Publisher's Synopsis
"Ignatius's First Rules assist directors and their directees in discernments involving spiritual consolation and spiritual desolation. These fourteen rules provide invaluable aid at such times. Forty years of writing about, teaching, and applying these rules have shown me that Ignatius's First Rules are uniquely helpful when people struggle with spiritual desolation. These rules clarify the enemy's tactic and point the way to freedom. Our focus in this book, however, is Ignatius's Second Rules. In these eight rules, Ignatius addresses a more complex discernment. When a person has matured in the spiritual life, a time may come when the enemy changes tactics. Now he seeks less to discourage through spiritual desolation and begins, rather, to imitate the good spirit. He brings consolation with good, even holy thoughts-but directed toward a thing that God does not desire for this person. The enemy, Ignatius says, tempts this dedicated perso
