Remembering God's Mercy
Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from Painful Memories
by Dawn Eden
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Pub Date Feb 26 2016 | Archive Date Aug 01 2016
Description
Dawn Eden’s My Peace I Give You helped thousands find peace after abuse and established her as the leading Catholic authority on recovering from traumatic stress. In Remembering God’s Mercy, Eden—who suffered childhood sexual abuse that left her with PTSD—describes how she was inspired by the example of Pope Francis, St. Ignatius, and St. Peter Faber, all of whom suffered from their own painful experiences and followed a similar path to healing.
Pope Francis has spoken openly about how a life-threatening bout of pneumonia affected his relationship with God, saying that recognizing and accepting the power of memories to color perceptions is essential to seeing God in all things and experiencing inner peace. The pope was influenced by the examples of Ignatius and Faber. Ignatius suffered the loss of his mother at a young age and was sent by his father to live with another family. He also fought as a mercenary soldier as a young man and experienced the trauma of war and physical pain. Faber, a student of Ignatius and among the early members of the Society of Jesus, suffered from bouts of depression and anxiety for years. He wrote in his dairy how he applied Ignatius’s spiritual practices in a way that enabled him to rise above his mental suffering to grow closer with God.
Through the wisdom of these three Jesuits, Eden developed an Ignatian model of healing:
Acknowledge your memories.
Accept that they change the way you see God, your fate, and other people.
Allow God to transform your memories by coloring the past and present with his story of salvation.
Eden examines how Jesus’ wounds can bring healing to your own hurt through prayer, Mass, the Sacraments (particularly confession), and the life of the Church. In each chapter, she will engage you with specific steps to take using the most famous Ignatian prayer, the Suscipe—Latin for “receive”—to transform your past traumas into an offering to God that is united with Jesus’ own self-offering.
Features & Benefits
The book is being released during the Jubilee of Mercy declared by Pope Francis.
Dawn Eden's first book, The Thrill of the Chaste, which is available in both nondenominational and Catholic editions, has sold more than 20,000 copies. Her second book, My Peace I Give You, has sold more than 10,000 copies.
Eden maintains a busy publicity and speaking schedule in the United States and in Europe. She regularly speaks on college campuses and at conferences. She has been featured in National Catholic Reporter and on NBC’s Today, EWTN's The Journey Home and Women of Grace, and on numerous radio programs and podcasts.
A Note From the Publisher
Born into a Jewish family in New York City, Eden lost her faith as a teenager and became an agnostic. During the 1990s, she worked as a rock journalist in New York City, interviewing oldies and classic rock performers. She went on to work for the New York Post and the Daily News.
At age thirty-one, Eden underwent a dramatic conversion to Christianity, seeking Baptism as a Protestant; six years later, she entered the Catholic Church. She wrote the original edition of The Thrill of the Chaste while Protestant; its international success led her to revise it from a Catholic perspective in 2015. Both The Thrill of the Chaste and Eden’s 2012 book on healing from childhood sexual abuse, My Peace I Give You,have been featured in the New York Times and on numerous EWTN programs.
Eden received her pontifical licentiate in sacred theology from the Dominican House of Studies in 2014 and is working toward a doctorate at Mundelein Seminary. Currently based in the Chicago area, she has spoken about chastity, spiritual healing, and conversion to thousands of people throughout North America and abroad.
Advance Praise
“By showing how every memory can become a place of encounter with God, Dawn Eden gently reveals how we can be freed from the prison of our wounds, not by fleeing pain but by letting God turn it into gift. Compelling and direct, drawing honestly from her own painful memories, Remembering God’s Mercy is a rich and sensitive meditation on Francis’s ‘Revolution of Tenderness.’ Whether studied as theology, used as a companion on retreat, or read in quiet moments, it is a life-changing book.”
Austen Ivereigh
Author of The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
“This is a deeply thought-provoking Ignatian reflection on what pain, and even trauma, can teach us about our longing for healing, redemption, and resurrection.”
Rev. Hans Zollner S.J.
President of the Centre for Child Protection of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
“Dawn Eden’s openness to the Holy Spirit is evident on every page of Remembering God’s Mercy, drawing you into the same. Open this book and experience God lifting a veil and enveloping you in his Divine Mercy.”
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Editor at National Review
“This is an exceptional book. Remembering God’s Mercy breaks new ground and adds significantly to works about healing from trauma and the painful memories that follow.”
Rev. James Kubicki , S.J.
National Director of the Apostleship of Prayer
“Dawn Eden manages to flawlessly bring together Jesus, Mary, the apostles, Pope Francis, and St. Ignatius. It is an inspired work. Like Mary, I treasured up and pondered the insights.”
Rev. Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J.
Author of Reimagining the Ignatian Examen
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781594716362 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Flávia G, Reviewer
This book takes you into a journey of spiritual healing: the healing of your memories. The teaching and history of Pope Francis leads the way where you are invited to surrender yourself to our Heavenly Father and dive into His mercy. They are not only abstracts ideas, but Dawn Eden, using many times her own life stories, provides many practical ways you can use this precious information.
Nancy P, Media/Journalist
There’s at least one person in everyone’s life, more than one if you’re fortunate. Being around that person often makes you feel better, braver, and more peaceful After a conversation with the person, you feel loved and cared for.
This may date me, but to me the concept is most fully expressed in the 1990s Rich Mullins song, “Let Mercy Lead.” The refrain includes the line:
“Let mercy lead
let love be the strength in your legs
and in every footprint that you take there’ll be a drop of grace.”
This quality doesn’t mean the person is always perfect, or you always have that experience with him or her. But it does mean that in many interactions, the person is a conduit of grace.
Sometimes the one who “leads with mercy” is a family member, or a dear friend. Sometimes, the person is one we know only as an acquaintance, or only meet on one occasion.
Sometimes, that person can be an author. One such authors is Dawn Eden, who writes from such a place of peace and spiritual depth that nearly everything she writes contains a “drop of grace.”
Her latest book, Remembering God’s Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from Painful Memories, is an excellent example of this gift. As Eden writes in the preface: “I wrote this book to share the good news that Jesus Christ heals our memories.”
You can read the rest of my review at the link below:
Eden’s 2012 book, My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints, was chiefly written for those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Even for those readers, like me, who have not experienced abuse, that book was relevant and edifying. That book was part memoir and part meditations on what the saints can teach us about wholeness of body, mind and spirit, even in the face of searing memories and experiences.
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