by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Jun 14, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
by Vinita Hampton Wright Step 8: We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. The first part of the Spiritual Exercises is all about sin. Various prayer practices help the person think about all kinds of sin—sin of...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Jun 14, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
by Vinita Hampton Wright Step 7: We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. Step 7 might sound a lot like Step 6, but there is a difference between being ready for God to change us and actively asking God to do so. Asking is an act of openness and...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Jun 14, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
by Vinita Hampton Wright Step 6: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. At the heart of Ignatian Spirituality is the concept of spiritual freedom. This is not the free-so-I-can-do-whatever-I-want kind of freedom—which really...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Jun 14, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
by Vinita Hampton Wright Step 5: We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The language of step 5 in the Twelve Steps points to wisdom about sin and human nature. Referring to “the exact nature of our...
by Catherine Ruffing Drotleff | Jun 14, 2022 | Guest Reflection Series
by Vinita Hampton Wright Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. One of the first “assignments” given to people who seek spiritual direction in the Ignatian tradition is the writing of their spiritual story. The person spends...
