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title: Silence
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- personal
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- family
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My brother is about to begin a [30-day silent retreat][1], highly structured with most of his time devoted to specific forms of prayer.  Same as the Jebbies have been doing for the past 5 centuries.  I spent some time talking about it with him yesterday.  While I'm not enough of a mystic to talk in terms of "God's grace," I expect it will be an extremely rewarding experience; particularly so for someone like him who is naturally introspective but often unfocused (read: ADD poster child).

   [1]: http://www.jesuit.org/sections/sub.asp?SECTION_ID=189&SUBSECTION_ID=454#exp
