I, as the father of a family, go on an (SSPX) Ignatian retreat once every few years. Does my family gripe and complain that im away from work, not earning $, not there to help with the chores…no, they pray for me and are grateful in knowing that, through going on the retreat, I will be spiritually refreshed better able to perform my role as a husband and father.
Whoever started this thread is a low IQ individual.
1) It's only a few days, not 30. Try to disappear for 30 days and see what happens.
2) Do you not get paid vacation so that the $ continues coming in? Either way, it's only a week.
3) Major problem is not an individual priest taking a 30-day retreat, which I guess would be OK once every few years or so, but in having FOURTEEN priests all doing it at the same time. There's zero need for that. Imagine if both you AND your wife decided to disappear for 30 days at the same time? Who would continue to manage the household and attend to the needs of the children? Perhaps, if you have a toddler, he can attend to his own needs, make his own meals, go grocery shopping. Baby can change his own diapers. Etc. Just as young children can't feed themselves, the faithful cannot be nourished by the Sacraments without priests around. If there's a problem with the plumbing, perhaps the kids can see to it. If all the toilets get backed up, they can just go on the floor. Similarly, if some dying soul needs Last Rites, he can just hope for the best. This is inexplicable.
There's no comparison between one of two parents taking a 5-day retreat and this situation here.
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