i haven't been posting a lot recently, but i've been reading stuff here every day. here's the situation i need advice on:

i got an email from a sister who has been my spiritual director the past three years with my newman center's busy person's retreat. she is inviting me to a come and see retreat palm sunday weekend. the retreat is only like 30 minutes away and i'm not doing anything that weekend. the thing is that it is an order of sisters that i am not interested in because they are really contemporary. well not really contemporary, just not orthodox. i've been experiencing a lot of spiritual dryness recently and have pretty much given up on prayer and not really been into much of anything spiritual. this retreat could help me with that and i would have a chance to see my spiritual director who i havne't seen in a year.

i need opinions....please pham

well going on a come and see retreat is just that....you go and see...you are not being asked to sign the dotted line...the response to spirtual dryness isn;t running away from prayer, its looking for even more meaningful times and ways to do it...plus your spirtual director could help u naviagate this spirtual aridity...PLUS maybe, just maybe God might be calling you to that community, to be leaven for renewal...just my $.03

in Christ,
fr. Matt

But, is your spiritual director trying to help you by inviting you to a retreat with unorthodox sisters? You may seek to grow closer to Christ in another way than that. I have been to those kinds of things, and they were just a waste of time because there was nothing to draw from them. Visits to the Blessed Sacrament were more helpful for me. But I can't tell you what you should do. If you feel that it would be a fruitful trip, I am not to tell you you shouldn't go. Is it with your diocese?

She isn't really my spiritual director....just a spiritual director for a week, each of my first three years of college. I sent her an e-mail saying I would go. I really don't have any intentions of joining this order, I think I will just use it as an opportunity to be with God and try to salvage my relationship before it goes down the tubes even further.

Then you have our prayers God bless.

That's true, but what I was talking about wasn't really a religious thing, where there were actual prayers and stuff. It was a group of nuns who didn't wear habits who told us about themselves, and we put on a play with them and did some other things. I really din't draw anything from it spiritually, but maybe what Andrea is talking about is more Christ-centered then this was.