This is PIP, Peregrino Ignatian Path, intro B, thinking with the church.

Inomni Patrice, Sifidi, it's speedy to santi, amen.

Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will.

All I have, and call my own.

You have given all to me.

To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours. Do with it what you will.

Give me only your love and your grace. That is enough for me. In no many patricephili, it's

spiritu santi. Amen. Okay, to start off with, I am sorry that this sounds like I'm in a coffee can.

They're putting a new roof on my condo, and so I had to go to the public library and rent out one of these little

study rooms. And so it's very small and echoes a lot. I do apologize, but hopefully the content

will make up for the low production value. That's pretty much the whole story in my life.

The content hopefully making up for the production value. Now, as we mentioned last time in the opening

podcast on this series, PIP Entro A, there are 23 rules of discernment of the spiritual

exercises of St. Ignatius. And I linked website with my reproduction of all 23 of those,

which you could have read in 10 minutes.

But today is the only one we're going to do out of order in this podcast series.

And that, as you can probably guess, it's going to be rule number 23 before the other 22.

If you read them, you probably know why.

Now, let me read it to you if you didn't read it.

I think you're going to understand why we must start this one, especially now in the 21st century, unlike St. Ignatius of Loyola

in the 16th century, why he put it at the end. But anyway, he writes in rule number 23, quote,

if we wish to proceed securely in all things, we must hold fast to the following principle.

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