London: Dawn Eden, Author of "Thrill of the Chaste" to Speak at Newman House

Independent Catholic News
March 5, 2014

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Dawn Eden

There is a rare chance to hear writer Dawn Eden when she comes to speak at Newman House in Gower Street this Friday, 7 March at 7pm.

Dawn is the author of 'My Peace I give you – Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints' and also 'The Thrill of the Chaste - finding fulfilment while keeping your clothes on'.

An ex-rock journalist, she is a convert from Judaism and someone for whom sex abuse (from a janitor in a synagogue and from her mother’s friends) was a reality from which she recovered. She is passionate about our need to find healing in Christ and through his saints and she is very keen to encourage the Church to reach out and get wiser about how to help victims.

Those who came to her talk last year asked: ”Why isn’t every seminarian in the Diocese here, and every youth worker…. and every speaker on the Catholic Church in the media?”

"Eden’s powerful witness to hope shows that evil never has the last word” wrote Francis Phillips in the Catholic Herald.

Bishop Hugh Gilbert, OSB, from Aberdeen Diocese, said: “It is worth stressing that her talks are not relevant only to those who have experienced sexual abuse, nor is she intent on raising spectres from the past. It is on the broader theme of the wisdom available within the Catholic tradition for coming to terms with suffering.”

Dawn will be speaking at Newman House after the Way of the Cross which starts at 6pm