spiritual director

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The Old Santa Ynez Inn, which housed the other seven monks, burned down, taking with it the office and apartment of the Lake Shrine’s spiritual director, Satyananda.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

The sister said she had told her then-boyfriend and the family’s spiritual director at the time, and also investigators in 1983, but considered the whole episode insignificant.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2023

At the time, he was spiritual director of a convent in Slovenia.

From Reuters • Dec. 19, 2022

It might mean reading philosophy to explore various worldviews or working with a clergy person or spiritual director.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2022

A certain Frate Bernardo of the Gesuati, who then passed for a learned ecclesiastic, acted as his spiritual director, and used to read at his request portions of the Holy Scriptures aloud to him.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo