A retreat preacher's stipend is set according to arrangements made between parish and preacher, possibly along the lines of a daily fee of $100.00.

June 1st- 8th 2003 Ottawa, Ontario Father Joseph Bill is a devoted priest and powerful mission retreat preacher of the Vincentian Congregation.

For many years he served as an Abbot Assistant to the Abbot of Solesmes and held the role of retreat preacher and confessor.

Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds.