Howard Gray, SJ, is a spiritual director, educator, writer, and popular speaker. Here he describes how Ignatius came upon the central insight of his...
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By William A. Barry, SJ
From An Ignatian Spirituality Reader
Later Ignatius had other occasions to discern "spirits" and to note how the evil spirit cloaks...
Discernment of spirits is the interpretation of what St. Ignatius Loyola called the “motions of the soul.” These interior movements consist of thoughts, imaginings,...
Ignatius Loyola summarized his approach to discernment of spirits in two sets of Rules for Discernment, which he included in the Spiritual Exercises. The...