A Retreat for Beginners Saint Joseph Some sixty years later

Some sixty years later

he received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française

the forthright Longinqua (on Catholicism in the United States)

eager to embrace its mission to bring the glad tidings of salvation to all men

Midway through her poignant “Office for a Dead Child

A Retreat for Beginners Saint Joseph Some sixty years laterBy Ronald Knox Monsignor Ronald Knox preached scores, if not hundreds, of retreats. Of these, A Retreat for Beginners is singular: for, in Knoxs own declaration, it is addressed not to a crowd, but to one particular soulto you. The point of a retreat is that God means to do something in and to the soul; God, in this time of quiet, intends to conduct a spring cleaning of sorts in the retreatants spiritual life, illuminating a particular fault,