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    The document describes an Emmaus Young Adult Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group that meets on Saturdays from 7:30-9:30pm in Room 2. The group's vision is to be a community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord and reflect this love in their ordinary lives. The group aims to help young people encounter Christ in each other and make the Eucharist the source and summit of their lives through ongoing conversion, sanctification, and mission. The remainder of the document outlines a talk on discernment of spirits, including what it is, the three types of spirits (divine, human, and diabolical), and how to discern spirits through prayer, study, experience

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    The document describes an Emmaus Young Adult Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group that meets on Saturdays from 7:30-9:30pm in Room 2. The group's vision is to be a community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord and reflect this love in their ordinary lives. The group aims to help young people encounter Christ in each other and make the Eucharist the source and summit of their lives through ongoing conversion, sanctification, and mission. The remainder of the document outlines a talk on discernment of spirits, including what it is, the three types of spirits (divine, human, and diabolical), and how to discern spirits through prayer, study, experience

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    The document describes an Emmaus Young Adult Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group that meets on Saturdays from 7:30-9:30pm in Room 2. The group's vision is to be a community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord and reflect this love in their ordinary lives. The group aims to help young people encounter Christ in each other and make the Eucharist the source and summit of their lives through ongoing conversion, sanctification, and mission. The remainder of the document outlines a talk on discernment of spirits, including what it is, the three types of spirits (divine, human, and diabolical), and how to discern spirits through prayer, study, experience

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    Discernment of Spirits

    The Emmaus Young Adult Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group


    Saturday 7.30pm-9.30pm, Room 2

    Vision:
    • A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love
    is reflected in their ordinary lives.

    Mission:
    • to be disciples of Christ according to His heart, through ongoing conversion, sanctification,
    and mission.
    • to journey with the young people and to encounter Christ in each other.
    • to help the young people put the Eucharist as the source and summit of their Christian lives.
    • to help the young people build their lives upon the rock which is Jesus, the Word of God, and
    to live in the power of the Holy Spirit.
    • to build community of believers who is charismatic and missionary in nature.
    Outline

    What is discernment of Spirits?


    Whose Spirit is it?
    Types of discernment of Spirits
    More practical observations
    Discernment of Spirits and Evangelization
    Examen

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    What is discernment of Spirits?

    Not all spirits are good spirits

    Biblical presuppositions:
    Galatians 5:16-25
    2 Peter 2:1-10
    1 John 4:1-6

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    Whose Spirit is it?

    Three types of Spirits:

    Divine Spirit Human Spirit Diabolical


    Spirit

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    Divine Spirit

    fits with teaching of Church; patience in suffering,


    serious; self-denial,
    gives light to the soul, sincerity and simplicity in conduct,
    docility, no attachments not even to the
    discretion: no hurriedness or gifts,
    exaggerations; great desire to imitate Christ in all
    humble thoughts; things (a very strong sign),
    confidence in God, gentleness,
    rightness of intention, kindness;

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    Diabolical Spirit

    spirit of falseness or lie, vanity,


    morbid curiousity, self-satisfaction,
    impertinent things, impatience,
    darkness, rebellion of the passions,
    restlessness in the soul, hypocrisy,
    a bold, obstinate spirit, pretense,
    many indiscretions, attachment to earthly things,
    pride, forgetfulness of Christ and of
    lack of hope, imitating him,
    disobedience, a false charity including bitter
    zeal,
    indiscretion.

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    Human Spirit

    Inclined to its own satisfactions


    Friend of pleasures
    Enemy of sufferings

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    Types of discernment

    • Acquired
    • Prayer
    • Study
    • Personal Experience
    • Infused

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    More practical observations

    • Watch the conduct of the people


    • Expect errors to be in disguise
    • Humble submissions to Christ’s teaching

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    Discernment and Evangelization

    • Confused world
    • False prophets
    • To speak up

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
    Examen

    A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord,
    and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.

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