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"Life passages: The accompanier" - Sue Mosteller

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an unknown Accompaniment event, sometime between 1991-1994.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to share today on what we have learned about accompaniment. But we want to talk about ourselves as the accompaniers. Love is not enough; we need skills too (and vice versa). Today we will reflect on ourselves and I ask you to be here with your whole self, with your gift and beauty and with the lie which is there too. All to better understand ourselves and then to make choices which will make our lives more coherent.

Conference #2 - Sue Mosteller, "My own history"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an Assistants' Retreat in Guelph, ON, in 1994. This particular retreat was for assistants that had been a part of the l'Arche community for 2-5 years.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The silence gives us a chance to listen. We have to be open today when we think about our own lives and history. We will start with Luke 5 with the call of Peter by Jesus and then look at John 21.

Conference #3 - Sue Mosteller, "Reconciliation"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an Assistants' Retreat in Guelph, ON, in 1994. This particular retreat was for assistants that had been a part of the l'Arche community for 2-5 years.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I believe that relationships are the whole center of our world. It's the most important reality. Many people come and go at L'Arche, but when here we are all just "peaking" out from our hearts hoping someone will recognize me as I am and tell me I am ok.

Conference #4 - Sue Mosteller, "Choices"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an Assistants' Retreat in Guelph, ON, in 1994. This particular retreat was for assistants that had been a part of the l'Arche community for 2-5 years.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Today is an important day for us. It's an opportunity to not just hear the words we are the beloved, but to choose where we can live that out and to see how we are claiming our identity day by day.

Side A: Translation (in French), "Who are the assistants?" - Sue Mosteller. Side B: "Who are the assistants?" continued ; Sharing, "To be Accompanied" by Lise Cesanbon ; "To accompany" - Tom Gunn

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an unknown Accompaniment event, sometime between 1991-1994.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: French Translation of v10

"Community accompaniment - the spiritual journey" - Sue Mosteller

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an unknown Accompaniment event, sometime between 1991-1994.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to share again this morning about the reality of walking together in community. There is a story in the Old testament which I think might help us speak about this reality we live. It is the story of the people of God who found themselves in slavery in Egypt.

Side A: "Who are the assistants?" - Sue Mosteller. Side B: "Who are the assistants?" continued ; Sharing, "To be Accompanied" by Lise Cesanbon ; "To accompany" - Tom Gunn

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an unknown Accompaniment event, sometime between 1991-1994.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Who are the assistants? I put an outline on the blackboard which you can follow. The reason why I want to talk about the assistants is so that we have an understanding of who the person is when we begin to accompany.

Conference #5 A and B - Sue Mosteller, "The mission of l'Arche"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an Assistants' Retreat in Guelph, ON, in 1994. This particular retreat was for assistants that had been a part of the l'Arche community for 2-5 years.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The topic today is the Mission of L'Arche. I will begin with the story of Noah in Genesis, which can give us many insights into our call.

Sue Mosteller, "Authority and Conflict" (part 2)

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 25 - August 20, 1992, in England.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to start with the question of how we take everything home as this came up often in my talking with many of you. I want to start with adapting a gospel story after the resurrection. What is Jesus saying in this story that we need to listen to?

Sue Mosteller, "Authority, Obedience, and Conflict" (part 1) - August 14, 1992

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 25 - August 20, 1992, in England.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to talk about authority with you as you think about going back to your communities into your daily life. So the focus will be on us and what this means for us. Jean Vanier has said our communities will rise or fall on how authority is exercised. And I have lived to see that this is true. As we grow to become people who claim authority well, our communities can have a radiance. But when authority is not claimed or exercised well, there is a possibility of destruction, which I have also witnessed.

Long-term Assistants Meeting. January 31, 1991, Sr. Sue Mosteller

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk from a Long-term Assistants' Meeting at l'Arche Daybreak. Sr. Sue Mosteller began the meeting ,and there were also talks by Nathan [Ball], Robin [last name unknown] and Joan [last name unknown], as well as a chapel.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: This is a our first LTA meeting this year. Welcome to all the new people. Invite us to be here with our hearts, to be heard and listening to. After a song and a psalm we will start with the program of sharing updates and a time together praying led by Henri Nouwen.

#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.

Long-term Assistants Meeting, Robin and Joan, Sr. Sue Mosteller

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk from a Long-term Assistants' Meeting at l'Arche Daybreak. Sr. Sue Mosteller began the meeting ,and there were also talks by Nathan [Ball], Robin [last name unknown] and Joan [last name unknown], as well as a chapel.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: LTA Meeting continues with various bits of news, including the zone Celibacy Commission and Covenant retreats.

#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.

#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!

#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.

#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.

Nathan Ball, Sr. Sue Mosteller, and Henri Nouwen

Item consists of 1 audio cassette recorded at an Assistants' Weekend in Orangeville, ON, from March 8-10, 1991.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We can take for granted the richness which fills this room right now as assistants. And the richness of the life we have together. We want to be here so that our community can be well.

#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?�

#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.

#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.

Sr. Sue Mosteller and Tom Gunn, "Who are the assistants?"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an Accompaniment Workshop for l'Arche assistants. The title of the conference was 'Accompaniment in l'Arche' and it was given in June 1990 in Calgary, AB.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Who are the assistants? I put an outline on the blackboard which you can follow. The reason why I want to talk about the assistants is so that we have an understanding of who the person is when we begin to accompany.

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?

Conference 6 - Evening reflection conference. March 15, 1988. Sr. Sue Mosteller

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a retreat for Assistants from March 13-18, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: There are struggles in our world today: West Bank, Ireland, Philippines, Central America, etc. Those struggles can be in our families too. All of us have been touched by the struggles in our families. We often don't know what to do. The struggle exists in our communities too. All the problems "out there" are in our communities too: authority, relationships, breakages, communication, questions of morality, religion etc. L'Arche is often a mess, so we live the reality of our world..

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