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Chapter
10
First
Week Rules for Discernment
This chapter takes the Rules for Discernment in the First Week and comments
on each rule giving examples that frequently happen in ordinary directing
situations. The classic definitions of consolation and desolation
appear here, as well as comments about what to do in consolation and desolation.
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Chapter 10 --
it will be helpful
to review the text of the Spiritual Exercises
[313] to
[327]
for the Rules
for Discernment in the First Week.
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Pray
and Reflect:
The
Rules for Discernment come alive and begin to name everyday circumstances
when one takes time to reflect on one's own experience. What examples
in your own life can you find to illustrate these Rules and descriptions?
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Wonder
and Discuss:
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Where have I seen these
rules (descriptions) operative in people?
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What would be some examples
of "suitable penance" today?
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Agere contra desolationem
-- to work against the desolation is sometimes translated erroneously as
working against oneself. How does one "work against desolation?"
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Look at the three images
about desolation [325], [326], [327]. How have you shared intimate
thoughts and feelings, or a time to defend oneself in a vulnerable area?
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The Rules of Discernment
encourage a careful monitoring of "spontaneous movements in affectivity."
What discipline is needed to get one's head, heart, body, and faith together
in good discernment?
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