So the theme of the retreat is taken from Ezekiel 36:28 "You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people and I will be your GOD." This retreat (or they said a journey) focus on the journey of Israeli going out from Mesir, and Moses is our focus.
On Friday, we meet up at Newton Circus at 8.30 AM. Then the bus leave at 9 AM. It takes about more than 3 HOURS to go to Johor! Actually, there is a long queue on the Malaysia Immigration, so that's why it takes a very long time to go there. We stay at MAJODI Centre, it is shorten from Malaka Johor Diocese Center. The spiritual director comes from Indonesian, Father Yohanes Lulus Widodo, we call him "Romo Lulus".
After we have some rest, lunch after long journey from Singapore, we have ice breaking session. And in this session, we know that Romo Lulus can DANCE! Afterthat, we make a group cheers and flag for outing session tomorrow. Then we have opening mass with Rm Lulus. He makes his homily very fun and one more thing that we know from Romo that he can play MAGIC! He brings the homily using his turtle, spider, eyeglasses, bird, etc. So FUN.. haha..
So the first session is started, Romo brings the session. He mentions there are 4 types of people, first he can not do it and he does not want to do, Second he can not and but wants to do. Third, he can do it but he does not want to do it. FOURTH, which is the best, HE CAN DO IT AND HE WANTS TO DO IT. He says, maybe now (during session) we can not see the four types of people, we will see tomorrow when we have our outbound session, some will say the weather is hot, tired, etc..
After that, we have our dinner. Oh ya talking about food, our special menu for lunch is FISH with Curry flavor. So you can imagine as if you eat fish with prata. lol. Dinner is better because we have soup, fish (again but not Curry flavor), veggie, and fruits. In this dinner, I start to know each other and actually most of them are working people. So I may get networking from them.. =)
Afterward, we have adoration time. This is when we remember in our Holy Communion and our God Redeemer. Actually the room is very cold, and I decide to bring my jacket. Suddenly, I know that the girl besides me feel very cold because she is directly below the AirCon so I decide to give up my jacket. Haha.. I do not know is it the good news or bad news if she read this. lol.
Then it finishes at 10.30 PM. Quite early, I think (because usually I sleep at more than 12 AM in Singapore) but I decide to take bath and going to pray at Grotto. until 11.30 PM then I sleep after that.. hahaha.
Continue on the NEXT POST for day 2..
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