This is Peregrino Ignatian Path Introduction A, the supremacy of the spiritual exercises and the Holy Spirit's gift of counsel.

Hello, my name is Father David Nix on the Padre Peregrino podcast. Today, I am very happy to present to you the beginning of my new series, Peregrino Ignatian

Paths, the discernment of spirits within the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Now, many traditional Catholics out there today hardly think of St. Ignatius as one we should

look to for the richest directions of the

spiritual life, probably because of where the Jesuits have gone since Vatican 2. But we're going to

see in a few minutes why the path of salvation was so highly illuminated by St. Ignatius of Loyola

according to Pope Pius the 11th, of course,

a 20th century pope. First, a little bit about our saint. St. Ignatius of Loyola was a 16th century

knight who really before his conversion had broken all of God's commandments severely.

But following an earth-shattering conversion,

after actually a knee-shattering wound that he took at war when a cannon hit his leg,

he went and he lived in a cave

as he was having all this repentance,

where he almost entered a state of despair

due to the enormity of his past sins.

But God revealed his mercy to him.

He infused knowledge on the major truths of the Catholic faith.

St. Ignatius of Loyal made a life confession, which took a very, very long time.

And as St. Ignatius' conversion continued, he gave himself entirely and completely and extremely

generously to the interior life, the ascetical life of mental prayer, fasting, mortification, and very, very, actually, harsh penances.

In all of this, he kept a notebook with everything he was learning pretty much directly from God, but also from his past experiences.

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