Magis Mary: Exploring Feminine Images of God (McGinnis)
Magis Mary: Exploring Feminine Images of God
Presenter: Pamela McGinnis is Mission & Renewal
Associate for Maryland Province Jesuits. She assists in leading and coordinating Ignatian retreats: Ignatian Leadership for
Mission (week-long retreats for faculty and staff of Jesuit institutions) and Magis (an Eighteen-month program for lay Ignatian
formation). Formerly, she worked in management and technology including senior positions in financial services industry. She
has been married 19 years and is the mother of a 12-year-old son. The workshop begins with an examination of the predominant use of male images in society and a comparison to the
limited use of female images, in order to understand the impact on both genders, individually and to society. Through reason
and faith, this discourse breaks open the topic of images in five parts: (1.) exploring various observations that form argument
as to why this subject is important; (2.) a focus on educating about the psychological, historical, and theological aspects
of the making of God-images; (3.) raising awareness of one’s own or another’s image of God, as discovered through
prayer and helping relationships; (4.) moving from reason to faith, in order to experiment with new images of God; (5.) Through
retreat discussion/reflection (the heart of the presentation), the focus shifts to remembering, naming, and embracing feminine
images of God (specifically, praying with Mary), through the use of the Spiritual Exercises.
Item #ISC08-C10
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