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Guide to Spiritual Direction

Spiritual direction is not a counseling session, but a dialogue in faith, within the Church.

Keep in mind that there are three persons present – the director, the one directed and the Holy Spirit.

The goal is to discover the light that the Holy Spirit sheds on both of you to reveal God’s will in your concrete daily reality in order then to fulfill it.

Points to go over in Spiritual Direction

Prayer Life

• Have you been faithful to your prayer commitments?
• Are you giving quality time to your prayer?
• Are you making concrete resolutions and checking them periodically and keeping them faithfully?
• What progress and difficulties have you noticed in mental prayer, sacramental life, the fruit of your spiritual commitments and your examination of conscience?
• Does your prayer life fall into routine? What have you tried to do to avoid it?

Program of Life – a program of life is a personal plan that you draw up as a help to living your daily commitments and your personalized fight for holiness. It is drawn up with the help of your director and enlightenment from the Holy Spirit, according to your spiritual and human strengths and weaknesses, with objectives, goals and means, effectively making it a concrete plan for spiritual conquest.

• What progress have you made since your last spiritual direction?
• What difficulties have you encountered?
• Has any part of the program become routine?
• Are you avoiding or ignoring some of what you had proposed to do? Why?
• Are there any adjustments that need to be made for it to be a better tool for your progress?
• How have you done in the resolutions you made in your last spiritual direction?

General State of your Soul

• Is it dry, distracted, preoccupied, or serene, docile, confident and trusting in God’s grace?
• Depending on its state, what do you think are the causes?

Apostolic Work

• Are you dedicating any of your time, talents and love to others with a spirit of faith, hope and love? Or is it an imposition of my “personal time”?
• Are you working with the intention of glorifying God and advancing his Kingdom, or are you working for personal satisfaction, respect and/or the esteem of others?

Conscience Formation

• Is your conscience lax about giving in to your concessions?
• Do you rationalize your conduct so that you are always right in what you do or fail to do?
• Are you working to form a delicate, sensitive conscience that seeks to please God at every moment?