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Their retreats were typically 3–4 days, and featured much silence and prayer. [6] At the end of the 19th century, and in the first years of the 20th century, retreats began to spread among the working classes and beyond those of notable devotion. These retreats were less ascetic in character, and included more conversation and leisure. They ...
After intense prayer and much thought, it was established that the theme of the retreat would be based on the Scripture passage found in the Gospel of Luke 24:13-35, the Emmaus Reading. [ 2 ] In early 1985, Fr. Fetscher of St. Louis asked Jim Loretta from St. Louis Catholic Church, to look at starting a men's version of the Emmaus Retreat ...
It was named the Manresa Retreat House Centre, after Manresa in Spain, where the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius of Loyola stayed in solitude for a year. It opened in November 1946 and had accommodation for eighteen retreatants. [3] As soon as it opened, demand for retreats was more numerous that the centre could accommodate.
Cistercian monks praying the Liturgy of the Hours in Heiligenkreuz Abbey. The Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: Liturgia Horarum), Divine Office (Latin: Officium Divinum), or Opus Dei ("Work of God") are a set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours, [a] often also referred to as the breviary, [b] of the Latin Church.
Hermitage "Our Lady of the Enclosed Garden" in Warfhuizen, the NetherlandsA pustyn (Russian: пустынь) or kalyva (Greek: καλύβα) or anapat'(Armenian: անապատ []) is a small sparsely furnished cabin or room where a person goes to pray and fast alone in the presence of God.
Jerusalem Retreat Center is a Catholic charismatic renewal centre in Thalore, Thrissur city. The centre is managed by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, Thrissur. The centre comes under Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur. [1] [2] [3] Jerusalem retreat centre occupies a unique position among the spiritual pilgrim centres in India.
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