"We are now on our way to the Convent. Like the church, the chapel and the cathedral it is a house of God, and a place where, together with my sisters... I too spent a happy year of my life dedicating myself to the worship of the Lord. It is a place of great spiritual beauty. A place where my love for the Lord was encouraged and nurtured, and where I discovered I no longer needed the distraction offered by a man's temporal love. It is not an easy matter to abandon the affection of physical or. She said her parents would be leaving Friday evening and coming back on Sunday. She told me she would call me were her parents had left and the siblings were in bed and I could then come over. She called me at about 8pm and said to come over around 9pm. At a little after 9, I knocked on the door and she opened it and told me to come in. She was wearing a bathrobe and what looked like flannel PJ’s underneath. I took off my coat and we sat on the couch and talked awhile and then I moved. " I was happy with the idea. So, while she got me a padded stool to sit on and then went to prepare by washing her hands, I stripped down to my underwear. “Just as well I showered and put clean things on,” I thought as I sat and waited. Maggie returned a moment or two later, with a pitcher of iced water and a couple of tumblers. "We'll be thirsty later," she explained. She switched on a CD player, which provided a gentle background sound of what you might describe as 'New Age' music. She placed. And that night was quickly approaching and everyone was getting very excited about the whole thing. It really would be a celebration to remember and a wonderful way to mark the end of the semester, the beginning of the summer vacation period and the first six months of The New Way.For Vanessa Benson, however, the most exciting thing about those three weeks was the pending arrival of her mother and step-father on the Thursday before that last Friday of the school semester. She hadn’t seen them.