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Rays of Love

DarkNightoftheSoul.jpgA portion of a letter from a Jesuit Priest, a friend:


...As for your experience of the DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, allow me to share insights from Ignatius of Loyola.


He talks about the life-giving Spirit (Good Spirits) and the death-dealing Spirit (Evil Spirits). The dark night in your case is not from God in the sense of being drawn into the darkness of the all-too-bright-blinding holiness of God, but occasioned by the evil wickedness of the human heart and the system.


So this dark night turns you in on yourself (very self-centered) and weighs you down with thoughts (depressing ones - what a scoundrel scandal you are!!) and thus effects your emotions (leading to despair and alienation from God).


In such moments, turn your thoughts towards God (away from self), stay in the bosom of God (God loves me, God forgives me, God enfolds me with unconditional love) and stay afloat in the sea of God's rays of love.


...Know that we all love you as God's special gift!! Believe this as Gospel truth so that no darkness can completely overshadow this truth with its darkness and thus render the death-dealing spirit "toothless".

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Thank you!!! Exactly the words i need! God bless uncle Shermy (and the new household) ^^

wise words from a Jesuit about Ignatius' consolation, desolation and the discernment of spirits.

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