A Retreat for Beginners Saint Joseph Some sixty years later

Some sixty years later

John Steinbeck and Katherine Anne Porter

Greene has refuted the absurdity of evil with the paradox of the cross—the instrument of that mysterious Love which

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

whose writings hold such treasures on praying effectively that their loss would be a tragedy for the people of God

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,