Return from the retreat for the religious of the diocese of Banjul

I returned on Monday evening from a wonderful retreat and am still trying to put all my thoughts together and tell you what it was about. Allow me a few days to just savor the experience. I was the only hermit (and the only male) making the retreat. 27 Sisters from various communities were also there and it sure seemed like I was a thorn among the roses. All of the Sisters were so wonderful and we became real brothers and sisters.
The retreat master (I am sure there is another word for that role nowadays but I don't know it) was Father Daniel Kamara, who is also Vicar General for the Diocese of Makeni, Sierra Leone. He is a real scripture scholar and led us on the path of Moses and Paul and applied them to our lives today. It gave me a new way to read the scriptures and the one question we all had is how could we have read the scriptures so many times and missed all those 'nuggets' that Fr. Daniel kept referring to. I know my lectio Divina will begin to change as I pull all that I have learned together and I look forward to sitting at my desk and begin to rewrite my notes.
Our wonderful Bishop Ellison came to the retreat house and celebrated mass on Sunday, spoke to all of us and then left to go home and pack for his trip to Ireland for a well deserved vacation and then he is off to Rome for meetings and will return here in late September.
I brought a camera with me and became so involved in the retreat that it just seemed I couldn't get the time to even take pictures.
I will begin putting more pictures on the blog tomorrow.
I ask your prayers that I may make what I have learned during the retreat a real part of my life.
Pax et Bonum!