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Quiet Days and Easter Vigil

Holy Week at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
April 10-15, 2006
Retreat House

Monday through Friday
Daily meditations and prayers at 10:00 am and 4:00 pm

Good Friday
5:00 pm: Sharing soup and bread together
6:00 pm: Praying the Stations of the Cross
followed by a Service of Darkness
and entering into the Easter Vigil

Holy Saturday
Observing the Easter Vigil,
concluding with a Service of Light at 8:00 pm

You are warmly invited to participate in any or all of these events


The Easter Vigil is traditionally observed from Good Friday evening until the evening of Holy Saturday. During this time, we will observe a 24-hour prayer vigil. Please consider whether you would like to participate in this vigil for one or more hours, between 8:00 pm on Friday, April 14 and 8:00 pm, Saturday, April 15. If you are unable to be physically present with us at Rolling Ridge, you are still welcome to participate by "keeping watch" during this time. If you do so, please let us know which hour(s) of the day you have set aside for prayer.

There is no registration fee for any of the week's activities. A simple soup and bread meal will be served Friday evening. No meals will be provided the rest of the week, but you are welcome to bring your own provisions. All events will take place at the Retreat House. The Retreat House will be available for retreatants who would like to stay overnight one or more nights during the week.

Please let us know if you will be participating by contacting us at community@rollingridge.net or by calling 304-725-4301.

Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is an ecumenical retreat center nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

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We need quiet time in the presence of God. Although we want to make all our time time for God, we will never succeed if we do not reserve a specific and consistent amount of time to listen in the Silence. This asks for much discipline and risk-taking, because we often have something more urgent to do and "just sitting there" and "doing nothing" may disturb us more than it helps. But there is no way around this. Being useless and silent in the presence of God belongs to the core of all prayer. In the beginning, we often hear our own unruly inner noises more loudly than God's voice. This is at times very hard to tolerate. But slowly, very slowly, we discover that the silent time makes us quiet and deepens our awareness of ourselves and God. Then, very soon, we start to miss these moments when we are deprived of them, and before we are fully aware of it, an inner momentum has developed that draws us more and more into silence and closer to that still point where God speaks to us.

~ from SEEDS OF HOPE: A HENRI NOUWEN READER ed. Robert Durback
 
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