Discernment of Spirits

Join me on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord as we sit together to go through the Discernment of Spirits.

Discernment of spirits is a term used in Christian theology to judge the influence of various spiritual agents on a person's morality. These agents are:

• From within the human soul itself, known as concupiscence (considered evil)
• Divine Grace (considered good)
• Angels (considered good)
• Devils (considered evil)

Discernment of spirits is considered necessary to discern the cause of a given impulse. Although some people are regarded as having a special gift to determine the causes of an impulse intuitively, most people are held to require study and reflection, and possibly the direction of others, in the discernment of spirits.

Together, we will journey through two of the most common ways of developing this discernment in the Spirit of Love and Consolation.

In everyday life, the most often needed kind of discernment of spirits is the discernment of thoughts (if the person analyses their thoughts at all). Besides thoughts, discernment of spirits can be applied to the judgment of such phenomena as dreams, visions, miracles, prophecies, and other supernatural gifts.

This is going to be highly Enlightening.