![]() It's pretty impossible for wind to open or close it because the room does not have any open windows (it was really cold the night before so we closed off all windows). Soon some of my classmates woke up and I approached the cabinet searching on why it opened and closed but I found out that its hinge is actually a cabinet clip so opening or closing it requires a bit of strength. Then I heard several students from other rooms walking toward the comfort room so I decided to open the lights and looked at my cellphone time. I freeze up trying to sense if any of my fellow students are awake, but I could not take my eyes away from it. I don't know when I fell asleep again, but I woke up again when I heard another creaking sound and the now opened cabinet slowly closed up. It completely opened and I can actually see the shirt that I hung inside of it. As I lay on my bed facing the vacant beds, I hear this creaking sound and I saw one of the cabinets behind the now closed door open slowly. I keep imagining that something will pop out from the bed under me but, being tired, I fell asleep facing the vacant beds.Īround 2am (according to my cellphone clock) I woke up and I try sensing on what could have woken me. Wrong choice! I directly face the 3 vacant beds and my mind starts to play tricks on me. I decided to sleep on the outer corner of our bed. I and 2 of my classmates occupy 3 of the beds that are in the row of the 3 vacant ones that are placed in the part of the room where it have glass windows where you can see the hallway and the door is on the same wall part as well.Īll of us are already scared, especially my friends so we decided to push our beds together and sleep in it. Our room only have 9 students in it, so 3 beds remain vacant. ![]() I and several of my batch mates choose a room near the comfort room and have a great view of the garden and the spacious rooftop. The rooms in the retreat house consist of 12 single beds each and one wall (near the door) has a row of built in cabinets where we could put our things. I just shrugged it off, knowing that the dead could never harm me. It felt like hundred of eyes were looking at me. When I reached our destination that place immediately gave me the chills. So I and all graduating students of all 3 campuses of our school as well as our instructors went for 1 and a half hour drive to a Retreat house in Tagaytay City. We have a waiting list and reservations should be made six months in advance.It's year 2007 and our school conducted a 2 days and a night of spiritual retreat to all senior graduating students. “We are crowded all the time, although the quieter months are February and March. “It’s very simple and comfortable, and people like it,” reports Murray. In good weather, many questers take walks or scramble along the rocky shoreline in search of a place to sit and read or pray. Guests are housed in single rooms (there are more than 50 bedrooms), so there is adequate privacy, even though bathrooms are shared. Meals are communal and accompanied by classical music. ![]() The dining room faces the ocean and also has many places for people to sit quietly and write.” ![]() We have three chapels where the Blessed Sacrament is observed. “The interior freedom.may include the use of music (through headphones) and books and art. “The whole key to the Spiritual Exercises is freedom,” Murray says. Retreatants meet daily with a spiritual director, attend communal worship and mass, and are free to pray in a chapel or to find comfortable nooks throughout the beautiful, very large house. Retreats lasting from four to 30 days follow the Spiritual Exercises drawn up by Saint Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Jesuits) in the early 1500s, based on his own conversion experience. “And most people would say that it is in the silence they meet God.” Gonzaga Eastern Point Retreat House, run by Jesuits in an old stone mansion on the ocean in Gloucester, Massachusetts, “is known for its sacred silence,” says its director, Father John P.
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