{"id":221417,"date":"2025-11-11T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosenwink.de\/?page_id=221417"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:46:01","slug":"geistliche-begleitung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rosenwink.de\/en\/geistliche-begleitung\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spiritual Direction<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I have come because I want to seek out those who have strayed from God. I want to bring them home again.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Jesus longs to bring us home. Through his Spirit, he is actively drawing people to himself \u2014 into a deeper relationship with God, with their own true self, and with others. We are always invited to open ourselves to this searching movement of Jesus, to his desire to heal, and to allow ourselves to be taken up into it.<\/p>\n

Spiritual direction is a form of pastoral care which, as I believe, God is growing for this time, in order to accompany people on their way home.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Two Definitions:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Spiritual Direction<\/strong> is a shared listening to the subtle, inner movements of the Holy Spirit. The Paraclete (John 14) is advocate, comforter, and true companion, who desires to lead every person, in every given moment, into a deeper relationship with God and into a life of greater freedom and love. Spiritual direction is phenomenological and mystagogical. Spiritual experiences in everyday life and within the conversation itself come into focus.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\"Spiritual Direction<\/strong> ist Hilfe, die ein Christ einer\/m anderen gibt, welche die suchende Person bef\u00e4higt auf Gottes pers\u00f6nliche Kommunikation zu ihr\/ihm zu achten, und diesem pers\u00f6nlichen, kommunizierenden Gott zu antworten, in der Intimit\u00e4t mit diesem Gott zu wachsen, und die Konsequenzen dieser Beziehung auszuleben.\u201c
(aus William Barry SJ, William Connolly SJ: The Practice of Spiritual Direction. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I will allure you and lead you into the wilderness,\nand there I will speak tenderly to your heart.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Hosea 2,16<\/div>
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Typical Themes That Bring People to Spiritual Direction<\/h5>