Word: retreatism
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Becoming a nun typically takes seven to nine years. After the period of discernment, a woman enters a religious community as a postulant, and she reflects upon her vocation and helps with chores around the convent. At the end of what is primarily a yearlong spiritual retreat, the postulant and her advisers in the community decide whether she will become a novice and study Catholic theology and ministry for up to two years. She may then take her temporary vows. After an additional four to eight years during which she serves the convent's mission, she makes her final vows...
...many alleged resting places of the Holy Grail. In its crevices, visitors have stuck flowers, candles and coins. Our last stop: St. Non's Well, a clifftop medieval sacred spring. Offerings are left here, too; a local healer sends clients along for solace; and there's a Roman Catholic retreat house nearby. Whatever your bag, these places are balm for the soul. tel: (44-1348) 837443; archaeotours.co.uk
...Prof. Al-Rawi would likely have left, too, if it hadn't been for his interest in the AMS - and his commitment to the professors' union. "If we all leave, we condemn the next generation of Iraqis to backwardness," he told me. "Without an intelligentsia, our society will retreat to the Middle Ages...
...many alleged resting places of the Holy Grail. In its crevices, visitors have stuck flowers, candles and coins. Our last stop: St. Non's Well, a clifftop medieval sacred spring. Offerings are left here, too; a local healer sends clients along for solace; and there's a Roman Catholic retreat house nearby. Whatever your bag, these places are balm for the soul. 4-1348) 837443; archaeotours.co.uk
...Iraq. The present one clearly isn't working, and each of the alternatives - from "cut and run" through partition, finding a new strongman regime or bringing in the neighbors to sort things out - carries more peril than prospect. The Tet Offensive analogy offers a false choice between an ignominious retreat and a dogged determination to stay the course...