The final retreat
Subtitle: a novel
By: Stephen Hough
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781909631281
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Belief and doubt; Priests; Priesthood; Diaries; Fiction
Description: "At the heart of The Final Retreat lies the question of how far the idea of a priest as a 'wounded healer' can be stretched. It is written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Apart from short daily meetings with a spiritual director, he speaks to no one. But he writes. Page after page, exploring the state of his soul, the loss of his vocation, his sexual addiction, and the events which are destroying his life."--Publisher's description.