Discerning Hearts

Episode 2 The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayer. (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)  The First Step in the Examen Prayer:  Gratitude.  Taking time out of the day when our hearts are free to receive the Lord's p...

Episode 1 The Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Ignatian Wisdom of the Examen Prayerâ€" (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)Serves as an introduction to the coming series and the Examen Prayer.  Can we live with our spiritual eyes open to catch the acti...

(http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dr_Keating-for-web.jpg)Episode 9-Listening For Truthâ€" The supernatural virtues provide for us the gifts to walk and respond to moral truths.  We need to practice the virtues to receive the wisdom of God and to be more deliber...

Episode 5 -The Third Rule: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)

Of Spiritual Consolation. I call it consolation when some interior movement in the soul is caused, through which the soul comes to be inflamed with love of its Creator and Lord; and when...

Episode 16 - The Fourteenth Rule: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)

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 stro...

Episode 15 - The Thirteenth Rule: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)

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 wi...

Episode 14-The Twelve Rule: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)

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 m...

Episode 13-The Eleventh Rule: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)

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 co...

Episode 12-The Tenth Rule: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)

Let him who is in consolation think how he will be in the desolation which will come after, taking new strength for then...

Episode 11 -The Ninth Rule: (http://www.discerninghearts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fr_Tim.jpg)

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 con...