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The second Ignatian Star: a design from Silence by Wayne Stratz The Jesuits are glad to have us there for a time to be in silence, but...

  I had posted a link to my acceptance that jazz in my church would be a j ourney that could not be predicted . One friend thought...

Eventually I emerged from the tree, but I continued to spend time with the tune as my silent retreat unfolded. Turned out I had several v...

I drove up to sunflowers that dazzled me Monday at noon. The eight days of silence had gone as smoothe as any retreat I had been on, it fe...

I am thinking about how art emerges while I am on retreats, as I work on a piece designed at the Jesuit Center months ago. This past week...

Light and Darkness at the Jesuit Center In my last reflection I mentioned going to the library.  Buechner was mostly read and in the m...

Wernersville Tree ~ as I approached  Having left the arts and crafts pub in Reading, it was a direct route to the Jesuit Center but a ...

Wernerville Cross by Wayne Stratz Hangs at the Jesuit Center As I mentioned in my last blog post, a blog post mentioning a mug brought m...

Soon I will be entering silence. A chance to clear my head from technology and to hear what emerges. I will be leaving the iPad and I w...

Longwood Gardens, where a Beech helped me to stretch. photo by Margaret Almon The woman ducks into the tree.  Yes, that is what happen...

Translations by Daniel Ladinsky As I reviewed the last seven love poems, this one leapt out at me.  It expands what I see my role ...

check out the time doing what I do there, Wernersville that is... 1.  Turn on the i Pod and go to tune 21 , then stretch out and list...

The Shadow of Wayne Stratz Jesuit Retreat Center Wernersville, PA "Troublemakers:  Since no one really knows anything about God, ...

I am not well known for my plans, though I have them, well kind of, well they are floating around in my brain and as they float by I tweak t...

Us introverts often sit silently at meetings and plan out what we want to say in our head, while the extroverts think out loud and then turn...

a friend reading this post , asks... So this was a completely silent retreat? 8 days? I arrived in time to unpack before dinner, send o...

Giggles asked...Does silence count if you are listening to your ipod?? Yes it does. When I am at the Jesuit Center I take music to liste...

My creaky car door slammed into the silence. I had just dropped a load of stuff into my car when I made the noise. It catches the attentio...

tower on the Jesuit Center Wernersville, PA OK, so I am going to resist the world especially a desire to know what other think of Soph...