ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 6, 2024 / 07:00 am
Four Catholic priests shared their reflections in answer to a simple but very important question for the life of faith: Why go on a spiritual retreat?
Father Antonio Domenech Guillén, a priest of the Diocese of Cuenca in Spain, said that “a retreat is always worthwhile, especially during Lent and Easter, those more focused times that help us bring our hearts closer to the Lord.”
“We always need it. Jesus says in the Gospel that ‘those who are healthy do not need a doctor, but only the sick,’ and if we recognize that we are sick, the Lord heals us every day, and a good way is to go on a retreat to be cured, like the person who goes to a hospital, to the doctor,” the priest explained.
“If you give your time to God, he multiplies it like all spiritual goods. Material things we part with, they are divided up. If we split the firewood two ways with the neighbor, we have half the firewood; if we share the inheritance with our brothers, we have less inheritance.”