The opposite of gratitude is, of course, ingratitude. So grievous was the matter of ingratitude in the mind of Ignatius of Loyola that he wrote a letter to Simon Rodriguez stating, It seems to me in the light of the Divine Goodness … that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord and by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory. For it is a forgetting of the graces, benefits and blessings received…. On the contrary, the grateful acknowledgement of blessings and gifts received is loved
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