Discernment of spirits isn’t just for adults. Help teens ask themselves how they make decisions, and lead them to practice discernment so that they...

Four Strategies for Discernment

Discernment Vinita Hampton Wright

In the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, there are various “rules for the discernment of spirits”—what we would simply call principles of wise discernment....

Why I Left IT to Join the Jesuits

Discernment Brendan McManus, SJ

Editor’s note: Throughout July, we’re celebrating 31 Days with St. Ignatius, a month-long celebration of Ignatian spirituality. In addition to the calendar of Ignatian articles found here,...

Callings

Discernment Melinda LeBlanc

I recently began watching a TV show about passengers on an airplane who, unknowingly, disappear for five years while in flight. While they believe...

Three Ways to Respond When Life Goes a Different Direction

Discernment Vinita Hampton Wright

After Ignatius of Loyola gave his life to God’s service, he imagined that he should go to Jerusalem to pray and do penance, make...

Minding Our Thought Patterns

Discernment Vinita Hampton Wright

In St. Ignatius’s second set of rules for discernment—the rules pertaining to more subtle discernment, what we might call advanced discernment—he addresses, in rules...

What Is Worthless and What Is of Value

Discernment dotMagis Editor

St. Ignatius would say, “It is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.” Ignatius invites us...