![]() ![]() ![]() Terra-cotta tiles cover the floor blue and pink pillows are pushed up against the wall for one to sit on during prayer. ![]() Two sides are made up of floor-to-ceiling windows that afford a clear view of the retreat house grounds. The marble-floored dining room, whose windows face the horizon, serves as the house chapel there the Blessed Sacrament, the consecrated Host, is reserved for private meditation-the devotional practice known by Catholics as “adoration.”In June, after spending four months working with Mother Teresa’s sisters, I returned to the States and began my long retreat at the Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts, an easy place to pray.īlighty’s former solarium is now a small meditation chapel. In the autumn and winter, retreatants sit before the fire as they think about the day’s prayer, quietly read their Bibles, or pen a few notes in a journal. The oak-paneled living room, whose focus is a huge fireplace, is now reserved in the evenings for prayer and meditation. Not surprisingly, the rooms are currently used for purposes far different from what the original builders intended. The retreat complex at Eastern Point is dominated by a sprawling mansion, once called “Blighty” and built by a wealthy Boston couple eager to escape the sultry city summers. ![]()
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