Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

So a lot of people ask, often, how do I get a spiritual director or even the question,

do I need a spiritual director?

Because if you start reading any spiritual books, if you're reading in the lives of saints,

one of the things you usually come across is that these people, the men and women, they

had some kind of spiritual director.

And so people start panicking and think, do I need one?

I think I need a spiritual director.

Now, it can always be helpful or often be helpful to have a spiritual guide, some kind

of mentor, some kind of person who's there to walk with you.

I mean, that's the model of Christianity is that Jesus, the rabbi, the master, invites

the disciples into discipleship.

There's a certain element of that when it comes to spiritual directors, that we don't

go it alone, we don't have to do it on our own.

The reality, of course, is that there might be a little bit of a dearth of spiritual directors

who are competent and trained.

Now, there are some places that are training spiritual directors and pumping out, pumping

out is that the right word?

I'm not sure.

But they're forming some people who are going to do this in fantastic ways.

But you still might not know them.

You still might not be able to track down a spiritual director for yourself.

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