Marina Berzins McCoy

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.
The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness by Marina Berzins McCoy

Marina's Book

  • The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness

Storing Consolations Like the Flowers

St. Ignatius offers us a key principle for how to navigate the ups and downs of life: use the gifts of consolation wisely. He counsels that in times of...

The Continuing Gifts of the Resurrection

This spring, I have enjoyed watching the birds come to our backyard birdfeeder. After a long winter, I refilled the feeder and within a day or two, enjoyed the...

Lenten Read-Along: Why Should We Have a Resting Point in Our Process of Forgiveness?

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...

Lenten Read-Along: A Prayer for New Life

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...

Lenten Read-Along: Examen of God’s Compassion and Mercy for Me

I begin by giving thanks for the good gifts God has given me so far. I ask God for the gifts of insight and illumination into my own...

Lenten Read-Along: Prayer in a Time of Anger

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...