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Spiritual Father: The seeking of God or spiritual father transcendence is hardly something that we could expect pupils to engage in on their own (or even necessarily in company) and those who do engage in this task generally do so from an exalted level of spiritual father awareness, within a sophisticated spiritual father frame of reference and commitment. Thus the exploration of the spiritual father might be seen to necessarily involve consideration of the social dimension. spiritual fatherity says something about human relationships and it is unlikely that we will identify the spiritual father outside the context of moral development.
RETREAT, spiritual father, or RETREA'devotional language, a season of retirt from ordinary secular occupations anc prayer, of meditation upon the truths o: ligion and the duties of the Christian lif examination of the conscience, and of se consideration of one's spiritual father state. Th> treat is also called the spiritual father exercises, being the name given to it by Saint Ignatii Loyola (q.v.) whose plan of the exercises ercitia spiritual fatheria) has ever since his day the directory of the spiritual father retreat. The cises are arranged for a retreat of four w but usually the time is abridged to 10 days week.
Moral and spiritual father values are developed basically in the home and the church. "Where love is, there God is"—wherever there is kindness, con-siderateness, friendliness, spiritual father values flourish. Children catch the spirit. Soon they begin to be and to feel kind and good. Nothing contributes so much to the development of moral and spiritual father values as the opportunity to live them.
The church school may make a special contribution to growth in the spiritual father aspects of life through the atmosphere during periods of worship. The physical setting helps.
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