exerciční dům

07:21 Mar 1, 2011 

Thanks for all your help and a really healthy debate.., This one to me "feels" the best in English, i.e. closest contemporary equivalent, where readers will most likely know what's going on ...here's one example from my home state (http://www.findthedivine.com/states/states_pa.html) I just want the readers to quickly understand, this is a brochure of sacral structures around the Zlin Region, and while spiritual "exercises" might be technically more correct at least from an historical linguistic perspective, for the average reader this might indeed be confusing. Cheers Lenka.

23:56 Feb 24, 2011 

Both retreat house and spiritual retreat house throw up Google references so these two terms appear to be bona fide English-language equivalents

20:29 Feb 24, 2011 

http://marriageretreats.webs.com/apps/links/
Yet another example

20:27 Feb 24, 2011 

I have also found the following link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_(spiritual)

18:41 Feb 24, 2011 

Actually, now I see that Wikipedia uses the general term "retreat house", as suggested by Jan/Lenka...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_Exercises_of_Ignatius...

16:38 Feb 24, 2011 

I've made myself misunderstood, I was joking in the original statement, they're not LINGUISTICALLY related, obviously...my second statement was that just maybe, technically, they may have dabbled in exorcism if needed, if little Vaclav was behaving uncontrollably...obviously this is not a house of exorcism :) please y'all...

16:26 Feb 24, 2011 

Fully agree with Tomas - this one has directly nothing to do with exorcism.
On the other hand, "retreat" (rekolekce) is quite close to "exercises" (exercicie) with a very slight difference: exercises usually stick more or less to Ignatius´s outline, while retreat is a bit more general term...

16:08 Feb 24, 2011 

Scott - Well whatever Ignatius came up with, it was certainly not related to exorcism. I fail to see how, just because both exercises and exorcism is "official" for Catholicism, it should mean it is closely related? :)

15:57 Feb 24, 2011 

wow lots of answers .....
@ Tomas: just because it's Let's be Picky Thursday, I would only mention that such a house may have certainly seen exorcisms, as it is a part of Catholicism too: http://www.trosch.org/chu/exorcism.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exorcists#List_of_Catho...
How could one have relaxed if convinced he were possessed? I'm curious...but actually just wasting time.

15:46 Feb 24, 2011 

OK then, I like humour of any kind :-))

15:45 Feb 24, 2011 

thanks Lenka, I threw that in for comic relief :).

15:39 Feb 24, 2011 

Be careful about the origin of the word, this is not exorcism, but spiritual exercise.