ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

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.

Read on www.americamagazine.org

FindCenter Post-Image

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

Quote
C. S. Lewis
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Quote
C. S. Lewis
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

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

Quote
C. S. Lewis
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

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.

Quote
C. S. Lewis
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

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.

Quote
C. S. Lewis
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Foundations in Spiritual Direction: Sharing the Sacred Across Traditions

Foundations in Spiritual Direction visually repeats the process and atmosphere that occurs when deep listening and respectful sharing take place. Through the interplay of text and sacred art images, the book is designed to re-awaken our metaphorical minds and liberate our intuitive knowing.

Book
Beverly Lanzetta
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
09:38

Bridge of Consciousness: Soulshaping

Jeff Brown takes us along a bridge of consciousness, a stepping out into the heart of our spiritual journey- from false path to true path, from misidentification to authenticity.

Video
Jeff Brown
2009
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
01:10:05

Guidance & Mind Training ACIM - What Is Guidance? & What Is Mind Training? How to Train the Mind

A Course in Miracles - This full talk is on the topic of guidance and mind training.

Video
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
01:06

What Does a Spiritual Director Do?

New to spiritual direction? Hear from active spiritual director Mary McInerney about what a spiritual director does.

Video
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
04:23

What Is Spiritual Direction?

Video
2013
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Spiritual Direction