Sheila Cassidy Livres

Warm, honest, and highly personal, Sharing the Darkness meditates on the mystery of our wounded humanity, trying to wrest meaning and a spirituality of caring out of the reality of suffering. With unforgettable portraits of courage, love, and grace in its human form, Sheila Cassidy interweaves her own story and those of her patients with moving reflection on the gospels. What she ultimately shows is that the way to God is not different from the way to our own humanity.

The narrative follows Sheila Cassidy, a young doctor in Chile who becomes embroiled in the country's profound injustices. Her commitment to helping others leads to her arrest, imprisonment, and torture, ultimately resulting in her expulsion. The story highlights her resilience and the harsh realities faced during a tumultuous period in Chilean history.

Warm, honest, and highly personal, Sharing the Darkness meditates on the mystery of our wounded humanity, trying to wrest meaning and a spirituality of caring out of the reality of suffering. With unforgettable portraits of courage, love, and grace in its human form, Sheila Cassidy interweaves her own story and those of her patients with moving reflection on the gospels. What she ultimately shows is that the way to God is not different from the way to our own humanity.

Sheila Cassidy’s honest and wise books on suffering and healing have made her one of the UK’s best-loved and most popular writers on pastoral care and personal growth. She is widely known for her work in the hospice movement, and as a young doctor who survived torture for daring to give medical care to an opponent of the Pinochet regime in Chile. Her Catholic faith has led, comforted and sustained her for over sixty years. Now, in Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic, Cassidy writes: ‘I no longer attend Mass, I no longer avail myself of the sacraments, those “outward signs of inward grace” which sustained me in my earlier years. God is to be found outside the Church even more than in it: in nature, in people, in animals, in poetry and in all the wild and wonderful works of the Divine. God is everywhere, in everything shining forth, if we only care to look. ’

What is the point of Lent? If prayer and reading and self-denial are worth doing at this time of year, perhaps we should be doing them all the year round!Christianity is not a blueprint for repression but for joy: for a life of fulfilment beyond our wildest dreams. Jesus said ‘I have come that you may have life and have it to the full’. In short chapters suitable for individual reading or group study, and questions for meditation and reflection, Sheila Cassidy considers the word ‘LENT’ as an acronym for what it really means to live as a Christian today:L is for LOVEE is for EMPATHYN is quite simply for NO! T is for THANK YOU GOD A unique and refreshing addition to the DLT’s acclaimed library of Lent courses.