In the spiritual training camp – Diepresse.com

At the very last moment I actually take a certain nervousness. Almost three days without contact to the outside world, without a cell phone, without a word. Short panic. Should I do something secular shortly? In the drugstore? In the bookstore? But for what is imminent, I don’t need new nail polish or reading material. At least stop at one last Instagrampost. You don’t want to be missed unnecessarily. « Then I’m gone … go to the monastery. You will read about it. »

Strictly speaking, that is not true. Even if that was the imagination when I was persuaded to silence for three days, then to write about it: thick monastery walls, a spartan cell, ice -cold water and rosary From four in the morning or something like that. In contrast, the Cardinal King House looks like a luxury hotel-and also very much on this side. Founded as a retreat in 1884, the program has become a lot wider in the past decades. To this day, however, one rely on spirituality and retreats: over a weekend, over a week or even longer – and also individually with the possibility to rent in the part of the house for a few nights in which the silence rules to withdraw, to reflect and be silent.