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Discerning God’s Will – Themes and Content
Conditions for Discernment
- Images of God’s Will
- Sources of understanding God’s Will
- Holy Eucharist
- Sacred Scripture: Basics of Prayer
- Spiritual Direction
- Review of Spiritual Experience
- Dispositions: detachment, greater glory of God
- Subjective considerations
First and Second Modes: the Heart
- God reveals
- Certainty beyond doubt
- Responsiveness
- Attraction of the heart
- Movements of consolation/desolation
Third Mode: the Head
- Time of Tranquility
- Supernatural Prudence
- Reasons for and against
- Objectification
- Advising a person like me
- At the hour of my death
- Standing before Christ as my Judge
Fruitfulness
- What is Confirmation?
- Concluding the process
- Peace and joy
- Q and A
Discernment of Spirits (Introduction)
- What is discernment?
- Difference between psychological and spiritual
- Spiritual Consolation
- What to do in consolation
- Spiritual Desolation
- What to do in desolation
We also invite those just beginning their spiritual journey to learn more about how to discern God’s will in your life.