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File consists of 10 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a retreat for Assistants from March 13-18, 1988.

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: Our only home is with the poor. Br. Andrew says that L'Arche is poor people living with poor people, which is the beauty of L'Arche. Gift today is communities that gather people together. In a world that calls us to greatness, excellence, etc. there is another movement that calls us to daily life in L'Arche.

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..

File consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Xavier le Pichon at a Formation event given for assistants in 1987-1988. The talk was titled, "La fraternite dans l'Arche a travers: le jugement dernier, la parabole du fils prodigue".

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Just a few opening remarks. The two sons are both lost! That's important because there are only two sons. So the story is saying we are lost. And that is ok because God wants to find us and is looking for us. It's ok to say "I'm lost and ready to be found." It's not a question of feeling guilty but that I grow in my desire to be found. So that we can start owning our wounds, our brokenness. Not to beat ourselves over the head but as that which allows God to hold and love us as we are.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: It is a privilege to be with you. I always have been searching for God and you have too. Now I find God in conflict, on the streets fighting for the poor. I have no qualifications to be here. I am only an old woman trying to do a bit of good, but because I am old, people paid attention!

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I finished my medical training 26 years ago. I was not interested in having a regular practice. I was more interested in health than sickness. I specialize in sharing knowledge with people so that they understand their bodies better and therefore able to take their own decisions.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Just before coming here I visited the psychiatric hospital of Honduras. It's a terrible place as you can imagine. I went there to see Olga who is a friend of our community. She was rejected and abandoned and lived lots of years on the streets.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We long for love which is related to the issue of poverty. In a strange way poverty is at the heart of love if you look at its characteristics that St. Paul writes about. It's a tremendous unguardedness, It's a strange thing when you enter into the mystery of persons and of love. It's like a terrible act of disarmament. But our normal inclinations are all about protecting ourselves. Thus love inhabits this whole reality of poverty and wealth, of radial insecurity and security, It's paradoxical because love means being so unguarded yet also feeling so secure. I want to talk this morning about the paradoxes of poverty and how at issue is always the reality of love.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I have the "family" as a general area. I would like to begin with a few questions: 1) What is a family? What is happening to families in the world around us? 2) What happens in a family? 3) What is the negativity we find in some families today e.g. violence and dysfunction? 4) Also to reflect on L'Arche as a family. What does that mean? This is one topic you all have experience over many years. We are all experts. I would like to bring in your wisdom too.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: This tape is very short and is the conclusion of the discussion and questions regarding L'Arche as a family

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The subject I have taken is a difficult one and at the same time an important one. I will be entering into what is the meaning of our vocation as a man and a woman. Only later will I talk about differences. It's important to do this in the right spirit, which is prayer. To be grateful that God loves us and has called us as beloved sons and daughters. If you only believe more at the end that you are loved I would be happy with our time together.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Each one of us has to discover our vocation and our name. We have two names. The first one is "beloved" and the second one is "giver of life." Our vocation is to love and be loved and to give life. We are blessed by God and called to be fruitful. Our vocation for each of us is a journey of love. For a majority this means marriage. But for some people the call is to celibacy. I would like to reflect with you today on "what is celibacy?" as a gift of God in a Christian perspective.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to talk about some myths and some truths today. Then try to put meaning on something we are talking about a lot which is life choice or vocation. And then the big questions about how to we live all of this??

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: There is a child within all of us that needs to be awaken again and nourished.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to share with you the four phases of development of the Church of the Savior in Washington D.C. I have been building the Church of the Savior all my life as I knew my husband Gordon when we were teenagers. When Gordon came home from WW II he knew that the Church of the Savior had to be interracial and integrated and have an integrity of membership with training and theology about what it means to be a Christian.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I will start by sharing my personal ecumenical journey and then let that leads us into the Lambeth Conference, which is really just the last chapter.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: This morning I will offer some reflections on the current state of things, where we are today in terms of the ecumenical movement. We are at a significant moment in history, the end of the church's close identification with culture. That culture becomes more secularized, which means to lead its life without reference to God. The church is called to take a more counter-cultural prophetic stand.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I am happy to be here, even though I am the last speaker of the Renewal. The theme for our 2 days is authority. It is a fundamental reality in all of our lives and of our communities. We all had the experience of living under the authority of others, whether, parents, teachers, boss or society in general. Also, how do we best exercise authority in our communities of L'Arche? So how do we live well under authority of others and how do we exercise it well ourselves? What is the Christian vision of authority in the gospels?

Interview with Peter Walker, Bishop of Ely. Dilworth notes that Walker had talked with Queen Mother, who knew Jones.

Found on tape: 70 (box 5)

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Side Two starts with feedback from small group sharing. Then Jean speaks: How can we learn to comfort ourselves? We can always say that the fault is over there because there is no one comforting me. We have to discover how we comfort ourselves or how do we let the spirit of God comfort us. You have experiences of this when you had to call on your own resources. The answer somewhere is about prayer. Prayer is learning to comfort and shepherd ourselves or be shepherded by Jesus.

Item consists of three audio cassettes of Nouwen speaking about Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry. SR79 v1: "Solitude", SR79 v2: "Silence", SR79 v3: "Prayer". These are likely based on lectures given by Nouwen in 1980.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: It's a privilege to be here. I have links with Jean Vanier and Henri Nouwen, whose writings are beautiful. I am happy to share with you my spiritual journey.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We will start by sharing in two's about your feelings about refugees, what you know and don't know and what questions you have. We will then write up here your questions and issues to guide us through out time together.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The one aspect of poverty we usually fixate on is the one we probably need to work on the most. Our impulse to protect is very revealing. So if you can let yourself be touched by the gospel, it has power to penetrate all these levels of our lives. If we think the gospel doesn't touch the wounds of humanity, we are not reading it and praying it. It touches us at many levels because spiritual poverty is totally at issue in the gospel. There are purifications and charisms no matter what life you are in.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to talk this morning about something a bit crazy about the poor as a source of life. Is it true or not? In a way we are touching the heart of L'Arche. Are we just living in a dream or is that dream real. Is it really possible that someone like Vincent at L'Etoille can be healing? Then it also comes down to the question: can my poverty be healing? If it's true the poor can be healing, then my poverty also can be a source of life. We will reflect on this. Is it true or are we living a dream o protect ourselves?

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I feel that we are walking on a road together trying to discover something together. When we talk of the cry of the poor and their need and their pain, add on "of separation" because this morning we are going to talk about separation and communion. The poor cry their need, pain and separation and their cry for recognition, love and belonging. It's always a big question: who do you belong to? Who do we belong to? The question of belonging can be a painful one. The essential cry of the poor is the cry of their pain of separation.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Thank for the opportunity to be with your community and for your hospitality. I did my training many years ago as a surgeon. Then in the 70's did a study which looked at how people died at our hospital in Montreal. We basically found that people died badly! And 80% of us will die in institutions. I was shocked. That kindled my interest in why that happened and what could we do about it. I would like to start with my basic thesis which is that loss and bereavement happen to us all the time.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Many things have moulded our perception of death as a society and underpin how we react to loss. Next we will look at grief and look at my lay perspective on a Christian response to suffering and death. There's a lot you can do during an illness that can prepare the people left behind. It's been said that only people who have avoided love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love. We all experience loss. It's been shown clearly that no matter what kind of loss it is, our reaction is essentially similar.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I would like to make a few observations about suffering. 1) Suffering can certainly be a stumbling block to faith, especially innocent suffering. We bring many factors to our experience of grief and one of them is our faith. 2) Whatever our suffering, it may be the point when we experience our essential aloneness clearly. 3) There is the paradox that suffering can be a doorway and stimulus into a new integration and spiritual growth.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The talk starts with a lengthy sharing about their family's Catholic background, including having 15 children. But we don't come as experts at all but do work with Marriage Encounter. We don't study marriage and are just ordinary folks.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Renewal helps us to try to get a perspective from where we stand about the world. That's why it is wonderful to have speakers from different countries which gives us something wider than just our culture. We are also called to look into our own interior. But often we don't want to look there at who am I and what's happening in my life and try to situate myself in front of my choices and how am I going to walk in my life. Where is my heart? Where do I give my energy? So important to reflect while here on renewal before we go back to our daily life where we don't have much opportunity for reflection. Reflection is critical because our lives, each of us, are so important!

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I am impressed with the richness of your renewal program here. All of that has prepared you for a reflection on Ecumenism, which comes from a Greek word meaning "the whole inhabited earth." Part of the Greek means "house" where everyone lives in harmony as a family. It is the Church's vocation to live in the world as a sign and to speak of Kingdom qualities. But when we preach Good News in a divided condition, it damages our credibility enormously.

Interview with Peter du Sautoy, editor of Faber & Faber and acquaintance of Jones since ca. 1960.

Found on tape: 70 (box 5)

Interview with Walter Shewring, classicist and acquaintance of Jones since the late 1920s.

Found on tape: 92 (box 6)

Interview with Colin Wilcockson, medievalist and friend of Jones since ca. 1950.

Found on tape: 70 (box 5)

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: Conf 2: We are like the disciples whom Jesus loved. They came for many reasons and slowly they became attracted to Jesus by what he said and his consistency with all people, rich and poor. They loved the way Jesus could announce good news.

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: Begin today by saying I hope you are perhaps having a bad day. A good day could be an illusion of being a good retreatant already. In reality, you might feel heavy or tired if things are not going well. We will see. Invite you again to relax and rest.

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

Item consists of a tape of Nouwen speaking on the theme of peace. This is a sound recording of Nouwen's talk in Cambridge, Mass. (for Harvard at St. Paul's Catholic Church) on February 10, 1987.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier at a Covenant Retreat in April 1987.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier at a Covenant Retreat in April 1987.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier at a Covenant Retreat in April 1987.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier at a Covenant Retreat in April 1987.

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

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

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from an unknown Faith and Sharing Retreat held, possibly in 1987. Ten of the cassettes, numbered sequentially, feature talks by Jean Vanier. One cassette features a talk by Sue Mosteller.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to talk with you about Mary, Martha & Lazarus.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from an unknown Faith and Sharing Retreat held, possibly in 1987. Ten of the cassettes, numbered sequentially, feature talks by Jean Vanier. One cassette features a talk by Sue Mosteller.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: When you love someone, the rules are not always very clear. We are all a bit confused. Too close? Too far? But the incredible thing about Jesus is that he sees in the act of love, the seeds of beauty. Yet if we get too close we may run away, which is a breakage of covenant. This is painful! We often don�t know how to love. What is important is that we love our best.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from the 1987 International Federation of l'Arche meeting in Rome.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: People who went to the Meeting in Rome shared about their experiences there.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from the 1987 International Federation of l'Arche meeting in Rome.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Joe speaks in English first and then Claire in French. The U.N, has declared this as the Year of the Homeless Person. I think this is significant for us. Our call in L�Arche is obviously to welcome people and create a home with them. Yet millions in our world do not have a home yet. We know in every society where L�Arche is located that many people have been pushed to the margins.