Title Statement & Issue at Hand – The Second Week Rules for the Discernment of Spirits w/ Fr. Timothy Gallagher – Discerning Hearts Podcast

Episode 2 – Teachings on the Title Statement and a look at the Issue at Hand – The Second Week Rules for the Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide to a Greater Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Fr. Gallagher breaks open the meaning of the term "greater discernment of spirits" and examens the issue at hand when entering second-week rule discernment The Title Statement: "Rules for the same effect with greater discernment of spirits, and they help more for the second week. (328) First Rule. The first: it is proper to God and to his angels, in their movements, to give true joy and spiritual gladness, taking away all sadness and disturbance which the enemy induces; to whom it is proper to militate against that joy and spiritual consolation, bringing apparent reasons, subtleties and persistent fallacies. (329) Through a series of compelling conference talks, Fr. Gallagher carefully breaks open St. Ignatius of Loyola's Second Week Rules for Greater Discernment. This set of 8 "rules" (or guidelines) helps us to discern whether a seemingly good, noble, holy idea or feeling, often understood as a "spiritual consolation," could be a working of the enemy intending to lead us astray. He shows how all of us can learn to listen to and follow God's gentle leading in our daily lives. For other episodes in this series visit: The Second Week Rules for the Discernment Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher – DH PageThis series is based on Spiritual Consolation by Fr. Timothy Gallagher You can find the book here Also, here are the 2 handouts mentioned by Fr. Gallagher in Talk 1: Guidance for a Greater Discernment of Spirits with Fr. Timothy Gallagher O.M.V. For the PDF document: Handout Number 1 – The Text of the 8 Rules of the Second Week
https://www.discerninghearts.com/Gallagher/The_Text_of_the_Rules.pdf Handout Number 2 – Examples – Discernment of Spirits – 2nd Week rules
https://www.discerninghearts.com/Gallagher/EXAMPLES-DISCERNMENT_OF_SPIRITS-SECOND_WEEK_RULES.pdf The Discernment of Spirits: The First Week Rules /w Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMVThe Daily Prayer of Discernment: The Examen Prayer with Fr. Timothy GallagherThe Discernment of God’s Will in Everyday Decisions with Fr. Timothy Gallager