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Discerninghearts.com, in cooperation with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, presents

The Discernment of Spirits, Setting the Captus Free, with Father Timothy Gallagher.

Father Gallagher is the author of seven books published by the Crossworld Publishing Company

on the spiritual teaching of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Life of

Venerable Brunel and Terry, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary. Father Gallagher is

featured on the EWTN series, Living the Disserting Life, the spiritual teachings of St. Ignatius

of Loyola. The discernment ofits, setting the captus free with Father

Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Father Gallagher. Thank you.

The discernment of spirits. Could you tell us just a little bit about its formation? Well, it really

began when I was ordained as an oblate of the Virgin Mary.

And my religious community is dedicated above all to the Ignatian spiritual exercises, to

making this retreat experience available to people in all different kinds of settings. Formal

retreats in a retreat house of a few days or many days,

or as an experience in parishes for larger groups, weekend retreats, retreat settings, and so on.

And I quickly realized that I really couldn't do this responsibly.

Lead Ignatian retreats,

retreats based on the teaching of St. Ignatius of Loyola,

unless I knew more about this particular piece of his teaching,

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