Marina Berzins McCoy is a professor at Boston College, where she teaches philosophy and in the BC PULSE service-learning program. She is the author of The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness and Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Philosophy. She and her husband are the parents to two young adults and live in the Boston area.
I imagine that we all have different styles for processing feelings, ranging from total avoidance to sorting through them deliberately and slowly to wanting to jump in and get...
Help me live into new life. Help me to unclench my tight fists. Breathe new life into my lungs, hands, feet, voice. These are just three of the petitions...
God of welcome, God of embrace,
As ocean waves rise and fall,
as stormy clouds gather and clear,
as moving winds blow and subside,
So, too, does my anger move me.
Be my raft...
Pray with an Ignatian contemplation on the Parable of the Lost Sheep from Luke 15:4–7. This exercise is inspired by Step Two in The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness.
The exercise...
Forgiveness can be complicated. I can think of times in my life when I wanted to forgive, but I felt “stuck” in something that stood in the way. For...