two weeks ago in tahoe with my methodist man from the fairfield church and while i was there, hugh burrows emailed me , and he said he wanted to do the next program on spiritual retreat, he did not know that i was at a spiritual retreat, in fact he was going to host the program this morning but he had to go out of town, so he asked me to do it so i'm delighted to have this, dr. thomas powell who is over at the parish retreat. tell us a little bit about the retreat center and the work that you do. >> the place was founded in 1925 in the jesuits at santa clara university which was santa clara college back then decided that they wanted to have a place where at that time, men could go on retreat, it wasn't until the 1960s that women started coming, so 1925, through febres seventh, the first mass was celebrated at the retreat house, in the one building that was there and the house still stands and that is where my office is, so since then, literally thousands and thousands of people have come on retreat and normally there's retreats that start on friday and they conclude shortly after lunch on