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struggles in the spiritual life, their nature, and their remedies, with Father Timothy Gallagher.

Father Gallagher is the author of many best-selling books on the theology and spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

He holds the St. Ignatius' chair of spiritual formation at St. John

Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado. Struggles in the spiritual life, their nature and their

remedies with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome back, Father Gallagher.

I'm always happy to be here, Chris.

Even when it pertains to struggling in the spiritual journey?

Well, as you've been saying, this is not primarily about struggles.

It's about freedom from struggles.

So we're only naming the struggles in order to show with Ignatius and with the

church's wisdom how to identify them and then to overcome them. So yes, I'm very happy to talk

about overcoming struggles. I think it's great because you are leading us to connect with the

divine physician, the one who can help us and is waiting to help us in these struggles.

And of course, I'm talking about our Lord, and Lord Jesus is waiting.

He's knocking at that door, isn't he?

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