Ignatius' Rules for Discernment

Rule 1.1 In persons who go from serious sin to serious sin, our enemy suggests to them apparent pleasures, making them imagine sensual delights in order to hold them more and make them grow in their vices and sins. The Holy Spirit uses opposit method with these persons, pricking them and biting their consciences through the process of reason.

Rule 1.2 In persons who are intensely cleansing their life and rising from good to better in the service of God our Lord, it is the method of the enemy to bite, sadden, and put obstacles, disquieting with false reasons, that one may not go on; and it is proper to the Holy Spirit to give courage and strength, consolations, tears, inspirations, and quiet, easing and removing all hindrances, that one may go on in well doing.

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