Mother's Pain

A wounded child is one tear too many in this world. How can we remain indifferent to it when our fraternal duty is to ensure that this tear can dry?

Father Jean-Yves Ducourneau, having himself been scorned and abandoned by his mother, denounces child abuse to better assure us of the loving presence of God, however invisible and insensible it may sometimes be.

Thus, in the life of an abused child, often from the intrauterine nest, a strange battle is played out made of despair and hope, of maternal evil and God's good, a battle whose outcome, divine and positive, is certain, even if the human outcome can be tragic.

We are invited to participate in this battle by being beacons of light for children who are in the darkness of maternal evil. We will then find the words that will help fight against the evils of the absence of love or maternal rejection. Now, we are certain that the first soldier in this fight is the Father in Heaven himself. He never ceases to gratify each one with his good from God, thus telling us again that he is the source of all true love, maternal and paternal, from which all human love flows.

Through this poignant testimony, a new perspective is possible: opening up to the certainty that every person is deeply lovable and loved by God, in a realistic and promising rereading of life.

Born in 1960, Father Jean-Yves Ducourneau, a priest of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul, was a prison chaplain before becoming a military chaplain. He served in particular in the Foreign Legion. He participated in external operations carried out in Lebanon, Kosovo, Ivory Coast and Afghanistan, among others.

Presentation: Softcover, paperback

Author: Jean-Yves Ducourneau, preface by Tim Guénard

Format: 14 cm × 21 cm × 1.6 cm, 312 pages

Weight: 400 g

Publisher: EdB, Editions Béatitudes

ISBN: 9782703310532

Only in French