The weekend of November 5-7, 2010 will be the fourth annual trip to The Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, NY.  The cost is $180/person and seven rooms have been reserved. The attendees expressing an interest:
1. Chris Hall (pd)
2. Connor Hall (pd)
3. Rande Davis
4. Elliott Friedman
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At Holy Cross you enter into a time of prayer and reflection, renewal and re-creation. The time spent there helped deepen our sense of communion with God, nature and with others. Holy Cross is part of the Order of the Holy Cross.  The Order is a Benedictine Anglican monastic community founded in 1884 by James Otis Sargent Huntington to provide a specifically North American expression of monasticism.  The Order is comprised of 5 houses in the US, Canada, and South Africa.  The brothers live in community under the threefold vow of obedience, stability, and conversion to the Monastic way of life as stated in the Rule of St. Benedict. Their life also reflects the rule of their Founder, Fr. Huntington.
Located on the scenic Hudson River, reading, writing, prayer, meditation, worship, nature walks, all were part of the retreat. We spent part of our retreat in silence.  

 Each day begins with Matins and during the morning we will celebrate the Holy Eucharist. At noon, all gather again in the church for Diurnum and our work day closed with Vespers. After dinner, we participate in Compline in anticipation of God's care through the night.