Homecoming meal before the beginning of the retreat after the postulants from Maria Engelport arriveOne of the conferences given over the course of the retreat by several canons of our InstituteOur retreatants are grouped on the leftThe retreat took place during the novena before the feast of the Sacred Heart. Every evening the whole community gathered in front of our statue of the Royal Heart to pray the novenaThe day before they receive the habit, our postulants leave their hair down all day. We have established this little tradition in our community because the next day they will make the sacrifice of their hair, which will then be hidden by their veil.On the last evening of the novena, the statue of the Royal Heart was moved to the Cloister to be given greater honor for the solemn celebration.
