Ignatius of Loyola’s Second Week Rules for Greater Discernment. This set of 8 “rules” (or guidelines) helps us to discern whether a seemingly good, noble, holy idea or feeling, often understood as a “spiritual consolation,” could be a working of the enemy intending to lead us astray. He shows how all of us can learn to listen to and follow God’s gentle leading in our daily lives. For other episodes in this series visit: The Second Week Rules for the Discernment Spirits with Fr.

September 24, 2025 - Ignatius of Loyola composed a second set of rules for discernment aimed at those who are already striving to grow in holiness. In this series, Fr. Timothy Gallagher unpacks these Second Week Rules, showing how they apply to real-life situations where choices are not between good and evil, but between two apparent goods.

Week rules. John English takes the case of an inexperienced retreatant whom · the Enemy deceives with the ‘fantasy’ of ‘going on difficult missions, or ... Timothy M. Gallagher · apostolate, long before they are purified of mortal sin or deep disordered ... Rules for Discernment of the Second Week.

July 11, 2025 - At such a time the soul is still fervent and favored with the grace and aftereffects of the consolation which has passed. In this second period the soul frequently forms various resolutions and plans which are not granted directly by God our Lord.

November 7, 2025 - Because the enemy is seeking whom he can devour and he is out to destroy us, he does not want us to have spiritual joys. This Rule reminds us somewhat of the second Rule for the First Week. In that Rule #2 we saw that when the soul is making spiritual progress, the devil tries to disrupt the progress by throwing wrenches in, as it were.

November 20, 2021 - This set of 8 “rules” (or guidelines) helps us to discern whether a seemingly good, noble, holy idea or feeling, often understood as a “spiritual consolation,” could be a working of the enemy intending to lead us astray. He shows how all of us can learn to listen to and follow God’s gentle leading in our daily lives. For other episodes in this series visit: The Second Week Rules for the Discernment Spirits with Fr.

February 4, 2022 - This set of 8 “rules” (or guidelines) helps us to discern whether a seemingly good, noble, holy idea or feeling, often understood as a “spiritual consolation,” could be a working of the enemy intending to lead us astray. He shows how all of us can learn to listen to and follow God’s gentle leading in our daily lives. For other episodes in this series visit: The Second Week ...

November 20, 2021 - This set of 8 “rules” (or guidelines) helps us to discern whether a seemingly good, noble, holy idea or feeling, often understood as a “spiritual consolation,” could be a working of the enemy intending to lead us astray. He shows how all of us can learn to listen to and follow God’s gentle leading in our daily lives. For other episodes in this series, visit The Second Week Rules for the Discernment Spirits with Fr.

March 10, 2021 - With Second Rules, 7, in mind, you gently · ask Kathy to describe that moment as best she can. She willingly does so, and you help her with · apposite questions. As she speaks, you find no trace of sharpness, noise, or disquiet when the · thought first arose. You perceive that a process of discernment will be necessary, but you also

These movements are instigated by both good and evil and the ability to read and understand the direction of these movements is often referred to as ‘discernment of spirits’. In Ignatius’ famous Rules For Discernment, the basic ones are called ‘First Week Rules’ and the more advanced ones ‘Second Week Rules’. One of the more advanced rules is when the ‘bad spirit’ appears sub angelo lucis, that is in the guise of good or as an angel of light, tempting with feelings that initially seems as though they are from God but end up leading us to situations of desolation.

December 10, 2022 - I have paraphrased these rules and added some commentary. The original rules are from the Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius of Loyola. 1 First Week: break with sin · 2 Second week: Choose wisely between good and good · 2.1 Making a choice in life · 2.2 Discernment of Spirits in the Second ...

December 19, 2025 - In the second rule, St. Ignatius introduced us to spiritual consolation, an experience that moves us toward God (whether our natural feelings coincide). In his third rule, St.

November 20, 2021 - This set of 8 “rules” (or guidelines) helps us to discern whether a seemingly good, noble, holy idea or feeling, often understood as a “spiritual consolation,” could be a working of the enemy intending to lead us astray.

September 29, 2020 - Now begins the second set of rules for the “discernment of spirits.” Saint Ignatius says that these rules are more applicable to those entering Week Two of The Spiritual Exercises. In other words, these rules are for those who have essentially overcome all serious sin in their lives and ...

It appears regularly in the grace for which retreatants should ask at the beginning of a contemplation, for example, during the Second Week: ‘To ask for inner knowledge of the Lord’ (Exx 104), or in the Contemplation to Attain Love: ‘To ...

January 24, 2023 - They assist people in identifying ... enemy of our human nature” (the world, the flesh, the devil). The second set is eight rules (Spiritual Exercises, 328–336) intended to help people who are firmly established in a spiritual life. These rules focus on spiritual consolation. They help people discern when the spiritual ...