 On the other hand, you have these 14 rules, Ignatius calls them, that is practical guidelines that he composed 500 years ago, which are, and I say this advisedly after over 40 years of working with this, the most practical, effective, useful, accessible, understandable, applicable tool that we have in the entirety of our 2,000-year rich Catholic spiritual tradition for overcoming discouragement in the spiritual life.