A Letter Of Consolation

A companion volume to be read in sequence to In Memoriam. Six months after the death of his mother, during his second protracted stay at the Trappist Abbey of the Genesee, Nouwen found himself deeply in touch with his own grief over the loss of his mother. He wanted to share his feelings with someone "who could really understand what was happening inside me. And who could better understand me than my own father?" The result: A Letter of Consolation. Originally a strictly personal letter, the published text was the inevitable result of the urging of friends. A deeply moving account, and, like In Memoriam, a healing gift to the bereaved.

"On the long road it's good to have Nouwen and his divining rod. Deftly he bends towards the drop of spiritual wisdom caked in the most ordinary things."

- Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., author of Dead Man Walking

(Harper and Row, 1982, Pp.96/Harper Collins, 2009)

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