Rather, the director helps a person respond to God’s invitation to a deeper relationship. Spiritual direction is also not the Sacrament of Reconciliation (though if your spiritual director is a priest you can always ask to receive the sacrament). The human spiritual director does not “direct” in the sense of giving advice and solving problems. The spiritual director asks not just “what is happening?” but “what is moving forward?” Spiritual direction is a relationship that is going somewhere. God is leading the person to deeper faith and more generous service. Most often this is a relationship that is experienced in prayer. It is what happens in an ongoing relationship between the person and God. The religious experience is not isolated, nor does it consist of extraordinary events.
Spiritual direction is about a relationship. List of Spiritual Directors Mary Catherwood RSM, .nz Christina Cathro RNDM, Kirsten Challies, kirsten.challies. Spiritual direction focuses on religious experience. It is concerned with a person’s actual experience of a relationship with God. Connolly, The Practice of Spiritual Direction) Spiritual direction is “help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship.” (William A.
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