A Retreat for Lay People Benedict XVI has transformed time from a

has transformed time from a mere chronicle into the drama of salvation played out in each person and across the entire cosmos

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Ghéon returned to the Catholic faith he had abandoned as a teenager

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

A Retreat for Lay People Benedict XVI has transformed time from aBy Ronald Knox The laityin the words of Lumen gentiumlive 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