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So I’ll delete those five brilliant (believe me) paragraphs and see if I can finish instead by engaging with the good spirit a little more.I am looking at my computer and hesitating to open this file. How Ignatian Spirituality Gives Us a Way to Discern God's Will by David Fleming, SJ. Running in parallel, I am aware of the bright winter sky and glowing Oxford stonework in my peripheral vision. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Gensic explains the ways that congregations are drawn into the life and work of the Trinity by prayerfully engaging such a process. Share on Facebook Tweet Widget Google+. I have been focused on the strategy of rejection; I have been fascinated by the bad spirit. But, while the bad spirit is fascinating, the good spirit tends not to draw attention to itself: like the God it serves, it specialises in humility and gives itself freely and without fuss.Discernment of spirits gives us the practical opportunity to become aware of the many microseconds making up our lives, to tease apart the different motions that make them up, and then to choose to lay aside those from the bad spirit and engage more with those from the good. The light wants to lift my heart. But I refuse, in my fascination, to give the bad spirit more airtime than it deserves. To accomplish this, the author walks the reader through the basic principles of Ignatian spirituality and discernment, making suggestions for how these can impact congregational decision-making along the way. But brute force opposition has failed me for weeks. So exactly what do I mean by micro-choices?Discernment – discernment of spirits – is first of all about telling apart the motions arising from these three sources and, in his ‘rules for discernment’ (and elsewhere), Ignatius gives an eloquently pithy catalogue of what the work of the good and bad spirit looks like in the human heart, in terms of the motions they inspire. People differ and the good and bad spirit have many strings to their bows but I think I can advance a general rule of thumb here: when making micro-choices – and macro-choices, for that matter – we do best to engage with the good spirit rather than oppose the bad. The term discernment often gets used these days to refer to two quite distinct but related things: making big apostolic decisions, life choices, and such – what Ignatius called ‘election’; and the more humble practice of discernment of spirits. Discernment blog . Ignatian spirituality has been called a ‘mysticism of choice’ and that is true. St Ignatius developed his Spiritual Exercises to help us make good decisions. Learn more about discernment and the discernment process at Loyola Press.
... Discernment: Discernment is rooted in the understanding that God is ever at work in one's life, "inviting, directing, guiding, and drawing" one "into the fullness of life." There is the hint of a memory of walking down a road under a similar sky, head up, having just finished a dissertation. Teaching Discernment: A Pedagogy for Presenting Ignatian Discernment of Spirits Paperback – August 1, 2019 by Timothy M. OMV Gallagher (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings. But it means more than it being a methodology for making big decisions: at the heart of Ignatian spirituality there is a developed practice of discernment. Ignatian spirituality has been described as a spirituality of finding God's will for better decision making. In “Ignatius: A Guide for Congregational Discernment,” Benjamin Gensic notes the various Christian discernment models available for churches and then develops in detail an Ignatian framework for communal discernment. I want to try and write some more of this article. An approach to making decisions . But it means more than it being a methodology for making big decisions: at the heart of Ignatian spirituality there is a developed practice of discernment. And the good spirit is worth engaging with even then, or especially then, when creativity is so needed.Now I’m in danger of falling into my own trap here. Rules for becoming aware and understanding to some extent the different movements which are caused in the soul, the good, to receive them, and the bad to reject them. While bedridden from a serious injury, St. Ignatius Loyola began to wonder about the state of his own soul and the different feelings he experienced while making decisions. I feel compelled to write about all the many ways that the bad spirit fascinates and monopolises attention. ), you would think we would all take every chance to dwell there. Even though it hinges in my microsecond on the evocation of a 32-year-old memory it leads somewhere new and unstuck. He wrote the following r… Both are practical skills; both are aimed at making choices, either big decisions or the small stuff of moment-by-moment, hour-by-hour, day-by-day practicality – what I think of as micro-choices. How to Make Choices with Confidence and Clarity by J. Michael Sparough, SJ. It only takes a minute. I am feeling discouraged and thinking that of course I am going to run aground again in no time. Something Clicks - A monthly newsletter for making good decisions. As you can imagine, these numbers represent a lot of work. Join him in a careful consideration of ‘one particular microsecond of one particular life, and one paragraph of many where Ignatius catalogues the way the good and bad spirit work’, and see an example of Ignatian discernment at work.The bad spirit is clamouring for my attention again: ‘but there you go pretending, against the evidence, that good spirit can always be found alongside the ubiquitous bad… such wishful thinking!’ If I trust my experience as a spiritual director, the evidence is that the good spirit can almost always be found even when the work of the bad spirit seems all-encompassing: there are nearly always nuggets of gold among the mud – the slightest glint needs to be panned for and washed bright.