Father and Joe E476: Spiritual Desolation — Don’t Make Permanent Decisions in Spiritual Darkness

Most episodes of Father and Joe assume that we are either in a good spiritual place or at least trying to move toward one. But what happens when we are not? What happens when prayer feels empty, hope feels thin, God feels distant, and the temptation is to quit, change everything, or decide that we have failed? Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks use the wisdom of **Saint Ignatius of Loyola** to explore spiritual desolation: the heaviness of spirit that can bring darkness, sadness, tepidity,...