IN YOUR HANDS

Accompany in illness and prepare for a good death

The big things, the important things, are hidden in the small, in simplicity, in surrender. This is what the author repeats, in one way or another, in his song, because this book is a song.

These pages make us discover, through filial and believing memory, the beauty of creation and salvation embodied in a town in La Mancha, in the life of a simple, good man, an honest peasant and sincere believer, from a rural and pious family background.

Christian memories full of gratitude, depth, meaning. The story this book tells is not fantasy, it is not fiction, but a true story, the story of Candido.

We encounter fundamental themes of our existence: life, family, suffering, death, mourning, orphanhood, accompaniment to those who suffer, etc.

The best way to accept suffering and death, to overcome grief, is to accept it, make it part of our life, commune with it with the certainty that we have won in the One who died and rose again for us.

INDEX EXTRACT

Foreword. + Ginés García Beltrán. Bishop of Getafe

Introduction

The teaching of life

Life is a gift from God. In health and

illness, in the hands of God. My little

Bethany. Time of friendship and generosity.

Time to prepare the land. Planting time.

Harvest and vintage time.

Teaching about illness

Days of light. Stormy days. Hot days.

The legacy after his death

A faith with broad horizons. A hope

loss proof. Candido, new name

of charity nourished by the Eucharist.

Sister death. In the arms of the Virgin.

Amen

He is not here, he has risen!

Epilogue

SUBJECTS

Biography

Testimonials

Christian life

JOSÉ Mª AVENDAÑO PEREA. Vicar General of the diocese of Getafe (Madrid), develops his pastoral activity with its center in the love of God and the evangelizing care of those "wounded by life." He is the author of several books on spirituality and in this one he presents the Christian life of his father Cándido, a sincere believer who learned from farming and the simple life.