A Retreat for Lay People

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The laity-</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>in the words of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lumen gentium</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-live in the ordinary circumstances of family and social life from which the very web of existence is woven. Where in that web is there room for anything resembling a retreat? Is a retreat for lay people practical let alone possible? In these two dozen conferences Monsignor Ronald Knox answers these questions resoundingly in the affirmative addressing the foundations of the Christian life the sacraments and the virtues; the life and death of our Blessed Lord; and the practical needs and problems of the everyday and their amelioration in the believer's relationship with God. For the laity are not intended for some mean state of mediocrity of just about good enough in the spiritual life. On the contrary they are meant to strive for perfection-to be perfect as their heavenly Father is perfect gladly taking up their crosses and running down the way of love after their Lord Jesus Christ.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On par with Knox's retreats for priests and his In Slow Motion volumes the Holy Spirit-enlivened preaching of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Retreat for Lay People </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is certain to illuminate the heart's darkness and stir the soul's dullness with the fiery breath of hope.</span></p><p><br></p>