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...d of Clergy Reform at the Time Monsieur Vincent Established the Ordination Retreats ...ly Book Two, Chapter Two: Section Two]]<br>The Beginning of the Ordination Retreats ...

<h2>The Beginning of the Ordination Retreats</h2> ...to many other bishops of the kingdom and elsewhere. They established these retreats in these various dioceses with most happy results. ...

<h2>Some Examples of the Blessings Brought About in France by the Ordination Retreats</h2> ...s of his heart of the blessings which God had bestowed upon the ordination retreats from their beginning. ...

...d of Clergy Reform at the Time Monsieur Vincent Established the Ordination Retreats ...ly Book Two, Chapter Two: Section Two]]<br>The Beginning of the Ordination Retreats... ...

<h2>The Ordination Retreats for the Benefit of Those Wishing to Receive Holy Orders</h2> ...ncent to come to Beauvais fifteen or twenty days before the next scheduled ordination, which was to be the coming September. Monsieur Vincent was careful to fulf ...

<h2>The Ordination Retreats in Italy, and the Great Results Produced by Them</h2> ...unicate and diffuse itself, we should not be surprised that the ordination retreats, which were so effective and beneficial, expanded readily outside of France ...

<h2>A Summary of What is Done During the Ordination Retreats, and the Regulations that Govern Them</h2> ...repare themselves to receive orders worthily. A director of the ordination retreats is charged with the general responsibility of the program. The candidates a ...

...d of Clergy Reform at the Time Monsieur Vincent Established the Ordination Retreats</h2> ...e help. Please allow your missionary to help us prepare our candidates for ordination." <ref>CED VI:53.</ref> ...

<h2>The Utility of Spiritual Retreats</h2> ...r practice of the virtues. He thought of nothing so effective as spiritual retreats. They dispose the soul to receive a new increase of grace, and prepare it t ...

== Vincent de Paul's Ordination == ...ogne, and some distance from Toulouse where he was then residing, for his ordination. ...

...was fifteen and a half years old. He took vows at age 18. The date of his ordination is unknown. Following ordination Louis worked in the seminary for 18 years, until 1781. During that year he ...

...er children. This Company of clergy was the result of the first ordination retreats, and now, in their turn, they were helping the participants in these same e ...lled to other dioceses to help in the ordination retreats, or in spiritual retreats which the bishops had organized for their pastors, vicars, and other clergy ...

...clergy. He instituted the ordination retreats, the clergy conferences and retreats to further this ideal. Although all these were helpful, they still did not ...of the clergy. Monsieur Vincent spoke to the cardinal about the ordination retreats and the clergy conferences already established in several places. ...

...or the Church. This not only preserved and confirmed the grace received in ordination, but helped priests to exercise all the functions of their sacred ministry ...of the human heart, he feared that the priests at the conclusion of these retreats would return to their worldly ways. Since, as the apostle says, they were o ...

...y-five years later, more than twenty thousand people participated in these retreats. Their general confessions and other exercises brought remedies to a countl In the beginning, in fact, not many people came to make the spiritual retreats. The numbers increased only little by little. The charity of Monsieur Vince ...

...t. Lazare during Vincent's lifetime. Numerous others made post-ordination retreats there and in other houses of the Congregation. ...

...open a new house in Monopoli, also for the purpose of giving missions and retreats. There is some evidence of conflict between him and the local superior. ...superior in Lecce, further south. There he continued to give missions and retreats; he had become well-known as a preacher and confessor. During his assignmen ...

...apter Twenty Five|Abelly Book One, Chapter Twenty Five]]<br>The Ordination Retreats for the Benefit of Those Wishing to Receive Holy Orders ...One/Chapter Twenty Six|Abelly Book One, Chapter Twenty Six]]<br>Spiritual Retreats for Various Groups of People ...

<h2>Monsieur Vincent's Thoughts on the Ordination Retreats</h2> ...of the development and the results of the [[Ordination Retreats|ordination retreats]], it would be appropriate to recall the way Monsieur [[Vincent]] looked up ...

...iest friends spoke to him one day about the large expense these ordination retreats must entail. He thought that the house of Saint Lazare was surely put to gr ...did not curtail his charities and limit the number of people who came for retreats. His reply to this was, "The treasures of God's Providence are inexhaustibl ...