On April 17, 2015, the Catholic Register published a story about a very different kind of retreat.  

While we are not allowed to re-publish the whole story,  we can post the first two paragraphs with a link to the rest of the story.

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Where strangers leave as friends

BY  MICHAEL CHEN, THE CATHOLIC REGISTER

April 17, 2015

Earlier this year, I had a “dilemma.” There were five retreats happening in the same month — some landing on the same weekends. Which retreat should I go on? There was a Chinese Catholic students’ retreat, a quad university chaplaincies including my alma mater, one with the University of Toronto, another one on discernment and the silent retreat with the York University chaplaincy. In the end, I chose the days of discernment retreat. Funny enough, I ended up making a decision to go on a retreat to learn how to make better life decisions.

Offered by Jesuits and the Jesuits Volunteers Canada, the spiritual retreat was not your typical weekend “getaway” from the city. It was in fact held at the Jesuits provincial headquarters near Queen’s Park in downtown Toronto. And it lasted a little more than a day. We started Friday evening and ended Saturday afternoon.

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