Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every Catholic diocese has a retreat house consisting of a dormitory and refectory for visiting retreatants. There from one to three days the lay communicant usually meditates, prays, confesses, is sermonized. The retreatant contributes what he likes (average: $10). In the West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick...
...South Bend retreats are conducted on the University of Notre Dame campus by the Holy Cross Fathers who run that institution. Masses and other religious observances take place before Notre Dame's copy of the grotto at France's Lourdes. With big, 41-year-old Rev. Patrick Henry Dolan, C. S. C., as director, last week's retreat attracted 1,300 Catholics. As distinguished from retreatants elsewhere, they observed strict silence even at mealtimes, heard for the first time a nonreligious talk, by the University's Economics Professor Rev. William Augustine Bolger...
...Joseph's-in-the-Hills at Malvern, Pa. is the largest U. S. retreat, the only one in the world owned and operated by laymen...
...Malvern" (Laymen's Weekend Retreat League) purchased a 106-acre estate for $60,000 from Philadelphia's rich Coxe family, now have a fulltime retreat master, Rev. Dr. James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework...
Last week's Malvern retreatants were policemen, firemen and others unable to get off weekends. They, too, spent most of their time in silence, save during religious observances, meals, conversations with those in charge of the retreat. Their day began with a rising bell at 7 a. m. A prefect awakened each with "Let us bless the Lord," to which the correct reply was: "And give thanks to God." Followed Angelus, meditation, Mass, prayers and breakfast. At this and other meals, excellently cooked and served by nine buxom German nuns, a meditation reader read briefly. When he exclaimed "Prosit...