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1 The retreat will go on from Wednesday to Friday.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 3
2 For just and unjust, for saint and sinner alike, may this retreat be a memorable one.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 3
3 I need hardly remind you that during the days of the retreat all boys are expected to preserve a quiet and pious demeanour and to shun all loud unseemly pleasure.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 3
4 Year after year, for much longer than any of you, my dear little boys, can remember or than I can remember, the boys of this college have met in this very chapel to make their annual retreat before the feast day of their patron saint.
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5 And if, as may so happen, there be at this moment in these benches any poor soul who has had the unutterable misfortune to lose God's holy grace and to fall into grievous sin, I fervently trust and pray that this retreat may be the turning point in the life of that soul.
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6 And still as the years roll by, bringing with them changes for good and bad, the memory of the great saint is honoured by the boys of this college who make every year their annual retreat on the days preceding the feast day set apart by our Holy Mother the Church to transmit to all the ages the name and fame of one of the greatest sons of catholic Spain.
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7 But, above and beyond all, let this retreat be one to which you can look back in after years when maybe you are far from this college and among very different surroundings, to which you can look back with joy and thankfulness and give thanks to God for having granted you this occasion of laying the first foundation of a pious honourable zealous christian life.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 3