The Spiritual Practice Of Discernment

In the Catholic Church, we have a rich, deep, and long tradition on growing in discernment. The most well-known is the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. He developed it four hundred years ago and it has stood the test of time.

One of the key purposes of the spiritual exercises is to discern what comes from God and what doesn’t not. Is this God’s Will or your own will? Or worse, the will of the enemy?

This kind of thinking is very foreign among many modern people today. People just choose based on one question—“What is best for me?”

It’s a fair question but it’s very immature. A three-year old toddler already thinks this way.

But the 3000-year-old book we’re studying today invites us to ask a simple but more profound question when we make decisions: “What does God want for my life?”

As we close our series on Numbers, we dive deep into this question.

Have a mind-bending and soul-changing Feast today!

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez