10/19/2025
These reflections are meant to support practices of Quiet and Silence deliberately entered into. Such practices are like 'date nights' for the spirit, with the God who loves and nurtures and feeds us, ever inviting us more deeply into fuller truer life. Hermit Day is October 29th, and there's a quiet day event at Bon Secours to attend, if you like and are local. A date day? Hoping for lovely weather at this lovely place too. This blog features that event, but also has a few ideas and quotes to support regular practices of Quiet we all do well to schedule into our day-week-month-year regularly. Consider 'hermit' time, or whatever you'd name it, once again. As the seasons change, always a good time to revisit what we want to intentionally give more time to or less time to in the life God gives us.
By Joanne Cahoon Hermit Day is coming up on October 29th, and Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center has made space for those who would like to gather to make space too, within our hearts/minds/calendars/lives – for quiet and for solitude. In the 21st century, when our day-to-day experience is ...