Discernment of Spirits by Fr. Timothy Gallagher
The Fifth Rule: Spiritual Desolation & the Need for Trust & Fidelity
Episode 7
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25m
Fr. Timothy Gallagher discusses the Fifth Rule:
"In time of desolation never to make a change; but to be firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which he was in the preceding consolation. Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us, so in desolation it is the bad, with whose counsels we cannot take a course to decide rightly."
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