November 21, 2015 - Ignatius calls this Consolation. At other times, we cannot feel God's love. Even though we know God loves us, we feel, "darkness of soul, disturbance in it, movement to low and earthly things, disquiet from various agitations and temptations, moving to lack of confidence, without hope, without love, finding oneself totally slothful, tepid, sad, and as if separated from one's Creator and Lord." (#317) This is Desolation, and it sucks.

director Margaret Slif and others describe desolation as negativity toward self and others, discouragement, hopelessness, depletion of strength and energy, an all-encompassing sense of · doom, and a loss of the personal journey that one has had with the Lord. Consolation is described

June 21, 2024 - Thus, spiritual consolation refreshes our hidden hope, our great ideals and interior visions of life. It shows us where God is active in our lives and where He is leading us. Spiritual desolation, on the other hand, turns us in on ourselves ...

one’s Creator and Lord. For just as consolation is contrary to · desolation, in the same way, the thoughts that spring from

June 30, 2010 - Consolation is the interior movement of the heart that gives a deep sense of life-giving connection with God, others and my most authentic self in God. It is the sense that all is right with the world, that I am free to be given over to God ...

Last January 2024, at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Jesuit School, St. Stanislas College in Delft, the Netherlands, the Dutch edition of Learning by Refraction was launched, and each of their teachers was presented a copy of Read more… · Some faculty of the Niels Steensens ...

November 7, 2019 - When I speak about gratitude and thanksgiving, one who recently received news they have cancer hears differently than one recently engaged. The good news according to Ignatius; “if you are in desolation have hope because consolation will come.

May 13, 2020 - Commentator Margaret Silf explains that the two words help us judge which direction our life is taking us in —toward hope, to the light [consolation] or away from hope or light [desolation]? Both these experiences are common to us but have very different results. On a piece of paper draw a line down the middle and then write ‘consolation’ on one side and ‘desolation’ on the other.

As Ignatius meditated on what he read, he experienced consolation and he remained "cheerful and satisfied." As he meditated on the dreams of worldly glory that he previously enchanted him, he experienced desolation and felt "weary, dry and dissatisfied." As he pondered these two different movements of consolation and desolation, he discovered his personal vocation.

July 20, 2023 - The polar movements of the soul ... increase of faith, hope, and charity, and, on the other hand, “desolation,” in which the soul is darkened, in turmoil, and disquieted, counter to consolation, are movements observable in ...

July 14, 2017 - ​Recently, a good friend and I were talking about emotions and how they affect our lives. He shared some thoughts from St. Ignatius of Loyola. “Saint Ignatius of Loyola 1491-1556 was a...

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March 17, 2017 - As we learn to recognize when we are in desolation and consolation, we can respond accordingly: changing course (through prayer, community, discernment, spiritual direction) when in desolation, and staying the course when in consolation.

April 1, 2022 - As you can see above, consolation (and desolation, as we’ll see) is more than just a feeling or feelings. Rather, it is a state of being. This means that we shouldn’t expect any particular feeling whether we’re in consolation. Rather, it is a lens through which we are looking at the world—the lens of God’s love.

June 18, 2019 - Ignatius writes, “I call desolation all the contrary of (consolation), such as darkness of soul, disturbance in it, movement to low and earthly things, disquiet from various agitations and temptations, moving to lack of confidence, without hope, without love, finding oneself totally slothful, ...

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Ignatius speaks frequently of what he calls spiritual consolation and · desolation. These terms come from the Spanish, and ultimately the Latin · root, meaning ‘with the sun’ (‘consolation’) and ‘away from the sun’ · (‘desolation’), and shelves of books have been written about what they ·

I told the person behind me to take my place, I’d follow next. But when that time came, I was still immobile. I let several others go before me that day, and I sat there, paralyzed by the fear that my confession wouldn’t be good enough for God to forgive me. That’s how the desolation of stuckness works.

December 22, 2020 - When we understand this, we can say that consolation is when we feel our life fully connected with the context of the Principle and Foundation, when all seems oriented toward our purpose of loving God and neighbour. Desolation, on the other hand, is an unawareness or uncertainty of how our life fits within the context of the Principle and Foundation.