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The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Introduction – The 14 Rules for the Discernment of Spirits In this foundational episode, Fr. Gallagher shares how the Ignatian teaching on the Discernment of Spirits grew out of his own priestly formation and retreat ministry. He explains that discernment is not simply about making decisions, but about learning to notice and understand the interior spiritual experience that unfolds daily within the heart and...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Two: The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the foundational elements of the Spiritual Exercises In Episode Two of The Discernment of Spirits: Setting the Captives Free , Fr. Timothy Gallagher continues the foundational teaching by turning directly to the lived experience of St. Ignatius of Loyola . In conversation with Kris McGregor , Fr. Gallagher recounts the dramatic events surrounding Ignatius’s...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor . Episode Three: Rule One – When the Heart Is Moving Away from God Episode 3 -The First Rule: In the persons who go from mortal sin to mortal sin, the enemy is commonly used to propose to them apparent pleasures, making them imagine sensual delights and pleasures in order to hold them more and make them grow in their vices and sins. In these persons the good spirit uses the opposite method, pricking them and...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Four: Rule Two – When the Heart Is Moving Toward God Episode 4 -The Second Rule: In the persons who are going on intensely cleansing their sins and rising from good to better in the service of God our Lord, it is the method contrary to that in the first Rule, for then it is the way of the evil spirit to bite, sadden and put obstacles, disquieting with false reasons, that one may not go on; and it is ...
Fr. Timothy Gallagher unpacks St. Ignatius of Loyola's Third Rule of Discernment, focusing on spiritual consolation. He describes it as an interior movement that inflames the soul with love for God, leading to tears of devotion, an increase in hope, faith, and charity, and profound inner peace. Using examples like Raisa Maritain and St. Therese of Lisieux, he distinguishes spiritual consolation from natural joys, illustrating how the latter can sometimes lead to deeper spiritual experiences and offering guidance on how to recognize and receive these divine gifts.
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Six: Rule Four – Understanding Spiritual Desolation Episode 6 -The Fourth Rule: Of Spiritual Desolation. I call desolation all the contrary of the third rule, such as darkness of soul, disturbance in it, movement to things low and earthly, the unquiet of different agitations and temptations, moving to want of confidence, without hope, without love, when one finds oneself all lazy, tepid, sad, and as ...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Seven: Rule Five – Never Make a Change in Time of Desolation Episode 7 -The Fifth Rule: In time of desolation never to make a change; but to be firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which he was in the preceding consolation. Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Eight: Rule Six – Resisting Spiritual Desolation Episode 8 -The Sixth Rule: Although in desolation we ought not to change our first resolutions, it is very helpful intensely to change ourselves against the same desolation, as by insisting more on prayer, meditation, on much examination, and by giving ourselves more scope in some suitable way of doing penance. Episode Eight of The Discernment of Spiri...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Nine: Rule Seven – Trusting God’s Grace in Spiritual Desolation Episode 9 -The Seventh Rule: Let him who is in desolation consider how the Lord has left him in trial in his natural powers, in order to resist the different agitations and temptations of the enemy; since he can with the Divine help, which always remains to him, though he does not clearly perceive it: because the Lord has taken from him ...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Ten: Rule Eight – Patience in Time of Spiritual Desolation Episode 10 -The Eighth Rule: Let him who is in desolation labor to be in patience, which is contrary to the vexations which come to him: and let him think that he will soon be consoled, employing against the desolation the devices, as is said in the sixth Rule. Episode Ten of The Discernment of Spirits: Setting the Captives Free focuses on Ru...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Eleven: Rule Nine – Why God Allows Spiritual Desolation Episode 11 -The Ninth Rule: There are three principal reasons why we find ourselves desolate. The first is, because of our being tepid, lazy or negligent in our spiritual exercises; and so through our faults, spiritual consolation withdraws from us. The second, to try us and see how much we are and how much we let ourselves out in His service an...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Twelve: Rule Ten – Preparing for Desolation in Times of Consolation Episode 12-The Tenth Rule: Let him who is in consolation think how he will be in the desolation which will come after, taking new strength for then. Episode Twelve of The Discernment of Spirits: Setting the Captives Free focuses on Rule Ten , which turns attention to what a person can do during times of spiritual consolation . Fr. Ti...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Thirteen: Rule Eleven – Humility in Consolation and Trust in Desolation Episode 13-The Eleventh Rule: Let him who is consoled see to humbling himself and lowering himself as much as he can, thinking how little he is able for in the time of desolation without such grace or consolation. On the contrary, let him who is in desolation think that he can do much with the grace sufficient to resist all his e...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Fourteen: Rule Twelve – Standing Firm at the Beginning of Temptation Episode 14-The Twelve Rule: The enemy acts like a woman, in being weak against vigor and strong of will. Because, as it is the way of the woman when she is quarrelling with some man to lose heart, taking flight when the man shows her much courage: and on the contrary, if the man, losing heart, begins to fly, the wrath, revenge, and ...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Fifteen: Rule Thirteen – Breaking the Spiritual Silence Episode 15 – The Thirteenth Rule: Likewise, he acts as a licentious lover in wanting to be secret and not revealed. For, as the licentious man who, speaking for an evil purpose, solicits a daughter of a good father or a wife of a good husband, wants his words and persuasions to be secret, and the contrary displeases him much, when the daughter r...
The 14 Rules of the Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher with Kris McGregor Episode Sixteen: Rule Fourteen – Strengthening the Weakest Point Episode 16 – The Fourteenth Rule: Likewise, he behaves as a chief bent on conquering and robbing what he desires: for, as a captain and chief of the army, pitching his camp, and looking at the forces or defenses of a stronghold, attacks it on the weakest side, in like manner the enemy of human nature, roaming about, looks in turn at all our vir...
Dec 20, 2020•28 min
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