In this seven-day retreat, the directors are the mothers and fathers of the desert, whose wisdom has come down to us through the ages. Jesus tells readers that to find their lives they must lose them; the Desert Mystics took up this exhortation and lived it out radically. What such Desert Mystics as Antony the Great, Abba Moses and Evagrius can teach readers is to confront God on a most intimate level by confronting themselves fiercely and fully.
