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🗓️ 20 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to The Examine, your daily prayer hosted by Father James Martin and brought to you by America Media, a Jesuit ministry. |
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0:22.9 | The link is in the show notes. |
0:28.2 | Hi, I'm Father Jim Martin. |
0:31.3 | I'm about to lead you through a traditional Jesuit prayer |
0:34.6 | to help you notice where God has been in your day. But first, here's our weekly |
0:40.0 | reflection. This summer, I thought we could expand our conversation on prayer by talking about different topics in prayer. |
0:56.7 | In other words, I'd like to talk about the kinds of things that people ask after they have |
1:01.6 | been praying for a while. This week, let's talk about spiritual direction. If you've been praying |
1:08.7 | for any length of time, you might have heard about the practice of spiritual direction, |
1:13.2 | so you might wonder, what is it? And is it for me? |
1:18.2 | Essentially, a spiritual director helps you, the directee, notice where God is active in your personal prayer and your daily life. |
1:26.9 | A good spiritual director doesn't offer psychological counseling per se, |
1:32.3 | or even advice about what to do in your life, |
1:35.3 | but rather helps you to see where God is leading you. |
1:39.3 | Normally, a person would meet with their spiritual director once a month, |
1:43.3 | perhaps for an hour or so. |
1:45.0 | I would say that anyone who is serious about living a healthy spiritual life should, at least |
1:51.0 | for some time, seek out spiritual direction. And by all means, get someone who is trained, not |
1:58.0 | simply someone that you see as a holy person. |
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