We can get off to as good a start as any by familiarizing ourselves with St. Peter Julian’s RETREAT NOTES. As he meant them for no eyes other than his own, he jotted them down with utmost candor and merciless honesty. Nowhere else does he reveal so clearly the key thoughts and sentiments which, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, oriented his soul to God and to sainthood. To understand these NOTES and profit by them, we should read and study them in the spirit in which they were written. They are not the studied expositions of a professor bent on exploring or solving theological problems; they are merely the authentic record of what St. Peter Julian experienced in his soul as he communed with his Eucharistic Lord and of what he resolved to do for Him.