John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Spirituality: Carl Goldberg, Understanding Shame, p. 57
Shame.... derives from a sense of betrayal - the shocking or startling realization that we are frail, vulnerable and finite beings, no different than the vulnerable people around us. The function of shame, as a self process, is to confront us with the impact of our tenuous existence as human beings.
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