Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling Episcopalians nominal Christians is like the pot calling the kettle black. How many of today's Presbyterians would be considered nominal, if not heretical, by their precursor, John Calvin? It is also hard to understand how he can call a church which runs schools, hospitals, retreat houses, etc., out of all proportion to their small numbers, and also provides a Sacrament for those who feel the need of it, uninterested in moral problems...
...Bernardino foothills, but the 55 couples in the dining room said not a word. For meal after meal-at breakfast, lunch and dinner-they ate in silence. Then, at lunch on the third day, the room was suddenly filled with a din of voices. The silence of the retreat was over...
...fourth retreat for married couples sponsored by the California chapter of the Holy Family Retreat Association (founded three years ago in Phoenix, Ariz.). The idea is snowballing among Roman Catholic dioceses. In St. Paul...
Minn., some 10,000 couples have registered ; every parish in the city will have a one-day family retreat this fall. Last week, the Arrowhead Springs retreat barely over, reservations were pouring in for a new one next month in Santa Monica...
Miniature Church. It was only 18 years ago that the Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler of Washington, D.C., a Benedictine priest, transplanted the custom from Europe. Father Schmiedeler, 61, director of the Family Life Bureau for the National Catholic Welfare Conference, saw in the man & wife retreat a promising way to foster the concept of the family as a church in miniature. At Arrowhead Springs he was on hand to conduct the retreat in person. Participants spent three days together in spiritual lectures and devotional services. During the intervals, they meditated or read books selected for their attention to family problems. Sample...