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• OVERNIGHT RETREATS
  
  For an overnight retreat, please arrive between 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. 
  Enter the front door of Incarnate Word Convent, 1101 N E Water Street.
  Hospitality Volunteers will welcome you and give you a tour of your bedroom and the retreat areas.
   
  Retreats begin with an introduction and prayer service at 5:30 p.m. in the Amor Meus dining room followed by an evening meal at 6:00 p.m. on the day of arrival.  The retreat ends with the noon meal on the last day of the retreat.
  
  WHAT TO BRING FOR OVERNIGHT RETREAT

  • Bible
  • a journal or special notebook
  • comfortable casual clothes and walking shoes
  • medicine and toiletries
  • light jacket or sweater in summer if needed in the air conditioned buildings
  • coat in winter
  • a readiness for quiet prayer and  a heart open to God’s love

   
  WHAT TO LEAVE AT HOME

  • radio
  • TV
  • computer/laptop
  • iPods or MP3players
  • books
  • your work agenda: a retreat is a time for God’s agenda
  • We recommend you not bring your cell phone. Cell phones can be a disturbance to silence and quiet for yourself and other retreatants.  If it is necessary that you keep a cell phone, please turn it off during the retreat.  If a call to your family is a "must”, please use it in the evening and outdoors.

   
  This may seem a lot to leave behind, but remember your stay is only temporary.  You will find the silence a wonderful gift during and after the retreat.  You will experience the value of giving this time to yourself and to your God.
   

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  GUEST ROOMS
   
  All retreatants enjoy a clean, simple private room with closet and a window view of nature.  Rooms are furnished with a single bed, a bedside table with lamp, a reclining chair with a reading lamp and bookshelf.
   
  All bedrooms are easily accessible to large bathrooms with ample showers.  Fresh clean bed and bath linens are furnished for each bedroom.
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In all places and at all times during a retreat, we are aware of the "still small voice” that speaks to our hearts. Prayerful silence is the gift we give to one another on retreat. Silence is observed in the                                                             hallways and special retreat rooms.
  
  
   

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  MEALS
  
  Meals at Amor Meus are simple, nutritious and healthy.  Home-style meals are prepared by the convent kitchen staff and served cafeteria style.
   
  
  MEAL SCHEDULE
   
              Breakfast                     7:30 – 8:30
   
              Noon Meal                  Served at 11:30
   
              Evening Meal             Served at 5:30
   
  All meals are enjoyed in the Amor Meus Dining Room in an atmosphere of silence.  Soft reflective music is played at the noon and  evening meals.
   
  The Amor Meus Dining Room is opened at 7:00 a.m. and closed at 7:00 p.m.  For early morning risers, coffee and tea are available at 6:00 a.m. on the 2^nd floor in the alcove at the end of the hall.
   
  Snacks and drinks are available throughout the day in the Amor Meus dining room. Please indicate on the Registration form if you have special dietary  and/or  medical needs.
   
  In keeping with national health trends, smoking is not permitted in any building or on the grounds of Amor Meus Spirituality Center and Incarnate Word Convent.