Course Number: IMSD-602-01
Course Title: SD2: Directing Prayer
Instructor: Fr. Boniface Hicks, O.S.B
Number of Credits: 2
Course Meeting Time: Thursdays 8:00pm-9:15pm ET from Jan 16 to May 8, 2025
Registration deadline: Dec 20, 2024
Registration will be limited to 35 students per course.
IMSD 602 – SPIRITUAL DIRECTION II: DIRECTING PRAYER
The participants will learn the foundational dynamics of spiritual direction through reading, lectures, and discussions. SD 2 will expand upon what students have learned in SD 1, deepening their experiences on the road to expand their own spiritual enlightenment while teaching them how to assist others traveling the same path. The principal focus on SD2 is on offering spiritual direction to help directees deepen their lives of prayer.
Additional Information:
Pre-requisite: IMSD-601: SD1: Art of Accompaniment
This class consists of asynchronous interactive video conference on Zoom and one pre-recorded lecture each week.
Topics include:
- Prayer as a relationship
- Directing through desolation and nights
- Poverty, silence, hiddenness
- Liturgical prayer, lectio, adoration
- Discerning God’s Will
This course is conducted online through a combination of synchronous, interactive, online video-conferenced meetings in the evening, reading assignments, and asynchronous online discussions and videos through the Schoology educational software platform. Like all IMF courses, it will follow the Saint Vincent academic calendar.
Note: While this course is available to anyone, it is a required course for the Spiritual Direction program and will be taught with spiritual direction students specifically in mind. All who have completed SD1 are welcome to take this course for credit or to audit.
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