About this place
The House of Spiritual Life is a retreat and prayer house of the Diocese of Masan located in Jangma-myeon, Changnyeong-gun. The Catholic Church directory in Korea classifies it not as a parish or mission station but specifically as a “retreat/prayer house,” and the Korean Catholic Bishops’ Conference also lists the same site among retreat and prayer houses of the Diocese of Masan. Its essential identity therefore lies not in territorial parish jurisdiction but in serving as a diocesan Catholic space for prayer, retreat, and spiritual reflection.
A retreat house offers a setting in which people can step away from ordinary routines and focus on prayer, silence, meditation on Scripture, and communal programs. The House of Spiritual Life can likewise be understood as a place prepared for Catholics of the Diocese of Masan and other visitors to review their faith and find interior rest. Because individual programs and access arrangements may change over time, the most stable way to understand the place is through its continuing role as an officially recognized diocesan retreat facility rather than through a changing schedule of activities.
History & origins
In the Diocese of Masan’s 2022 regular clergy appointments, the entry for the House of Spiritual Life is explicitly marked as “newly established,” together with the assignment of a priest. This document provides a firm point at which the house can be identified as an officially constituted pastoral and spiritual facility within the diocesan structure. This research did not find official documentation that would allow the history of the property or its earlier uses to be traced further back.
After its establishment, the facility was listed in the Catholic Church directory in Korea as a “retreat/prayer house” of the Diocese of Masan, and the Korean Catholic Bishops’ Conference included the same name and location in its nationwide guide to retreat and prayer houses. These listings show that the site came to be recognized not as a temporary venue for a single diocesan program but as a continuing facility dedicated to retreat and prayer.
The history that can currently be verified therefore centers on its formal establishment by the diocese and its subsequent integration into national Catholic directories and retreat information. Details for which reliable sources were not found—such as a separate founder, construction chronology, or lineage from an earlier institution—have not been added. The account is limited to the documented process by which a place for diocesan spiritual ministry was formally created and established.
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