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A Guide to Ignatian Discernment: Exercising Our Spiritual Muscles

This series will walk us through the first fourteen rules of discernment. In intentionally moving through the rules, we hope to offer all of us a chance to ...

Four Strategies for Discernment - Ignatian Spirituality

Vinita Wright shares four helpful strategies to use when trying to make a good decision. These strategies for discernment are from the Spiritual Exercises ...

Discernment - Office of Ignatian Spirituality

Ignatian discernment is the spiritual practice of noticing the movements within your heart and soul, identifying the thoughts, desires, and emotions that ...

What is Ignatian Discernment? - Marquette University

Discernment involves prayer and weighing facts and feelings about the several good choices which ultimately leads to a choice about what is the best fit for an ...

Sixteen Discernment Exercises – how to discern the presence and ...

The JISA Discernment Series includes sixteen Discernment Spiritual Exercises from God's Field Hospital.

The Habit of Discerning - Division of Mission & Ministry

For Ignatius, a key element of discerning is the exercise of imagination. In doing the examen, he suggests we use our imaginations to elicit the feelings that ...

Exercising the Gift of Discernment - Kingdom Change Ministries

3. Experience. The more you exercise your gift of discernment, the more you become acquainted with the devil's schemes. When you have ...

Discernment: the good, the bad … the Ignatian - Thinking Faith

It was precisely an exercise in discernment of spirits that enabled Rob Marsh SJ to offer this Ignatian introduction to the practice that ...

EXERCISE IN PERSONAL DISCERNMENT - Fall Creek Abbey

Finally, weigh with your heart the alternative you've chosen. How does it feel to you? Do you experience consolation, a sense of “rightness” about this decision ...

Discernment: Making Inspired Choices - Loyola Press

Discernment is a time-honored practice in the Christian tradition. In essence, discernment is a decision-making process that honors the place of God's will in ...

Exercising discernment - Creation Ministries International

As Christians, we have the responsibility to exercise discernment, which is an important and rational characteristic of the spiritually mature ...

An Ignatian Framework for Making a Decision

AllDiscernmentExamenReflectionsSpiritual Exercises · Reflections · Finding the ... This is the third of three states of the discernment. First, you asked ...

Discernment | Practicing Our Faith

Discernment is the intentional practice by which a community or an individual seeks, recognizes, and intentionally takes part in the activity of God in ...

Some Ignatian principles for making prayerful decisions

... discernment as well as in helping others discern what God is calling them to. ... Chanon gave Ignatius the book Exercises for the Spiritual Life written by ...

Spiritual Discernment - The Way - Jesuit Institute

It will help retreatants to discern how God was speaking to them during their prayer. Without inner movements there is no discernment in the Spiritual Exercises ...

Vocational Discernment Exercises - Diocese of Lansing

Write a list of the greatest desires or passions of your heart, from greatest to the least. Include things like what you like to do such as cooking, hiking, etc ...

Discernment in Spiritual Life - School of Mary

I have to say that St. Ignatius, when he conceived the Spiritual Exercises, dedicated a great deal of effort to clarifying discernment within the process of the ...

Discernment Exercise: Pushing Beyond Comfort Zones

Here's an exercise that's rather instructive. First, identify the limits of your comfort zone. Second, name some of what you are missing in life ...

Exercising Holy Discernment - Beacon Lights

You need discernment. Scripture says you need this skill to understand sermons (1 Cor. 2:13–14), to partake of the Lord's Supper properly (1 Cor. 11:28–29), and ...

What Is Discernment? - Ligonier Ministries

But when exercised in love, discernment can be the surgical scalpel in spiritual surgery that makes healing possible. Again, discernment ...