Spiritual direction is a ministry in which one person, the spiritual director, helps another, the directee, become more aware of God’s self-communication in his or her life, respond to that self-communication, and live out the gifts of that relationship.
Spiritual direction is a ministry in the Church concerned with facilitating a person’s growth in intimacy with God which leads, as a consequence, to right relationship with all creation. The ministry has a long and revered history in the Christian tradition and has been practiced by lay people, vowed religious and ordained ministers.
