A retreat is a “spiritual spa for your soul” – Falling in love with God anew! It is an anointed time of special graces!
A retreat weekend spent in blessed silence and prayer offers the infinite graces of God’s loving mercy in the powerful Sacraments of the Holy Eucharist and Rite of Reconciliation. Enriched by spiritual conferences, retreatants find this a time to re-establish values, deepen joys, and recognize once again God’s loving Divine Providence in their lives!
"Retreat for Beginners” by Monsignor Ronald Knox
Deus Books - Paulist Press, 1960 (1964)
"What is the point of a spiritual retreat? I should put it like this – that God means to do something in and to your soul. It may be something quite little. But then, of course, that little might be a thin end of a wedge. He wants to do a sort of tidying-up, a sort of Spring cleaning in your life. Perhaps He will open your eyes to some fault. Perhaps He will then begin to wean you away from some bad habit, some dangerous friendship, or perhaps He will give you a glimpse of some way you hadn’t thought about it hitherto – in which, later on, He means you to serve Him.”