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The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

085: Discerning God's Will with St. Ignatius of Loyola

The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

Matthew Leonard

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9831 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Decisions, decisions... Life holds a lot of options and it's often hard to know which way to go, especially when it comes to serious, life-changing matters. Thankfully, we've got help. St. Ignatius of Loyola penned his famous Spiritual Exercises to enable people to discern the spirits - discern God's will for their lives. And the great thing is that's it's not pie-in-the-sky. It's super practical and down-to-earth. In fact, understanding his Exercises can save you a lot of headache and heartache. So join me and one of the most intelligent and holy priests I know, Fr. Aaron Pidel, SJ, for an in-depth discussion of St. Ignatius and his guide for our lives. We're covering: A bit of the (wild and wooly) background of St. IgnatiusHis massive conversionAn overview of the famous Spiritual ExercisesHow Ignatius allows feelings to come into play without them taking overThe massive role of consolations and desolationsPractical discernment of God's will Given my love of spiritual theology, this is an episode that is extremely close to my heart. I know you're going to get a lot out of it. God bless! Matthew P.S. I make a BIG announcement at the beginning of the podcast. Here's a little teaser... It's coming! Click here to sign up for the wait list to be notified when it goes live. P.P.S. I'm heading back to Italy! Join me in March 2019 for an amazing pilgrimage to Rome, Assisi, Orvieto, LaVerna, and much, much more! https://youtu.be/Sf-mJzhVh9s Here's Fr. Aaron's Guide to an Ignatian hour of prayer that I mentioned in the podcast: "Fr. Pidel Principles and Foundation of Ignatian Meditation"Download

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0:00.0

This is the Art of Catholic.

0:07.0

Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusts

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in thee.

0:22.7

Isaiah 26-3.

0:24.9

Hello everyone, I'm Matthew Leonard Welcome to the Art of Catholic the podcast dedicated

0:29.3

to diving into the truth, beauty and goodness of the Catholic faith and taking your practice

0:33.9

of it to the next level.

0:36.8

I know it has been a bit since I've released a podcast and a number of you have reached

0:40.5

out to me over the last few weeks asking when a new one is coming out.

0:44.6

Well, here it is.

0:46.8

Oh, trust me, when I say I have not been slacking.

0:50.8

In fact, I've got a pretty big announcement, slash life change to announce.

0:57.0

After 11 and a half years in the saddle, I'm in the midst of transitioning out of the

1:01.0

St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

1:03.7

It has been a wonderful run, and I'm extremely grateful to Dr. Hahn, the members of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. It has been a wonderful run,

1:05.7

and I'm extremely grateful to Dr. Hahn,

1:08.3

the members of the board,

1:09.9

all the great people with whom I've worked over the last decade.

1:13.1

I'm very proud of everything that we've accomplished over the years.

1:15.8

I consider it a great privilege to have been involved

1:17.9

in such life-changing projects.

1:20.9

For those of you that I normally see at the Summer conferences

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