I've had a policy for a long time that if you claim you're being "led by the Spirit" it means you are neither applying your mind to discernment properly nor taking sufficient amount of the fact that you might discern incorrectly, and think you were hearing the voice of God when you were really hearing your own wishes.
I've had a policy for a long time that if you claim you're being "led by the Spirit" it means you are neither applying your mind to discernment properly nor taking sufficient amount of the fact that you might discern incorrectly, and think you were hearing the voice of God when you were really hearing your own wishes.
More recently I've adopted a policy of replacing "Holy Spirit" with "God" whenever I see it and asking if the result makes sense.
I'm not sure how to even translate "synodality". I used to think it meant greater legal independence and authority for bishops and local groups of bishops, but that seems like an outdated definition by this point. The new definition seems to be "shouting very loudly about listening", which would seem to be a kind of virtue signaling.
I went through many of my CD's recently and one of them made the point that anyone who doesn't have a spiritual director is a fool, mostly due to the reasons you listed in your first paragraph. So I immediately found one and made my first meeting. I had difficulties doing what she told me to do and will talk about it more at my next appointment.
I've had a policy for a long time that if you claim you're being "led by the Spirit" it means you are neither applying your mind to discernment properly nor taking sufficient amount of the fact that you might discern incorrectly, and think you were hearing the voice of God when you were really hearing your own wishes.
More recently I've adopted a policy of replacing "Holy Spirit" with "God" whenever I see it and asking if the result makes sense.
I'm not sure how to even translate "synodality". I used to think it meant greater legal independence and authority for bishops and local groups of bishops, but that seems like an outdated definition by this point. The new definition seems to be "shouting very loudly about listening", which would seem to be a kind of virtue signaling.
“The new definition seems to be ‘shouting very loudly about listening’”
Brilliant!
I went through many of my CD's recently and one of them made the point that anyone who doesn't have a spiritual director is a fool, mostly due to the reasons you listed in your first paragraph. So I immediately found one and made my first meeting. I had difficulties doing what she told me to do and will talk about it more at my next appointment.