A Retreat for Beginners Maritain True Leadership teaches a different

True Leadership teaches a different model

in my material helplessness than any prisoner in the camp

(Isaiah 12:3)

unenlightened souls whose Redeemer bore the punishment that makes them—and us—whole

A Retreat for Beginners Maritain True Leadership teaches a differentBy 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,