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What Is Spiritual Direction and Why Do Catholics Do It?

By Sean Salai — 2016

I recently interviewed Father Barry by email about the Ignatian practice of spiritual direction.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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I seemed to hear God saying, ‘Put down your gun and we’ll talk.’

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

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Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.

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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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