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Photograph Nouwen and Sr. Sue Mosteller

Item consists of a photograph of Nouwen and Sr. Sue Mosteller dancing while performing a skit; several other unidentified community members are visible in the background.

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)

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

#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.

#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.

Conference 11, Saturday morning, Sr. Sue Mosteller, "Going back - going forward"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a retreat for assistants at Morrow Park in Toronto, ON, from March 1-7, 1987.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: This is the last conference. I thought it would be good to look back and to look forward. We are all going back to our situations. But I l would like to change that to say we are going forward. What you are making is a new choice. So I am asking you to look at how you are going to think of it as a going forward with something new

Talk 9

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

Letters from Sr. Sue Mosteller

File consists of a letter and a Christmas card from Sr. Sue Mosteller, including a copy of a form letter to Mosteller from David Rothrock.

#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.

L'Arche Renewal 1992

File consists of 39 audio cassettes featuring talks given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 25 - August 18, 1992, in England.

Tape 4b

Item consists of 1 videocassette featuring a talk given by Sr. Sue Mosteller at an Accompaniment Retreat, held from April 8-11, 1988.

Talk 8

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

Interview with Sister Sue Mosteller

File consists of an interview with Sister Sue Mosteller interviewed by Elisabeth Pozzi-Thanner. Mosteller is a member of the L'Arche Daybreak (Richmond Hill, ON) community, Literary Executrix of the Henri Nouwen Society and board member of the Henri Nouwen Societies in Canada and the United States. There is a note in the file from Joe Vorstermans regarding scheduling a third interview. A second note indicates the audio and video cassettes have been removed from the file for transcription purposes. The interview is not transcribed and is only available on audio and video cassette.

L'Arche Renewal 1988

File consists of 57 audio cassettes featuring talks given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Side A: Conference 8, Thursday afternoon, Kevin Cullen, S.J., "Sin, brokenness, reconciliation" ; Side B: Conference 9, Friday morning, Sr. Sue Mosteller, "The way, the truth, the life"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a retreat for assistants at Morrow Park in Toronto, ON, from March 1-7, 1987.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Conf #8: I am one of those people who Sue talked about this morning when called to look at the brokenness in my relationships, I don't like that---again! I also know that once I get past that initial feeling I am glad to spend time reflecting on that reality. Conf #9: The theme today is the Truth and the Life. The text is John 15 about the vine and the branches. The question is "Who are you, Jesus?" I would like to meet him, so stay in the retreat today. Let us enter this text and see what it means for us.

#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.

Letters from Ministry of Money

  • CA ON00389 F4-2-5983
  • File
  • [between 1992 - 1996, predominant 1992]
  • Part of Henri Nouwen fonds

File consists of six letters from Don McClanen of the Ministry of Money (Gaithersburg, MD), one of them a faxed copy, and two of them addressed also to Sue Mosteller; a memo from McClanen to Nouwen, Fred Bratman, Jim Wallis, Gordon Cosby, and Dale Stitt with notes from their April 22 meeting at which Nouwen spoke about his wish to build and endow a retreat centre at Dayspring; a faxed copy of a letter from McClanen to Bratman and copies of two letters from Wallis to McClanen, two form letters from McClanen regarding fundraising and workshops organized by the Ministry of Money; typed and edited notes from a retreat for a Ministry of Money group at Daybreak led by Nouwen and Mosteller; brochures about stewardship and Ministry of Money workshops; and agendas and typed notes from these workshops. File also includes a memo from Carl [last name unknown] regarding a telephone call from McClanen, the April 1996 Ministry of Money newsletter, and three versions of a transcript of a talk Nouwen gave on September 16, 1992, on the spirituality of fundraising.

Letters from Sue Mosteller

File consists of detailed personal correspondence between Nouwen and Sue Mosteller including original and copies of typed and hand written letters, as well as original cards and postcards with notes in Nouwen's hand. Includes copies of letters from Nouwen to Joe Egan, Brother Andrew and Archbishop Ambroziac. Also includes copies of Nouwen's schedule from September 1993 to December 1994 and Nouwen's journal entries around Robert Giavedoni.

File consists of:

  • January 15, 1996 - Copy of Henri’s journal around Robert Giavedoni
  • September 1, 1995 – typed letter from Sue Mosteller and Nathan Ball to Henri
  • April 24, 1995 – original letter from Henri to Sue
  • February 15, 1993 – card from Henri to Sue
  • February 1, 1994 – card from Henri to Sue
  • January 15, 1993 – original handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • May 13, 1991 – typed letter from Henri to Archbishop Ambrozic
  • May 7, 1990 – typed letter from Sue to Henri re: the Prodigal Son manuscript
  • February 25, 1989 – original handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • January 10, 1989 – original handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • October 28, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • October 15, 1988 – card from Henri to Sue
  • July 25, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • July 12, 1998 – handwritten letter from Sue to Nathan and Henri
  • June 6, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • June 9, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • May 26, 1988 – typed letter from Henri to Sue
  • May 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • May 17, 1988 – handwritten card from Henri to Sue
  • May 15, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • May 11, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • April 21, 1988 – postcard from Henri to Sue
  • April 25, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • April 17, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • April 18, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • April 14, 1988 – photocopied handwritten letter from Henri to Brother Andrew
  • April 5, 1988 – handwritten card from Henri to Sue
  • April 3, 1988 – postcard from Henri to Sue
  • March 7, 1988 – postcard from Henri to Sue
  • March 4, 1988 – typed letter from Henri to Sue
  • March 3, 1988 – typed letter from Henri to Sue
  • February 29, 1988 – typed letter to Henri (from Sue?)
  • February 1988 – postcard from Henri to Sue
  • February 25, 1988 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue (Hymn attached, dated February 1, 1988)
  • February 19, 1988 – typewritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • February 18, 1998 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • February 14, 1998 – typewritten letter from Joe Henri
  • December 28, 1987 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • 1st Sunday of Advent, 1987 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • October 1987 – handwritten card from Henri to Sue with L’Arche prayer
  • August 25, 1987 – postcard from Henri to Sue from London
  • August 1987 – postcard from Henri to Sue
  • June 23, 1987 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • June 1, 1987 – typed letter from Sue to Henri
  • April 29, 1987 – card from Henri to Sue
  • April 20, 1987 – typed letter from Sue to Henri
  • May 1986 – card from Henri to Sue with L’Arche prayer
  • April 8, 1986 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • April 8, 1986 – postcard from Henri to Sue
  • March (Easter) 1986 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • “Holy Thursday” 1986 – typed letter from Sue to Henri
  • March 1, 1986 – typed letter from Sue to Henri
  • February 9, 1986 – typed letter from Sue to Henri
  • February 5, 1986 – handwritten letter from Henri to Joe
  • February 2, 1986 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • January 10, 1984 – handwritten card from Henri to Sue
  • October 19, 1984 – handwritten letter from Henri to Sue
  • September 22, 1981 – typed letter from Henri to Sue
  • August 11, 1981 – typed letter from Henri to Sue

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?

Labour Day Weekend

File consists of 2 audio cassettes featuring talks given by Joe Egan, Ken Gavin, and Sr. Sue Mosteller to assistants at l'Arche Daybreak over Labour Day Weekend in September 1983.

Talk 6

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

#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.

Side A: Conference 6, Wednesday afternoon, Kevin Cullen, S.J., "The cost" ; Side B: Conference 7, Thursday morning, Sr. Sue Mosteller, "Sin, brokenness, and reconciliation"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a retreat for assistants at Morrow Park in Toronto, ON, from March 1-7, 1987.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Conf #6: The call is personal to each one of us . We must be quiet to hear it. It is usually simple and gentle, but it can cause fear in us. What is the cost being asked of me? Conf #7: The theme is sin, brokenness and reconciliation. When I thin of my sinfulness, the first feeling that comes to me is fear. Yet Jesus often says "Don't be afraid." But we often flee from any pain.

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