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Seventeenth Symbolon episode (“Living the Faith: A Love that Lasts: Discovering Authentic Love")
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both parts of the episode available on Formed.org
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Questions to answer:
- What are some of the characteristics of agape love? Why does agape love fulfill us in ways that eros alone cannot?
- How has music, media, and the entertainment industry distorted the meaning of love?
- What do you think it means that “man cannot fully find himself, except through a sincere gift of himself ”?
*E-mail answers to vincent@catholicgators.org
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- How does Fr. Gallagher's description of St. Igantius's approach to discerning God's will about poverty for the Jesuits help you better understand the second mode of discernment (what he calls "Attraction of the Heart")?
- Explain the role of time and of consolation in this mode.
- What is to be expected and understood about times of desolation in using this mode?
- What is meant by "sufficient clarity and understanding"?
- What is the necessary disposition of heart for discernment of God's will?
- What is the practical key for the concrete, individual process of discernment?
- What insights do you gain from Richard's experience of second mode discernment?
- What are the differences between being in a process of discernment and simply knowing that you need to discern something?
- What insights do you gain from Jessica's experience of second mode discernment?