A Retreat for Beginners Saint Joseph Midway through her poignant “Office

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A Retreat for Beginners Saint Joseph Midway through her poignant “OfficeBy Ronald Knox Monsignor Ronald Knox preached scores, if not hundreds, of retreats. Of these, A Retreat for Beginners is singular: for, in Knoxs own declaration, it is addressed not to a crowd, but to one particular soulto you. The point of a retreat is that God means to do something in and to the soul; God, in this time of quiet, intends to conduct a spring cleaning of sorts in the retreatants spiritual life, illuminating a particular fault,