for me. That was a day and a half of silence by myself in the chapel, after a day and a half of silence with the Novices and Postulants. It was so strange to have people prepare food for me but I would eat alone, and then a priest would give these short talks outlining the next spiritual exercise and then he'd take off and I'd be all alone. It was a wonderful and peaceful time of prayer, and actually reminded me a whole lot of Medjugorje. But I had the opportunity to really talk it out with God and get to know more of my... well... lack of holiness. Ha ha... it's good to be humbled when I'm not very good at being humble on my own.

Anyhow, I don't really have a lot to share on the subject unless anybody has specific questions about these guys (I would highly recommend anyone to getting to know them, they are super holy men). Feel free to leave comments.

God's peace be upon you all.