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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: When Faced with a Major Life Choice | |
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| Text of St. Ignatius | |
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| Preparation | |
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| The Question: Which Choice Does God Want? | |
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| The Foundation: God's Infinite Love and Our Response | |
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| �We Love Because He First Loves Us� | |
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| �To Do Your Will Is My Delight� | |
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| The Disposition: Openness to Whatever God Wills | |
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| �Whatever You Want, Lord� | |
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| �Loved to the Death by Jesus Christ� | |
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| Sent by Jesus | |
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| The Means | |
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| Spiritual �Exercises� | |
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| Holy Eucharist | |
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| Sacred Spripture | |
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| Silence | |
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| Spiritual Direction | |
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| Review of Spiritual Experience | |
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| From Preparation to Discernment | |
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| Clarity beyond Doubting: The First Mode | |
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| �He Could Not Doubt about the Matter� | |
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| �This Certitude and Deep Peace� | |
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| �There Was No Doubting It� | |
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| �It Had Always Been Clear� | |
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| First Mode of Discernment: Questions to Consider | |
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| An Attraction of the Heart: The Second Mode | |
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| �With Deep Devotion and Tears� | |
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| �Experience of Consolations and Desolations� | |
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| �Again That Consolation Would Be Given Me� | |
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| �Only When There Was Peace in My Heart� | |
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| �The Room in My Heart� | |
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| �When I Was Most Joyful� | |
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| �Like a Magnet Drawing Me� | |
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| Second Mode of Discernment: Questions to Consider | |
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| A Preponderance of Reasons: The Third Mode | |
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| A Further Mode of Discernment | |
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| A Time of Tranquility | |
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| Third Mode of Discernment: First Way | |
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| �She Suggested Looking at the Advantages and Disadvantages� | |
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| Third Mode of Discernment: Second Way | |
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| �When I Took the First Point� | |
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| Third Mode of Discernment: Questions to Consider | |
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| Fruit | |
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| The Value of the Process of Discernment | |
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| Concluding the Process | |
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| The Process and Growth | |
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| The Process and Grace | |
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| The Fruit of Discernment | |
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| �And This Gives Me Peace and Joy� | |
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| �In Your Will Is Our Peace� | |
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| Appendix: Complete Text of St. Ignatius | |
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| Notes | |