As we prepare to celebrate our national Thanksgiving holiday, who better to turn to than Ignatius of Loyola for a Thanksgiving insight that has both personal and public implications. Ignatius wrote this in a letter:
"It seems to me in the light of the Divine Goodness, although others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory. For it is a forgetting of the gracious benefits and blessings received." [1]
As we gather around our family tables across the country, many of us will allude to the gifts we have received as individuals and families, as well as the freedoms pledged in our nation’s foundational documents (but not yet fully realized for millions of us). We recognize that ingratitude is somehow beneath us, especially as we view the millions of the world’s refugees, those dying in Middle East wars, the dead and wounded in recent Paris attacks, and hundreds of millions without enough to eat.
