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Fr. Wayne Sattler: Enough Light to See, Enough Darkness to Doubt: The Discernment of Spirits – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Wayne Sattler: Enough Light to See, Enough Darkness to Doubt: The Discernment of Spirits

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By Fr. Wayne Sattler, Catholic Exchange, November 26, 2024

Fr. Wayne Sattler has been a priest of the Diocese of Bismarck since 1997. He served as an instructor in two of their diocesan high schools for three years, a pastor for sixteen years, and lived a life of prayerful solitude as a diocesan hermit for six years….

Editor’s Note: Fr. Wayne Sattler’s book, And You Will Find Rest: What God Does in Prayer, is available from Sophia Institute Press.

Avatar photoFrom the very dawn of creation, our need to carefully discern spirits has been clear.  With all the generations of saints who have diligently put themselves to this practice, you might think we would have it down to a science.  But discernment of spirits is not a science; it is a battle.

In this battle, there is no rhyme or reason to “the tactics of the devil” (Eph. 6:11).  Flesh and blood are not able to calculate or predict the principalities and powers with whom we struggle against.  Five centuries before the birth of Christ, the Chinese emperor Sun Tzu aptly observed how “all warfare is based on deception.”  This is particularly true in our battle with the enemy Jesus identified as the “father of lies” (Jn. 8:44).  In this struggle, a wise spiritual director of mine, Father Paul Murray, O.P., likened our discernment of spirits to a journey at dusk.  For there is always enough light to see and enough darkness to doubt.  …

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