This segment continues the exploration of practices to grow in holiness and the need for devotion to our mother, Mary to help us in the spiritual climb. It addresses again the need for prayer and the practice of humility and the other virtues, and as well witnesses to the great benefit of a spiritual director. It also speaks to the need for us to be healed of our wounds, as they can be openings for the enemy to detract from or discourage the path of holiness.
This segment also covers the topic of discernment and the importance of giving God your ‘fiat’, as well as some practical suggestions for spiritual protection. We share as well, at the very opening of the video, a prayer to discern spirits, which I have personally found very helpful in the spiritual battle. I highly recommend memorizing it, so that it can be brought to use at any time that you might find yourself in the midst of spiritual attack:
If you are of my Lord Jesus Christ, then you are welcome, in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit (making the sign of the cross). If you are not of my Lord Jesus Christ, then by His Holy Wound, Agonizing Passion, Cruel Death and his Glorious Resurrection, you are to be gone now, in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit.”
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