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By: FATHERS Team » Finding a Spiritual Advisor

FATHERS Team » Finding a Spiritual Advisor — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:43:17 +0000

[...] How do I find and select a spiritual director? [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:23:00 +0000

My apologies – we don’t have a network available to search for you…

By: danburke

danburke — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:23:27 +0000

Dear Friend - Fr. John is not able to answer you at this time - my apologies. As for recommendations, due to financial limitations we do not yet have the means to link directors with directees. However, please review this post for more ideas and be assured you are in my prayers.

http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/05/27...

By: Robert Christ

Robert Christ — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:22:48 +0000

Dear Fr John,
Reading your writing here has taken away a quarter of my burden. I have been a Catholic for many years and have spent half my life searching for a Spiritual Director without success. I hope you will not doubt me when I say to you that I have seen our Lord Jesus Christ, Angels and Heaven, not in the dream but by vision. As I pray for explanation He would add another revelation and I now thirst for Him more than a man in the desert thirst for water. I live by faith daily and nothing else excite me unless reading and thinking of Jesus Christ and all the revelations. Please, can you assist me by recommending a Spiritual Director? I shall be pleased to hear from you.

Yours-in-Christ Jesus.

Robert
Jesus Christ Family Missionary
Sheffield, UK

By: Mrs D

Mrs D — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:20:33 +0000

Thank you for this blog, God bless you, and please keep me in your prayers. I have a long way to go.

By: Dan Burke

Dan Burke — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:26:05 +0000

Fantastic Andrew – God provides!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:18:39 +0000

Dan,

I have not been cleared to drive yet from my fall in June. Him and I have wrote letters to each other and that has helped; but I know talking face to face is better.

By: Dan Burke

Dan Burke — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:54:14 +0000

Dear Andrew in Christ,

Any reason you would not drive to him? Several of our readers drive this kind of distance to meet with good spiritual directors.

Pax Christi

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:02:45 +0000

I know a priest who would be my spiritual director; but he lives about a fifty miles from me and he was the old parish priest until he was moved to another parish. He always gave me spiritual direction everytime I went to serve Mass, at Adoration and the Stations of the Cross; I know it wouldn’t be right to ask him to come back once in a while; because then I would be taking him away from the new parish and the people there. But I know he would come if I asked him; he was the best and most holy man I ever knew in person; besides Jesus in the Eucharist. Should I ask him to come once in a while or what would you recommend on doing? Thanks and God Bless.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:46:03 +0000

Dear Fr. John and Dan:
I am the author of the “I am new to spiritual direction” posted 10/05/09. I simply wanted to thank you for all your advice and efforts in putting out this website.Your response to that post was extremely helpful and when I finally met with my fairly new director/new pastor and talked through his expectations, my fears and my confusion, all was resolved and everything is going very smoothly. Our last meeting was very powerful and prayerful centering on the gifts and greatness of the Holy Spirit. Since that meeting I have also finished reading the book, Spiritual Progress by Fr. Williams and just received last week The Better Part. Chapter 8 on the Holy Spirit in Spiritual Progress was a turning point. Having just finished the introduction and “how-to” of The Better Part,I am looking forward to diving into the meditations so as to assist me in moving closer to Our Lord and his Holy Mother this Advent.
I am so eager to meet this month with my spiritual director to share with him The Better Part.I am hoping to also have him review my life program.
As a response to the current thread regarding writing letters, I have done this on several occasions.For me the whispers of the Holy Spirit are sometimes so awesome and emotional that during my prayer time it is easier to write them down to share with him later than to verbalize it on the spot. Sometimes the Holy spirit leaves me speechless and unable to express what I experienced! This is not an awkward or scary feeling but simply something awesome and profound.
Anyway, THANK YOU THANK YOU for sharing all your efforts.I am so grateful to the Holy Spirit for leading me to this site and will remember you both in my prayers always!! Have a blessed Advent and may our Holy Mother Mary protect you under her mantle always.
+Peace,
Yvonne