Vinita's Books
Ignatian Prayer
Looking Back on Prayer
We can look back on prayer in more than one way. Judge what is most helpful for you at this time.
Prayer at Different Life Stages
Look back on how prayer...
Spirituality
Living with Unexpected Change
“Living with unexpected change” describes the life of just about everybody I know. A marriage hits hard times thanks to extended illness or unemployment. A son or daughter defies...
Books
Forgiveness: Making Friends with Time
Marina Berzins McCoy’s new book, The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, may be one of the best resources for spiritual health available to people who are wounded. I have read...
Reflections
Staring Our Way to Recognition
Have you ever seen something that you could not identify as anything familiar, and so all you could do was stare at it in a rather stupid way? When...
Spiritual Exercises
Writing Spiritual Autobiography as It Relates to the Spiritual Exercises, Part 2
In terms of the Spiritual Exercises, one critical goal of writing a spiritual autobiography is to recognize God’s action in our past: God’s presence, grace, and gifts to us.
If...
Spiritual Exercises
Writing Spiritual Autobiography as It Relates to the Spiritual Exercises, Part 1
St. Ignatius understood the importance of reviewing one’s life when he built this practice into the Spiritual Exercises centuries ago. His emphasis was to help a person identify past...