The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-22
AT ST. MARY'S.
The Interesting and Restful
Retreat Opened Today.
Many TOpekans and Kansans
to College Town.

clergy of the Kansas City diocese
which is under the jurisdiction of
Bishop Lillis went to ST. Mary's col
lege, St Marys, Kan, today for their
continue until Thursday evening, Rev.
Simon A Ryan, S. j., acting direc-
tor Every parish in the Southwest
ern part of Missouri is represented, as
the diocese reaches east nearly as far
as Jefferson City and north beyond
Boonville. The large dormitory of the
college, Loyola Hall, will furnish
halls, lecture rooms, will afford all
other facilities needed.
This clergy gathering is the first. of
a series of retreats and conventions
which will be held at ST. Mary's col
lege during the vacation season. AS
soon as the clergy leave on Friday
morning, the Knights of Columbus of
rive for their state convention, which
will take place Saturday, June 20.
w. D. Jochenes of Wichita, as state
deputy, will preside, Leo Merger of
opening address will be delivered by
Very Rev. Francis M. Orr of Kansas
| City, Kan.
Arrangements for the convention
bacher, John F. Ryan of ST. Marys,
P. j. Monaghan of Topeka and George
Bordenkircher of Emporia. Sixty
councils located in all parts of the
state will send representatives. Last
years convention was also held at the
| college and because Of the unusual
| facilities unanimous vote was cast
to hold the convention there a second
time.
Immediately after the convention, a
retreat exclusively for Knights in
Kansas and lasting three days will be
entered upon by the Knights under
he of r.
man, S. J. This is the second year
that at the special request of the
knights a retreat exclusively for them
has been organized. 1t was the desire
to participate in the retreats at the
college and to cooperate with this
work which brought about the holding
of the convention at the college in
1914. No other instance is known of
a lay organization thus entering upon
a retreat after its convention.
Open to All Who Desire.
Three other retreats open to all
corners are announced for the sum-
mer One-a midweek gathering for
those who cannot be free at the week.
end-will take place Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, July 20 to
%, and will be conducted by Rev.
Francis J. O'Boyle, S. j., dean of the
theological faculty of ST. Louis uni
lecturer in medical jurisprudence.
Two in August, from the 9TH to the
9Th, and from the 21st to the 23d,
both weekend gatherings, that is in
Guiding Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day, will be in charge of Rev. Adolph
]. Kuhlman, S. J. 1t was announced
that the third retreat of the season
would be conducted by Rev. Michael
J. O'Connor, s. J., formerly of the ed
itoria1 staff of America and widely
known as an educator, writer and
preacher. His new duties, however,
as missionary and as head of the
large congregation of St. Francis
Xavier's church in st. Louis, have ne
cessitated a change and hence the
third retreat will be conducted by the
general director of all the retreats,
Rev. A. J. Huffman, S. ].
The four retreats of this summer
mark the seventh season of this work,
which was started at the college in
1909 and has since drawn men from
more than ten states to the little town
on the Kaw. Many residents of the
two Kansas Citys, of Leavenworth, st.
Joseph, Topeka, Sa1ina, Emporia, and
hundreds from smaller towns have
been in attendance The movement
and it's success have attra cted wide at
tention and stimulated similar efforts
in San Francisco, New Orleans, Cleve-
land and elsewhere.
The Bishop of Leavenworth has
been so we'll pleased with the good eff
fected that in an official letter he
tells all his clergy to urge their par
ishiOnerS to attend. Those who have
made a retreat declare enthusiast
ically that the three days give the best
vacation obtainable and not only give
relief from care, hurry and strain but
that nothing can compare with them
as lasting invigorator of soul and
body. The retreat is an intensive
course in the principles and habits of
thought and conduct which must
guide every honorable man. The pur-
pose is to attain to self-control, peace
and power. The method followed is
that of Ignatius of Loyola adapted to
actual conditions Of today
The circular sent out announcing
the retreats contains the words: ANY
one who wishes seriously to follow the
Exercises is welcome" AS a conse
quence in the past the gathering has
been made up of an alert eager body
of men, very democratic, however, in
it's composition. Bankers, lawyers.
editors, manufacturers commercial
travellers, clerks, 1aborers, farmers,
can be found among them and the
ages have varied from II to "a.
1t is held by those in charge that
the man who is up to the minute, is
clamoring for repose, opportunities
for quiet thinking, and an environ
ment where he can give himself to his
best thoughts, and where after having
gathered together his scattered forces
he can with conscious power get
deeper, steadier outlook on life and
then in cheerfulness and never-failing
attendance of thirteen hundred think
ing men would seem TO have justified
their contention.