The Way of Spiritual DirectionLiturgical Press, 1993 - 220 pagine This handy manual presents everything you might want to know about spiritual direction. But its focus is technical rather than inspirational. This being understood, it would be hard to find a more comprehensive treatment of the subject. The qualities of the good spiritual director are clearly set forth. Above all, the authors note, there must be a willingness to love and to listen with patience and gentleness, yet with courage to speak the often unpalatable truth. On the directee's side, there must be openness to the unexpected and willingness to wait with patience and sometimes pain for signs of progress. There must be the realization that God is the ultimate spiritual director, guiding every soul according to his timetable of what is best suited to the uniqueness of the individual. |
Sommario
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Spiritual Direction as Listening | 51 |
2 Spiritual dimensions of listening | 61 |
Manifestation of the Heart | 67 |
Basic Principles for Listening | 83 |
Divine Wisdom | 95 |
Difficulties for the Director in Listening | 119 |
Difficulties for the Directee in Listening | 130 |
Listening to and Loving the Directee | 146 |
The Spiritual DirectorDirectee Relationship | 161 |
Listening and Poverty of Spirit | 181 |
Personalized Retreats | 193 |
Conclusion | 213 |
The Emergence of the Directees Spiritual Direction | 108 |
Parole e frasi comuni
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Brani popolari
Pagina 69 - I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Pagina 87 - Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.
Pagina 86 - He came not to do His own will, but the will of the Father who sent Him...
Pagina 18 - Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Pagina 84 - His direction is, in reality, nothing more than a way of leading us to see and obey our real Director— the Holy Spirit, hidden in the depths of our...
Pagina 18 - And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
Pagina 36 - What the Fathers sought most of all was their own true self, in Christ. And in order to do this, they had to reject completely the false, formal self, fabricated under social compulsion in "the world." They sought a way to God that was uncharted and freely chosen, not inherited from others who had mapped it out beforehand. They sought a God whom they alone could find, not one who was "given" in a set, stereotyped form by somebody else.
Pagina 64 - In other words, the true contemplative is not the one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect or anticipate the word that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and when he is "answered," it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence.
Pagina 65 - We must remember that the Word, the Son of God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is hidden in essence and in presence, in the inmost being of the soul.
Pagina 79 - But when you are handed over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes, Because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you.
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