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Discernment of Spirits

post comment Posted by – April 26th, 2026

This isn’t a post on all the elements that make up the discernment of spirits. However, I have spent time doing this from learning during Opus Dei retreats and with a spiritual director who started me on the Ignatian Spiritually. And now, my wife, Cindy and I are meeting regularly with a local priest who is helping us even further to learn and practice more. We started with the discernment of spirits and the differences between non-spiritual consolation and desolation and those things that are spiritual. It has taken a while to learn and spend time every day to look at our life and then just listen to God.

There is a lot to learn as we want to go as close to God as we can.

There are a lot of references if you are interesting and here are a couple:

The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living
The Jesuits website page: The Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Topics: Meditation, Opus Dei, Prayer, Saints, Spiritual Direction, St. Josemaria Escriva, Websites

EarlyChristians.org

post comment Posted by – November 23rd, 2008

EarlyChristians.orgAngelo Porciuncula is a Filipino student at the University of Navarre in Spain. He has set up a great website (EarlyChristians.org) for young people about the life of Jesus Christ’s early followers. There’s an interview with him on the Opus Dei website. Here’s an excerpt:

How did the idea of making a web page about the early Christians come about?

In the first place, we did it because there wasn’t any web page of its kind anywhere. Well at least none that we knew of. There are approximately 4,500 new Internet websites created daily. We thought it important to bring the way of life of the early Christians closer to the people of today, especially the youth.

Catholics can consider this web page as a family album. It is designed in such a way that anyone interested can learn about the life of the early Christians and later tell their friends about it. St. Josemaria always encouraged people to imitate the life of the early Christians, who with the example of their ordinary lives were able to change the world. Moreover, we want to echo the catechesis of Pope Benedict, who devotes his Wednesday audiences to the principal figures of early Christianity.

Topics: Education, Websites