Letters

Anne Lastman's Remarkable book 'Redeeming Grief'

Fr Raymond Wells

Contents - Jul 2008 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Significance of World Youth Day 2008 - Michael Gilchrist Liturgy: Archbishop Coleridge calls for an end to liturgical experimentation - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Abortion: A false concept of moral equivalence - Babette Francis Selective tolerance: Queensland University Student Union censures Catholic student group - Allison Atkins WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Juventutem Australia: young people devoted to the traditional liturgy - Alice Woolven WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Authentic Catholicism: a fertile ground for vocations to flourish - Fr Anthony Denton FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God? - Br Barry Coldrey CFC Religious faith and the power of music and song - Andrw Kania Liturgy: Why Paul VI saw liturgical abuses as the 'smoke of Satan' - Cardinal Virgilio Noe WORLD YOUTH DAY: Turin Shroud display in Melbourne to coincide with World Youth Day - Max Crockett Letters: Anne Lastman's Remarkable book 'Redeeming Grief' - Fr Raymond Wells Letters: Culture of life - Fr Bernard McGrath Letters: Vatican II - John Schmid Letters: Buddha in church in South Brisbane - Richard Stokes Letters: Climate concerns - Dr Brian E. Lloyd Books: Cardinal Pell's new Mass Book - This Is The Mass Books: TURMOIL AND TRUTH, by Philip Trower - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: SERMONS PREACHED ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS, by John Henry Newman - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD2000 Books Reflection: The Real Presence: 'an essential element of the deposit of faith' - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

Charles Francis' review of Anne Lastman's remarkable book Redeeming Grief (April AD2000) inspired me to purchase a copy.

I found it refreshing to discover a faith-filled lady sharing so positively in the healing ministry of the Church. Priests are called 'wounded healers' (Hebrews 5:1-5). Anne, too, although she doesn't share the power to dispense grace and forgiveness, can be called a wounded healer, as she shows others (over 1,000) that forgiveness is available and real because she has been there, knows their pain, and knows the embrace and forgiveness of a loving and merciful Jesus.

Anne's book is a classic - it should be in the hands of every bishop, priest, deacon, seminarian, doctor and politician. Maybe AD2000 readers could provide some of the above-mentioned people with a copy. Hopefully some of my brother priests might insert a copy of Charles Francis' review of Anne's book in their Parish Bulletin. [Editor: An excellent idea].

FR RAYMOND WELLS
Taroona, Tas

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 6 (July 2008), p. 15