{"id":12525,"date":"2026-06-26T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:33:32","slug":"discernment-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2026\/06\/26\/discernment-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Discernment, Explained!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We most often hear the term \u201cdiscernment\u201d when a man or woman prayerfully considers a religious vocation. This is a helpful context in which to think of the virtue of discernment, which all Christians are called to develop, lay and religious alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a person hears a \u201ccall,\u201d he cannot simply go \u2014 he must first figure out where the call is coming from. It\u2019s not enough to simply have an idea of becoming a priest, a sister, a missionary, a husband, a wife \u2014 the idea needs a good, thorough background check. This is discernment, which \u201cunmasks the lie of temptation, whose object appears to be good\u2026when in reality its fruit is death,\u201d says the Catechism. (CCC 2846)<\/span><\/p>\n

We run this background check of discernment on our feelings, our intentions, and our inclinations under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and through a diligent regimen of prayer and reflection. \u201cThe Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius\u201d is highly regarded as a useful tool for spiritual discernment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9LPi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We most often hear the term \u201cdiscernment\u201d when a man or woman prayerfully considers a religious vocation. This is a helpful context in which to think of the virtue of discernment, which all Christians are called to develop, lay and religious alike. When a person hears a \u201ccall,\u201d he cannot simply go \u2014 he must…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12527,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions\/12527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}