“ Knowledge about how to discern. In the Exercises Ignatius presents three different times for making good, sound decisions. In the first time, there is no doubt about what the will of God is. In the second time, discernment in common may be done, by taking account of spiritual movements and their confirmation, or it may also be done by reasoning and deciding according to what is described in the third time. For a group of persons who have experience in the discernment of spirits, discernment in common can take the form of a process in which they perceive and weigh the movements which the spirits provoke in the group that is seeking the will of God.
On occasion, depending on the conditions experienced by those who make up the group that is discerning, it may be advisable to make use of reasoning or deliberating the advantages (pros) and the disadvantages (cons) of making a certain election against the horizon of the greater and better service of the glory of God.”
Official letter by Fr. General Arturo Sosa, SJ on Discernment in common
Official letter by Fr. General Arturo Sosa, SJ on Discernment in Co…
Fr. General Arturo Sosa, SJ, 2019 Read
Spiritual conversation and communal discernment
From: “COMMUNAL APOSTOLIC DISCERNMENT: A TOOLKIT” (CDA), 2019 Read
Formation in Spiritual Discernment – The Pope Video March 2018
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, 2018
Introduction to Spiritual Conversation by Fr. John Dardis, S.J.
The General Curia of the Society of Jesus, 2019
Communal discernment for Ignatian decision making in schools
Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific , 2017
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Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific, 2017
