L'Arche

Last night Ingrid and I had dinner with some special needs adults. There we met Rita, a girl our age. She was living in a monastery for the past 5 years, in almost total silence. (They only spoke on Sundays, and if they absolutely had to say something, they wrote it on paper.) She went a little cuckoo from being alone in her cell so much, so they sent her back into the regular world for a while. But she hopes to return to the Sisters of Bethlehem, make vows and live there FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE. In silence and solitude.