Dearest Sister Wendy: A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship - Paperback
by Wendy Beckett (Author), Robert Ellsberg (Author)
This book is based on several hundred letters, exchanged on an almost daily basis, during the last three years of Sister Wendy's life. Initially they dealt with lives of saints, the meaning of holiness, and the spiritual life, but they soon expanded into a deep and intimate exchange that encompassed our whole lives, the subject of love, suffering, joy, and the presence of grace in everyday life. For Sister Wendy--by calling and temperament, a hermit--this involved an expansion of her spiritual and emotional horizons that prepared her for her final days.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Cover design: Regina Gelfer
Cover photo by Lou Boileau. Used with permission.
ORBIS LOGO: ISBN: 978-1-62698-475-2
Sister Wendy, who died in Dec 2018, was a consecrated hermit who lived on the grounds of a Carmelite monastery in England. For some years she achieved highly unlikely fame when she was discovered by the BBC and given her own TV series to common on art. From this there followed many books on art and spirituality. But eventually she reverted to her solitary life. Many had urged Sister Wendy to write more about her interior life--but she always refused. That is what changed in the course of our correspondence, to the point that she observed that the book I had been seeking was to be found in our correspondence.
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