Spiritual Directors – Catholic Prayer, Discernment, Spirituality

The Discerning Hearts Spiritual Directors and Formators

Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMV

Dr. Anthony Lilles, STD

Msgr. John Esseff

Fr. Mauritius Wilde, OSB

Deacon James Keating PhD

Dr. Paul Thigpen, PhD

Fr. Eamonn Bourke

Dr. David Fagerberg

Fr. Donald Haggerty

Fr. Paul Hoesing

Fr. Thomas McDermott OP

Fr. Scott Traynor

Dr. Adrian Walker, PhD

Fr. Mark Cyza

S. Gill Goulding C.J.

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Dr. Peter Kreeft, PhD

Teresa Monaghen, AO

Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J.

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From the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the nature of the “Catholic Spiritual Director”

PART FOUR
CHRISTIAN PRAYER

SECTION ONE
PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

CHAPTER TWO
THE TRADITION OF PRAYER

ARTICLE 3
GUIDES FOR PRAYER

 

2690 The Holy Spirit gives to certain of the faithful the gifts of wisdom, faith and discernment for the sake of this common good which is prayer (spiritual direction). Men and women so endowed are true servants of the living tradition of prayer.

According to St. John of the Cross, the person wishing to advance toward perfection should “take care into whose hands he entrusts himself, for as the master is, so will the disciple be, and as the father is so will be the son.” And further: “In addition to being learned and discreet a director should be experienced. . . . If the spiritual director has no experience of the spiritual life, he will be incapable of leading into it the souls whom God is calling to it, and he will not even understand them.”47

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