"retreat"

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Dr Sergej Glebov wrote:
>Vyezdnoi seminar immediately revokes a scholarly meeting. Since Russian
>Orthodox Church did not have a developed tradition of retreats (apart from
>poezdki po sviatym mestam or "na molenie") there is no clear equivalent. It
>seems that "vstrecha" ili "sobranie tserkovnoi gruppy (obshchiny)" is the
>best option.
Sovershenno verno! I, for one, have experience of using and hearing
both "vyezdnyj seminar", "vstrecha", "sobranie", in exactly the same
situation that Dr Glebov describes.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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