On January 17-19 this year, a New Year’s retreat for women will take place at the Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Lorinčík near Košice, in southern Slovakia, under the motto: “I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me” (Ps 40:2). The retreat will be led by Fr. Paweł Wojnowski OCD and Sr. M. Benediktína Fečová from the Košice community of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy.