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L'Arche Audiovisual Collection Mosteller, Sue
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L'Arche Audiovisual Collection

  • CA ON00389 C5
  • Collection
  • 1968 - 2004

Collection consists of audiovisual materials featuring recordings of events given by and used by members of l'Arche International/Internationale. This material includes 1708 audio cassettes, 37 videocassettes, 8 film reels, and 78 audio reels. Much of the material features recordings created at L'Arche retreats internationally, such as the Covenant Retreat, Renewal Retreat, and Faith and Light Retreat. Prominent speakers include Jean Vanier, Henri Nouwen, Joe Egan, Robert Larouche and Sue Mosteller.

The majority of the audio files feature Jean Vanier, usually speaking at retreats. The film reels are recordings made and collected by L'Arche Daybreak, and feature a CBC film on Daybreak (from 1970), pilgramages and trips made by Faith and Light and Daybreak. There is also a film reel of Jean Vanier.

Collection has been arranged into eight series:

  1. Head of House and regional meetings
  2. Covenant retreats
  3. Faith and Sharing
  4. Federation meetings
  5. Assistants' retreats and meetings
  6. L'Arche Renewals
  7. Other events, talks, and speakers
  8. Audio reels and film reels

Collection also includes a binder which functioned as a catalogue for many of the cassettes that were housed at l'Arche Daybreak until 2004 and 2006. This binder is located in series 7.

L'Arche Daybreak (Association)

Regional Meeting 1983

File consists of 7 audio cassettes featuring recordings of talks given by Jean Vanier and Sue Mosteller at the Regional Meeting in Waterloo, ON, in May 1983.

Talk 6

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat in October 1987.

Talk 8

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat in October 1987.

Talk 9

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat in October 1987.

Covenant Journey 1989

File consists of 17 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a Covenant Journey Retreat in 1989. There are varying speakers and titles. The talks were given in French, but have been translated into English.

Covenant Journey June 1989

File consists of 12 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a Covenant Retreat in June 1989. The cassettes are labeled as being given by Jean Vanier, but one cassette features a talk by Sr. Sue Mosteller. The cassettes are numbered sequentially and titles of talks are not listed.

Sue Mosteller, #6

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat in June 1989.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: A session on the history of the covenant in L�Arche by various speakers. How it was given to us and how it has evolved and grown. And what are some of the questions in front of us today?

#1 - "I lead you to the desert and speak to your heart". October 28, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Last night we spoke about the ways that people in the Old testament heard the voice of God. People like Noah, Abraham and Moses. In L�Arche we can be sure that God speaks to us through the poor. I want today to intro duce you to Tracy, a young woman who lives at Daybreak. She has an incredible personality!

#10 - "Let me wash your feet, trust me". November 2, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Today we want to talk about the washing of the feet, which is a sacred time. It�s an act that we have not begun to understand really. But I sense more and more that it has significance for us.

#2 - "You are my beloved child". October 29, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: In the formula we have developed in L�Arche we say, �You are invited to live a covenant of love in L�Arche with Jesus and with all your brother and sisters, especially the poorest and weakest. Do you want this?� We are invited to live a covenant of love and communion. I want through the days of the retreat to point to the person of Jesus so we could ask ourselves the question, �Who are you?�

#3 - "What do you want me to do for you?" October 29, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We are invited to live a covenant in L�Arche. We are invited to live it whether we announce it or not. The question we want to carry in this retreat and in our hearts is, �Who are you, Jesus?� There is going to be a bond between us. There us a relationship that is going to have an impact on my life. Something new is going to happen in this relationship.

#4 - "Let Him go to the place of your true desire and listen". October 30, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Today I thought we could look at Jesus as the teacher. Perhaps we could say �yes� to being a disciple today. We are listening because we are committed to follow this way. You are the teacher who shows us the way.

#5 - "Live your brokenness as a food for the world". October 30, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We will continue to look at Jesus as the teacher. It�s amazing to try to penetrate the word that Jesus teaches us in the gospels. It�s true that there is a word given but that word id much more than just a word. Maybe that�s why Jesus is the Word of life. The Word is Jesus., which we will look at this afternoon.

#6 - "Coming back home". October 31, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Today we will enter into the story of the prodigal son. I live at Daybreak with Henri Nouwen who has written a book on the prodigal son and we have talked about it a lot. So many of my ideas are not my own. Today is the day of reconciliation and once we go there we will run into our great resistance to change. Reconciliation is a change of heart.

#7 - "The father is your home". October 31, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: This morning we spent time looking at the ways we find ourselves far from home. I have a sense that everyone here has had a deep experience of homelessness and we know the very big suffering of countless refugees in our world today.

#8 - "I'll bring you from slavery to freedom". November 1, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Today I want to talk about three things I have a passion for. If I want to find one word to talk to you about, that word would our LIFE, with three aspects. One is the covenant, another is passages and the third is disciplines.

#9 - "Do you love me? Feed my sheep!" November 1, 1991

Item consist of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at a Covenant Retreat from October 28 - November 2, 1991, in Belgium.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We want to know that we are the well beloved daughter or son. We want to come home to that truth and stay under the blessing of the Father who loves us. Today there is another side of love. As the beloved we rest in God, b ut we do push on from there. Love is not just receiving, I I am the beloved, it means I have enormous power to love others.

Covenant Retreat May 1993

File consists of 22 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a Covenant Retreat (Retraite de l'Alliance) from May 26-31, 1993. Each talk is in French and English.

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