The two key movements in Ignatian spirituality are consolation and desolation. These terms can be difficult to understand as their meanings seem to shift...
Jason Vaz, SJ, provides some helpful images to distinguish consolation and desolation in a recent post at the igNation blog. He concludes with questions...
We need Ignatius’s first set of rules for discernment because desolation is a common experience. We need his second set because of another unwelcome...