Spiritual direction is a privileged time and place to confidentially reflect with a trusted person about your relationship with God. The focus is your life with God as it is lived out in all your experiences. Spiritual direction is for those who may be experiencing life’s transitions and even at times seeking God when it feels like God is distant. A director may help you discern the next direction in your life and what God’s desire is for you. The gift of spiritual direction is the process of coming home to your deepest self, discovering God in the midst of daily living. Spiritual direction can add to your conscious experience of God’s presence and love.

In spiritual direction, you reflect deeply on the experiences of your daily life. The intended “content” for each session is what you bring — prayer, images of God, questions of faith, relationship situations, joys, sadness, fears, hopes.  What takes place during the session is what God desires, because the true director is the Holy Spirit. 
  
All spiritual directors at St. Martin de Porres have received specialized training and certification in Spiritual Direction and volunteer their time in this ministry. 

What is spiritual direction and why do Catholics do it?

I guess the best answer is the one Bill Connolly and Fr. William A. Barry, S.J. described in The Practice of Spiritual Direction: “We define Christian spiritual direction, then, as help given by one believer to another that enables the latter 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. The focus of this type of spiritual direction is on experience, not ideas, and specifically on the religious dimension of experience, in other words, that dimension of any experience that evokes the presence of the mysterious Other whom we call God. Moreover, this experience is viewed, not as an isolated event, but as an expression of the ongoing personal relationship God has established with each one of us.” It’s help with one’s relationship with God, a relationship initiated by God when he creates us. And people seek it out because they want help to develop that relationship. By the way, both Catholics and Protestants and what we might call seekers are intrigued with the idea of talking with someone who promises to listen and to try to help them with their relationship with God.

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