Of the difficulties we may encounter in finding a director, another author writes: We believe, nonetheless, that . . . at times it is not possible, at least not immediately, to find the ideal person. In such cases, we must continue trying until we find this person . . . since the act itself of manifesting our temptations weakens their grip and renders them more intelligible to the one who so manifests them. . . . We should never cease to search for such a person and to ask the Lord that he grant us to find a good confessor or a spiritual person who “knows the deceits and malicious designs (of
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