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Conference 5 - "Jesus' incredible love for us"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: What strikes me as I ponder over the words of Christ as he gives it through the word and through the church is his incredible love for each of us.

Conference 2 - "Our meeting with Jesus"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to go deeper into our meeting with Jesus, which is the font of our hope. It�s true that when we have that deep experience that we are loved as we are today with our fragilities, fears, angers and depression, we realize that our God loves us so much he wants to make his home in us.

Conference 6 - "Brighter than a thousand suns"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Recently I met the community of the Transfiguration and its founder John Halsey in Scotland. It was called this because the feast of the Transfiguration was also a moment of great pain, the anniversary of the first atomic bomb. John said to us: �Either we will walk on the poor and end up with an atomic explosion or we will walk with the poor and end up with the Transfiguration.�

Conference 11 - "One hundredfold / Persecution / Resurrection"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I love that text we just read about those who leave everything get a hundred fold. It can be painful at times. Jesus slips in �with persecutions�. But that is what was are called to live. To lose, but to gain. To celebrate the gain, find we are persecuted and then receive eternal life.

Conference 4 - "To bear fruit, to be compassionate"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I call you again to be attentive as Jesus so much wants us to bear fruit. He wants us to become whole and to become compassionate. He wants us to be transformed. This process demands attentiveness to the word inside of us.

Conference 7 - "The mystery of body and community"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to say a few words about the body. Some where over the centuries something happened. There was fear of the body. That�s a painful reality. When there is fear of the body, there is breakage in the body. There is a great mystery about the body.

Conference 1 - "Good news to the poor"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: All of our retreat will be about how Jesus did announce the Good news to the poor. But to receive it we have to become poor. That is his message, he came to announce good news to the poor,

Conference 8 - "The littleness of community"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to continue to talk about community. I want to share about the littleness of community and about the littleness of humanity. Because there is a serious danger that some of us believe it is a crime not to excel and we don�t allow ourselves to be little.

Conference 10 - "Jesus in the present moment and St. Joseph"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I call you to be attentive to our last 24 hours. You will be returning to your people. Don�t live in the past or the future, but just live in the present moment today and how Jesus renders himself present in the moment.

Conference 3 - "Jesus meets the Samaritan woman"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in Kansas City, [MO]. The cassettes feature a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The meeting with Jesus is always a surprise. The meeting at the well with the woman is a model for us.

A8 - Jean Vanier, "Autorite et partnership" - in German (translated by unknown female)

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from the 1993 International Federation of l'Arche meeting. The cassettes were recorded as the speakers gave their talks, and were concurrently translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Polish, German, etc.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: German translation of Jean Vanier�s talk

A8 - Jean Vanier, "Autorite et Partnership" ["Authority and partnership"] - in English (translated by unknown female)

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from the 1993 International Federation of l'Arche meeting. The cassettes were recorded as the speakers gave their talks, and were concurrently translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Polish, German, etc.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Perhaps in living this week together we have become conscious that L�Arche is very much a gift from God. The stone which was rejected has become the corner stone. This vision which has been given to us is not easily accepted or recognized by everyone. The people in our communities are the gift we have received.

A2 - Jean Vanier, "Identite" - in English

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from the 1993 International Federation of l'Arche meeting.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: It was about 30 years ago that Pere Thomas made the discovery which is at the heart of the Christian message that God has chosen the foolish of the world, the weak to confound the strong. He has chosen those of lowly birth and those who are most despised. So it was that Pere Thomas called me to meet his new friends and so it was that L�Arche was born. It is because of Pere Thomas that we are all here. We too have made that same discovery.

A2 - Jean Vanier, "Identite" - in French, by unknown male translator

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from the 1993 International Federation of l'Arche meeting. The cassettes were recorded as the speakers gave their talks, and were concurrently translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Polish, German, etc.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: French Translation of Jean Vanier's talk

A8 - Jean Vanier, "Autorite et Partnership" - in French

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from the 1993 International Federation of l'Arche meeting. The cassettes were recorded as the speakers gave their talks, and were concurrently translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Polish, German, etc.

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

Jean Vanier, "Opening to the Pain and Chaos" - July 7, 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: There is a 'plan' behind this renewal. These first few weeks is to open us up to all the pain in our world. It is there. We don't like it, we don't want it, we hate it, but it is there. Then through that to discover something about healing and compassion. Many people are overwhelmed by the reality of the pain in their lives today.

Jean Vanier, "Looking at Our Fears ; Communion, the Basis of Our Life" - July 8, 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 hope that during this renewal each of us will discover how beautiful we are and how much we are loved by God. We have a mission to discover our beauty. Many people don't believe they are loved by God. Children know they are loved but then what happens? We must also discover our brokenness, that the outer world is also our inner world. The challenge is to accept it rather than just be angry with it. So sometimes we can deny our beauty and sometimes our brokenness. The secret for humans is the transformation of brokenness into trust.

Jean Vanier, "The Journey Inward, the Journey Outward. Who is My Enemy?" - July 9, 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: The inward and outward journeys are fundamentally the same. We have to do both. To meet poverty outside of one self and to refuse to see our inner poverty is not possible. It's a question of walking into our own pain and into the pain outside. It's important that we do this somehow together. As we begin to see the pain on the outside we begin to see our helplessness, our frustration, our angers and fears--our inner pain. Do we deny our inner pain and then the outer too? Or as we accept the inner pain, do we begin to understand the outer pain?

Jean Vanier, "Forgiveness / Peacemaking"

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 share about forgiveness which is close to peace making, bringing people together from a reality of separation. I would call on you to reflect on how reconciliation and forgiveness can be lived in community. But today my focus will be on the personal reality of forgiveness.

Jean Vanier, #2

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: In the poem of St John of the Cross, The Flame of Love, he writes �tear the veil which prevents our sweet encounter.� I want to share about this veil or wall or barrier that prevents us meeting people, that prevents the encounter with God and which somewhere prevents meeting ourselves.

Jean Vanier, #4

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Yesterday I was sharing about that text of St. John of the Cross. There is a veil between us and Jesus, which means we have difficulty knowing Jesus. We can then quickly invent our own Jesus. We then can not see the scandalous, vulnerable Jesus. Our God is so surprising, inviting us, but does not impose. Today I want to share more about the veil which hides ourselves from ourselves.

Jean Vanier, #5

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Our vocation is to look at people who are broken and to look at them with love, as Jesus did. I had a humbling experience when visiting a special home for people with severe disabilities. The nurse said to me, �Don�t you find them beautiful?� Sometimes we need help to see the beauty of people. I find the weakness if assistants in L�Arche is discouragement. L�Arche is based on relationship and we are all weak in relationship

Jean Vanier, #10

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to say something about the passage from brokenness to unity. One of the images I like to look at is Mary holding the dead body of Jesus, like the Pieta, in her arms. II find that very moving. Holding that dead, broken body with amazing love and delicacy. Yet everything is broken. There is a pervading brokenness, nothing is together. We can find this kind of situation in our world.

Covenant Retreat Tape 8

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from an undated Covenant Retreat. The talks were given by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: It�s a great mystery, our broken humanity. The incredible divisions in our world: cultural, religious, national. Divisions inside our communities and families.

Covenant Retreat Tape 9

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from an undated Covenant Retreat. The talks were given by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: When in Jerusalem, I like to spend time in the Church where the tomb of Jesus is located. I want to begin by saying something about waiting.

Jean Vanier, #7

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to share with you about somebody I lived with in La Forestiere in Trosly. When I left the leadership of the community I went to this foyer. I want to tell you about Lucien and what he provoked inside of me. But first the story of Lucien.

Jean Vanier, #8

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We can not really live covenant unless we live forgiveness and we can not live forgiveness unless we living covenant. They are intimately linked. Forgiveness is the recognition of a covenant. So today is really a day of covenant and forgiveness. It is to look at where we have separated ourselves from our people and from Jesus.

Jean Vanier, #11

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: This morning I talked about the littleness of the resurrection. Jesus is present , but not entirely recognizable. There was that incredible meeting with Mary Magdela. She didn�t recognize him. Yet for many their hearts were burning. The humility of the resurrection: the greatest event, yet so little. That is the story of our resurrection. How do we know that we are a risen people?Becuase most of the time we are feeling lousy, filled with doubts, angers, guilt and all the rest. What is the sign that we are a risen people? It�s really important to know what the signs that we are a risen people. We don�t even recognize it at times. St Paul will tell us about this. You will know you are a risen people because you are creating unity around you. That is the sign that you are a risen person. Our God is a God of unity. Anyone of God will be a sign of unity.

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