
U.S. Servicemen Hone Prayer Skills at Catholic Men’s Retreat in Europe
VALLENDAR, GERMANY – How to pray? How to grasp the beauty of a relationship with God? Those themes kindled a European retreat for U.S. Military-affiliated Catholic men over the weekend at the Schoenstatt Retreat Center in Vallendar, Germany. Nearly three dozen men from various military installations throughout Germany and an airman from RAF Lakenheath in Great Britain immersed themselves in the three days of prayer, spiritual conversation, Eucharistic adoration, confession, daily Mass, and on Saturday, Feb. 3, the Feast of St. Blaise, the blessing of throats.