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Rules for Discernment

dotMagis Editor

Ignatius Loyola summarized his approach to discernment of spirits in two sets of Rules for Discernment, which he included in the Spiritual Exercises. The...

The Audacity of Discernment

Discernment Lisa Kelly

Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re hosting 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian...

Four Strategies for Discernment

Discernment Vinita Hampton Wright

In the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, there are various “rules for the discernment of spirits”—what we would simply call principles of wise discernment....

Unwritten Rules

Reflections Jim Manney

Recently, tempers flared in a close game between the Detroit Tigers and the Los Angeles Angels. The Angel pitcher got mad at a Tiger...

Introduction to Discernment of Spirits

dotMagis Editor

St. Ignatius of Loyola began to learn about the discernment of spirits while convalescing from serious battle injuries. He noticed different interior movements as...

Discernment of Spirits

Discernment of spirits is the interpretation of what St. Ignatius Loyola called the “motions of the soul.” These interior movements consist of thoughts, imaginings,...

Counterfeit Consolation

Discernment dotMagis Editor

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...

Autumn Panic

Spiritual Exercises Mary Ann Gessner

I was a city kid until I moved to rural Vermont in 1979, where even now there are more trees than people. The northeast...

Minding Our Thought Patterns

Discernment Vinita Hampton Wright

In St. Ignatius’s second set of rules for discernment—the rules pertaining to more subtle discernment, what we might call advanced discernment—he addresses, in rules...