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Spiritual Direction at The St. James Center for Spiritual Formation

Spiritual Direction is a privileged time and place to reflect about one’s relationship with God. The focus of Spiritual Direction is one’s life with God as it is lived out in all of life’s experiences. Ultimately, Spiritual Direction is the process of coming home to one’s deepest self.

One might come to Spiritual Direction for a number of reasons:

• Identify and trust your own experiences of God.

• Integrate spirituality into your daily life.

• Discern and make difficult choices.

• Share struggles, losses, or disappointments.

• Find encouragement and affirmation in one’s spiritual journey.

• Grow in relationship with God, self, others and creation.

Benefits of Spiritual Direction

• Having the support of a spiritual companion.

• Exploring a closer relationship with God in the midst of a busy life.

• More clarity about making decisions in accord with God’s desire for you.

• Process of coming home to one’s deepest self.

What to Discuss with a Spiritual Director

• Your desires and hopes to love and serve God.

• Your struggles and your questions about God and prayer.

• Your experience of God’s presence or absence in daily life.

Making Plans to See a Spiritual Director

• Appointments are normally scheduled for one hour.

• Meetings with a Spiritual Director usually take place about once per month.

• Telephone the St. James Center for Spiritual Formation at 225-387-5141 to make an appointment with our trained spiritual director, Deacon Pat Lyle.

Introducing Deacon Pat Lyle

Deacon Pat Lyle was ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church, December 19, 1986. She was trained in Spiritual Direction at the Society of St. John the Evangelist, West Newbury, Massachusetts, 1994-1995. She has been active in Spiritual Direction since that time. Pat meets regularly with her spiritual director, and is a member of a spiritual directors’ peer group.

She was trained in Clinical Pastoral Education at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Baton Rouge, 1983. She has been trained in ministry to the aging, ministry to those in transition, grief work, and ministry to those facing death and dying.

Pat has been Spiritual Director for three Diocesan women’s retreats over the past ten years: the Creativity Retreat; Women in Recovery retreat; and, the Joy Conference. She has served as Spiritual Director for many Cursillo weekends and for six Kairos weekends at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women.

Pat is a 1956 graduate of Louisiana State University with a B.S. in business. She is married to Don Lyle, and they have two children and six grandchildren.