Part 1: Rules of Discernment Talk - Fr. Francis Ching 程明聰神父 (in Cantonese)

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(Download the audio and notes of the talk: https://resources.fll.cc/zh/rules-of-discernment-talk-fr-francis-ching-2018-1-6) Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola - Translation by Fr. Francis Ching in Cantonese based on Fr. Timothy Gallagher's English Translation. The First Principle and Foundation: God created human beings to praise, reverence, and serve God, and by doing this, to save their souls. God created all other things on the face of the earth to help fulfill this purpose. From this it follows that we are to use the things of this world only to the extent that they help us to this end, and we ought to rid ourselves of the things of this world to the extent that they get in the way of this end. For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things as much as we are able, so that we do not necessarily want health rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor, a long rather than a short life, and so in all the rest, so that we ultimately desire and choose only what is most conducive for us to the end for which God created us. Modes of Discernment: 1. divine manifestation that leaves little room for uncertainty; e.g., St. Paul’s encounter with Jesus 2. Consolation,desolation, temptations 3. Indifference and rational considerations 程明聰神父， 1972年出生於香港，1986年随隨家人移民加拿大。 在安省滑鐵盧攻讀大學期間，他經歷歸向耶穌的轉化，從此積極投入滑鐵盧華人天主教團體 及 ECCCLC （加拿大東岸天主教華人生活營，簡稱「加東」） 的工作。 程明聰神父於2005年在加拿大晉鐸，是第一位加入 十字架同行者修會 (Companions of the Cross) 的華人神父。目前，他是「加東」的神師，並積極參與《生命恩泉》的福傳工作。 Fr. Francis is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 for his contribution to the Chinese Catholic Community.