“Bless the Lord, my soul; and do not forget all his gifts…” Psalm 103:2 In Psalm 103, we evangelize ourselves and speak to our souls, encouraging ourselves to praise and thank God. Don’t forget! Don’t forget the gifts of God.

“I call desolation all the contrary of the third rule, such as darkness of soul, disturbance in it, movement to low and earthly things, disquiet from various agitations and temptations, moving to lack of confidence, without hope, without love,

Five of you will put a hundred of your foes to flight, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand… Leviticus 26:8 It’s important to know that we are in a spiritual battle. But Jesus already won the victory.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “You are the temple of th...

Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? Matthew 7:3 Satan is the accuser. He points out our sins and failings. If we are looking for something to accuse someone of,

I call it consolation when some interior movement is caused in the soul, through which the soul comes to be inflamed with love of its Creator and Lord… Likewise when it sheds tears that move to love of its Lord,

Naked I came forth from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I go back there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord! Job 1:21 Mary Ann shares about the birth of Kiara Reuter and the death of Marion Halloran,

“Rules to aid us toward perceiving and then understanding… the various movements in the soul: the good movements that they may be received, and the bad that they may be rejected.” Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola,

And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us…” Hebrews 12:1 The dictionary describes perseverance as a continued, steady determination of a course of action that happens over a long period of time,

“…he came to perceive the different spirits that were moving him; one coming from the devil, the other coming from God.” Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola I begin a series on St. Ignatius of Loyola’s rules for discernment of spirits,