The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness: Ten Steps to Healing
2021 Illumination Book Awards, Bronze Medal: Spirituality

Forgiveness is hard. But Jesus knows how much we need it. True forgiveness can be complicated because the pain of betrayal, loss, deception, and personal attack clings tightly to our emotions, memories, even our bodies. We may intend to forgive yet become stuck in our own mixed motives, others’ silence or anger, and the skewed stories we believe and tell about our lives.

In The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, Marina McCoy delves into the principles of Ignatian spirituality and uses gentle honesty to lay out 10 steps toward forgiveness, including:
  • Sort out true desires
  • Honor anger while deepening compassion
  • Make friends with time
  • Create a new story
  • . . . and more.

Each chapter offers stories, real-life steps to take, and a powerful prayer for healing 

Forgiveness is hard, but it’s also possible—with our “habits of mercy” and God’s abundant grace.
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The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness: Ten Steps to Healing
2021 Illumination Book Awards, Bronze Medal: Spirituality

Forgiveness is hard. But Jesus knows how much we need it. True forgiveness can be complicated because the pain of betrayal, loss, deception, and personal attack clings tightly to our emotions, memories, even our bodies. We may intend to forgive yet become stuck in our own mixed motives, others’ silence or anger, and the skewed stories we believe and tell about our lives.

In The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, Marina McCoy delves into the principles of Ignatian spirituality and uses gentle honesty to lay out 10 steps toward forgiveness, including:
  • Sort out true desires
  • Honor anger while deepening compassion
  • Make friends with time
  • Create a new story
  • . . . and more.

Each chapter offers stories, real-life steps to take, and a powerful prayer for healing 

Forgiveness is hard, but it’s also possible—with our “habits of mercy” and God’s abundant grace.
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The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness: Ten Steps to Healing

The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness: Ten Steps to Healing

by Marina Berzins McCoy
The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness: Ten Steps to Healing

The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness: Ten Steps to Healing

by Marina Berzins McCoy

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2021 Illumination Book Awards, Bronze Medal: Spirituality

Forgiveness is hard. But Jesus knows how much we need it. True forgiveness can be complicated because the pain of betrayal, loss, deception, and personal attack clings tightly to our emotions, memories, even our bodies. We may intend to forgive yet become stuck in our own mixed motives, others’ silence or anger, and the skewed stories we believe and tell about our lives.

In The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, Marina McCoy delves into the principles of Ignatian spirituality and uses gentle honesty to lay out 10 steps toward forgiveness, including:
  • Sort out true desires
  • Honor anger while deepening compassion
  • Make friends with time
  • Create a new story
  • . . . and more.

Each chapter offers stories, real-life steps to take, and a powerful prayer for healing 

Forgiveness is hard, but it’s also possible—with our “habits of mercy” and God’s abundant grace.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780829450071
Publisher: Loyola Press
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARINA BERZINS MCCOY is a professor of philosophy at Boston College who works on themes of vulnerability, rhetoric, and self-knowledge, among other topics. She is also a married mom to two adult children. Along with her teaching vocation, Marina enjoys accompanying others as a spiritual director and volunteering at a men’s prison, leading discussions of spirituality.

Table of Contents

Prologue vii

Step 1 Find Your Desire 1

Step 2 Embrace Being a Creature and. Name Your Inner Pharisee 23

Step 3 Honor Anger but Deepen Compassion 35

Step 4 Trust in Abundant Grace 53

Step 5 Leave behind the Locked Room (Forgive Yourself) 67

Step 6 Let Go and Make Friends with Time 81

Step 7 Create New Narratives 97

Step 8 Embrace the Child but Become the Parent 111

Resting Point Consider a Ritual of Closure 119

Step 9 Cultivate Habits of Mercy 127

Step 10 Celebrate 145

Endnotes 157

Bibliography 161

Acknowledgments 165

About the Author 169

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