Giving Thanks.        “It seems to me in the light of the Divine Goodness, although others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins.” St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) wrote these words in a letter to a fellow Jesuit in 1542.       With Thanksgiving coming, we might pause to contemplate gratitude and ingratitude.        St. Ignatius, continues in that letter, For ingratitude “is a forgetting of the graces, benefits, and blessings received.  As such it is the cause, beginning, and origin of all sins and misfortunes.  On the contrary, the grateful acknowledgment of blessings and gifts received is loved and esteemed not only on earth but in heaven.”       What is the greatest sin, and root of all sin?   For St. Ignatius, ingratitude .        What is the cause of all our misfortunes?  Ingratitude.   (Remember the book from the 1970's, “From Prison to Praise,” by Merlin Carothers?  Gratitude expresses itself in praise, and Carothers found that praise turns