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Registration Closed: Discernment of Spirits for Lent and Beyond Webinar with Susan Brinkmann, OCDS on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 8PM ET

Drawing upon the writings of St. Ignatius, the Carmelite saints, and the spiritual masters, Susan Brinkmann OCDS will help you to use this Lenten season to learn how to discern God’s will for your life. This webinar will teach you how to tell the difference between God’s voice, your own voice, and the voice of the devil when you are facing important decisions in life. Susan will address some of the common lies the enemy uses on women that can undermine our ability to discern God’s voice and offer direction on how to uproot those lies in order to fully embrace your God-given vocation in life.

In this webinar, participants will learn about:

How to form the right disposition for discerning God's will
Consolations and desolations and how they can help us - or prevent us - from discerning God's will
The various means God gives us to discern His will
How to discern if an inspiration is coming from God, yourself, or the devil

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START: Tuesday, February 25 at 8:00 PM US/Eastern
END: Tuesday, February 25 at 9:00 PM US/Eastern

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  • Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

    Susan Brinkmann, O.C.D.S., is an author and award-winning journalist is a member of the Third Order of Discalced Carmelites. She serves as Director of New Age Research for Women of Grace® and is a frequent guest on EWTN’s Women of Grace® television show. She is the founder of Live Catholic, an educational nonprofit devoted to teaching authentic Catholic prayer in the Carmelite tradition to the faithful. Susan formerly worked as a Correspondent for the Catholic Standard & Times, the newspaper for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

    For the last 10 years she has been the lead researcher for Women of Grace’s New Age Q&A Blog which is the largest blog of its kind in the world. The library of information now exceeds 1600 entries on everything from acupuncture and angels to wicca and yoga.

    She has also authored seventeen books, including The Learn to Discern Compendium: Is It Christian or New Age which has an imprimatur from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Avila Institute published her book, A Catholic Guide to Mindfulness which educates the Catholic faithful about the Buddhist practice of mindfulness and how it differs from authentic Catholic spirituality, teaching and thought. Along with Johnnette Williams, she co-authored the Young Women of Grace Study Program which teaches girls ages 13+ what it means to be authentically feminine. Susan’s Like a Catholic series which introduces Carmelite spirituality to the faithful. This series includes Pray Like a Catholic, Live Like a Catholic, Mindful Like a Catholic, and Fight Like a Catholic, all of which have imprimaturs from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Her daily devotional, entitled Day by Day in the Little Way: 365 Reflections on the Teachings of St. Therese of Lisieux introduces devotees to the Little Way of Spiritual Childhood.

    In the fall of 2024, Viident Publications launched Susan’s new series of Catholic women’s novels entitled The Chronicles of Ariella, a gripping saga of murder, romance and redemption that spans six novels and 2000 years of Church history.

    Her national journalism awards include the Bernadine-O’Connor Award for Pro-Life Journalism, the Eileen Egan Journalism Award from Catholic Relief Services, and numerous awards from the Catholic Press Association and the Philadelphia Press Association.