St. Ignatius on Overcoming Desolation
Ignatius offers a series of “rules,” or principles, which can help us work against this depressing and downward movement of desolation.
Consolation and Desolation - Ignatian Spirituality
As we learn to recognize when we are in desolation and consolation, we can respond accordingly: changing course (through prayer, community, discernment, ...
“Rule #4: Spiritual Desolation” by St. Ignatius of Loyola
In like manner to spiritual consolation, St. Ignatius does not define spiritual desolation but rather gives a list of its qualities. A person may experience one ...
Eight Tools for Combatting Desolation - Ignatian Spirituality
When we go hiking in a wilderness of spiritual desolation, eight tools for combatting the desolation should be put in our backpacks.
Dealing with spiritual desolation -
In the fifth rule, Ignatius notes that the bad spirit is at work during times of desolation; therefore, we should not listen to pulls toward ...
Jesuit 101: Consolation and Desolation
To better understand these important concepts of Ignatian spirituality, I'll refer to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola for a ...
Is there a Catholic prayer to St. Ignatius to fight off spiritual desolation?
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is offense, let me bring pardon. Where there is ...
“Where y'at?!”: Consolation and Desolation - FOCUS Equip
St. Ignatius of Loyola has two spiritual categories that can help us to reflect on this question: consolation and desolation.
“Rule #7: Spiritual Desolation: A Time for Resistance” by St. Ignatius ...
"The seventh: let one who is in desolation consider how the Lord has left him in trial in his natural powers, so that he may resist the various agitations ...
Ignatian spirituality: How to deal with desolation
Oftentimes when we are in spiritual desolation (feeling dry in prayer and distant from God), the Evil Spirit will tempt us by telling us ...
We move further into St. Ignatius' Rules for Spiritual Discernment this week. Last week I discussed Rule 3, which concerned spiritual consolation.
What Is Spiritual Desolation and How Do I Get Out of It?
Ignatius, who says in his Sixth Rule: "… it is very advantageous to change ourselves intensely against the desolation itself, as by insisting ...
Ascension - St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast we... - Facebook
St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast we celebrate today, offers a series ... Ignatius on Overcoming Desolation - Ascension Press Media. For St. Ignatius ...
Consolation and Desolation – Heart of the Spiritual Exercises
Episode 10: Consolation and Desolation – Heart of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius - /w Fr. Anthony Wieck S.J. Fr. Anthony Wieck and ...
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us, so in desolation it is the bad, with whose counsels we cannot take a course ...
Ignatian spirituality: The seventh and eighth rules -
Father Gallagher notes, “When humbly and courageously resisted, spiritual desolation becomes, indeed, a crucial spiritual lesson, teaching hope ...
THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING OF ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
Fr. Timothy Gallagher uses the teachings of St. Ignatius to show that because God is a good and loving God is the precise reason why we undergo desolation.
Understanding Three Major Reasons for Spiritual Desolation with St ...
Desolation is the name given by St. Ignatius of Loyola to the inner state characterized by darkness, dryness, torpor, agitation, melancholy, ...
Praising in Consolation and Praying in Desolation - Life Teen
What is Spiritual Consolation? ... St. Ignatius said consolation is when, “Some interior movement in the soul causes the soul to come inflamed with love of its ...
I am in desolation, please help : r/Catholicism - Reddit
In Jim Manney's book "Ignatian Spirituality AZ" he explains that when in a state of Desolation, do the opposite. Don't feel like praying?-PRAY MORE!