retreat (Latin: retrahere, to withdraw) Withdrawal from the usual surroundings and business distractions to a place set apart for solitude, meditation, self-examination, and amendment of life. Under a competent director the retreatants follow certain spiritual exercises, like those of Saint Ignatius, which enable one to grasp more clearly the simple truths of religion about God … Continue reading “retreat”
RETIREMENT
RETIREMENT The state of a person who quits a public station in order to be alone. Retirement is of great advantage to a wise man. To him “the hour of solitude is the hour of meditation. He communes with his own heart. He reviews the actions of his past life. He corrects what is amiss. … Continue reading “RETIREMENT”
Reticulated Work
Reticulated Work (Lat. opus reticulatum=network), masonry constructed with diamond- shaped stones, or square stones placed diagonally. In the city of Rome this mode of decorating the surface of a wall is generally characteristic of the period of the early empire; it was frequently imitated in Romanesqume work in the tympanum of a door-way, especially in … Continue reading “Reticulated Work”
Reticence
Reticence RETICENCE.See Reserve. Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Rethel, Alfred
Rethel, Alfred Born at Aachen, 1816; died at Düsseldorf, 1859. He combined in a brilliant and forcible manner the idealism of the Romantics and Italians, the realism of Dürer, a sense of the monumental and strict adherence to nature. He might have been the greatest of German painters, but ill health crippled his energy. Recommended … Continue reading “Rethel, Alfred”
Retentiveness
Retentiveness (Lat. re + tendere, to hold) The mind’s capacity to retain and subsequently revive earlier experiences. See Memory. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Retention of Sins
Retention of Sins re-tenshun, (, krateo, to lay fast hold of (Joh 20:23)): The opposite of the remission of sins. Where there was no evidence of repentance and faith, the community of believers were unauthorized to give assurance of forgiveness, and, therefore, could only warn that the guilt of sin was retained, and that the … Continue reading “Retention of Sins”
Retaliation
Retaliation RETALIATION (Mat 5:38-48, Luk 6:27-45).1. The lex talionis must have been part of the most primitive Semitic law, as it was current in almost identical words in Babylon and Canaan. The Code of Hammurabi prescribes ( 196, 200): If a man has caused the loss of a gentlemans eye, his eye shall one cause … Continue reading “Retaliation”
Retain
Retain re-tan: Several Hebrew words are thus translated: , hazak, to hold fast (Jdg 7:8; Jdg 19:4; Job 2:9 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) hold fast); Mic 7:18); , acar, to shut up (only in Dan 10:8, Dan 10:16; Dan 11:6); , tamakh, to hold (Pro 3:18; Pro 4:4; Pro … Continue reading “Retain”
retable
retable A shelf or panel of wood, stone, terra-cotta, or silver, raised above the rear of an altar to support lights, ornaments, etc. It is often richly ornamented and depicts sacred scenes in painting or bas-relief. The face of the piece is usually called the retable, the back known as the counter-retable. Fuente: New Catholic … Continue reading “retable”