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Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Spokane, WA, in 1983.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Tape starts with a prayer. I enjoy being with people who are consciously trying to build community and the church in whatever form. I did visit Trosly last March and felt a sense of communion with what you are doing. I thought it best to begin by describing my own community of New Jerusalem and from that the rest will unfold as we have learned a lot.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Spokane, WA, in 1983.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: It is delightful to be among you and thank you for what you are giving me these days and what you give to the Church by your lives. The spirit of Jesus you have discovered is authentic. You need to know that. What I want to share with you this morning is how we got to this point in the Church and missed so much of the Gospel.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Spokane, WA, in 1983.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: There are five areas that you have asked me to address: 1) authority; 2)sexuality; 3) marginal people; 4) relationship with Church; 5) poverty. I'm so grateful for your questions as only people who are already in it could ask these kinds of questions. I want to start by giving you wider context by using a diagram: no doubt to operational doubt to ideological doubt to ethical doubt to absolute doubt (alienation. We all go down this slide---give yourself permission. You have to taste that doubt, sit in it, to taste it and be with it.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Spokane, WA, in 1983.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: How do we move toward the poor? First thing I want to say is that the fact that you are asking that question and desiring an answer is already the presence of the Spirit in you creating an answer. You have that desire and that desire is the work of the Spirit. The answer comes from within; they are not intellectual answers. But we also have to get practical. We have to think more in the long haul than short term. What is the meaning of my life, our life in the long run. We have to balance our energy, in and out, for the long haul which most of us have not learned yet.

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.

File consists of 58 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Spokane, WA, in 1983.

File consists of a letter from Richard Rohr, (OFM), of the Center for Action and Contemplation (Albuquerque, NM), including two issues of their newsletter, "Radical Grace", and two pamphlets. File also includes a typed letter of response from Connie Ellis, Nouwen's administrative assistant.

File consists of a letter from Richard Rohr, OFM, of the Center for Action and Contemplation (Albuquerque, NM), offering Nouwen encouragement. File also includes a copy of the newspaper, "Radical Grace: Despair and Empowerment, A Newsletter for the Center for Action and Contemplation" (Vol. 2, No. 3, May - June 1989).

File consists of letters from Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. of The Center for Action and Contemplation (Albuquerque, NM), including a typescript containing a forward from Rohr.

File consists of a letter from Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

File consists of a letter from Richard Rohr.

File consists of a letter from Richard Rohr.

File consists of a letter from Richard Rohr OFM of the New Jerusalem community of Cincinnati, OH, including a history of the community dated 1976.