Spiritual Direction

[rowermath]

I’m kind of new to spiritual direction. What is it, really, and what goes on during spiritual direction. I’m discerning a religious vocation, not officially, but i’ve felt a call for a few years, but am only a freshman in college. I’ve found a priest on campus that I think i feel comfortable with, but I think I just need to know a bit more about what spiritual direction is.

Thanks so much for your help!

God Bless!!!

 

[mercygate]

I’m kind of new to spiritual direction. What is it, really, and what goes on during spiritual direction. I’m discerning a religious vocation, not officially, but i’ve felt a call for a few years, but am only a freshman in college. I’ve found a priest on campus that I think i feel comfortable with, but I think I just need to know a bit more about what spiritual direction is.

Thanks so much for your help!

God Bless!!!

If you start working with this priest to discern your vocation, the subject of spiritual direction will likely come up and the question will answer itself. Godspeed.

 

[Cristiano]

Read this blog from the brother in charge of spiritual directorship in the Diocese of Austin TX

 

[Joannm]

the director will probably want to know a bit about you. Your age, family, your spiritual journey, your prayer life, how much you participate in the sacraments, things like that. Then he or she might ask you what you are looking for. They might make suggestions for prayer or reading and then talk about what you gleaned from that at your next session. If you are discerning a vocation or a pariticular difficult decision, he or she might explore that with you from a spiritual point of view. What a director will not do is stifle the Holy Spirit by telling you what to do, but help you to discern the voice the Spirit in your life.