Re.retreat

[Greg Thomson]

At 16:48 -0500 07/11/01, cheryl07 wrote:
>"dan e. downey" wrote:
>>
>>  "Retreat" is an evangelical colloquial term.  "
>
>Ummm, Dan, it's not a big point, but unless you mean only that "retreat"
>is used in Russia as an evangelical term, I have to differ with you.  In
>at least my personal experience, retreat was a Catholic term/idea
>long before Protestants began using it.  If that isn't what you meant,
>I apologize for seeming to jump on it.
>Cheryl Boone-Delgado

Eighteen years ago, I recall visiting a retreat center run by some
Oblate Fathers near Williams Lake, B.C., which featured what they
called a "pustynie house". I understood that particular retreat form
to be Russian Orthodox in origin. In that small, one-room "pustynie
house" was a large cross, a large Bible, and some bread and water,
and there was a printed program for private meditations on Bible
readings, and so on. Is there no such Russian Orthodox custom? I
wonder then, from whence did the Oblates inherit the apparently
Russian name for that particular retreat?
Greg Thomson

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