Retrieving one’s divine identity is the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit. This presentation for spiritual directors examines more deeply the nature of grace (the presence and activity of God) in the conversion process as operative in the Spiritual Exercises. The video combines personal and communal prayer, content, self-reflection on grace as experienced through directing the Spiritual Exercises and spiritual conversation.
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Damian Zynda, Th.D., is Director of Ignatian Identity/Mission & Ministry at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY. She received a doctorate in Systematic Theology and Christian Spirituality from the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology in 2004. She holds Certifications in Spiritual Direction from Loyola House, Guelph, Ontario, Supervision of Spiritual Directors from St. Meinrad’s School of Theology in St. Meinrad Indiana, and Advanced Jesuit Studies from Boston College. This summer she had hoped to inaugurate the Spiritual Directors Institute (a two summer Certification in forming people to give the Spiritual Exercises), but due to COVID the opening has been postponed. Since 2004 Damian has been on faculty in the Christian Spirituality and Master of Ministry Programs at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska where she has helped form spiritual directors in the Ignatian Tradition. Damian is the author of Archbishop Oscar Romero: A Disciple Who Revealed the Glory of God (University of Scranton Press, 2010). Damian is an experienced spiritual and retreat director and supervisor who has directed retreats in Spain, Italy, Canada and across the United States.