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1. November 25, 1979, "Viens a la fete"

Item consists of 1 audio cassettes from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held from November 25-30, 1979, led by Jean Vanier. All volumes feature talks by Jean Vanier.

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

Jean Vanier, "Our Journey to Wholeness"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I am touched by these words of Jesus: "Do you want to be whole? Do you want to be healed?" And then he says "rise up" with all your weaknesses and fragility. I want to look at why do we reject some people. The "normal" and the "marginal" is in each of us. When Jesus asks "Do you want to be whole?" that is our rebirth, being brought back together again.

Jean Vanier, "Authority and Structures"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: When we feel hopeless we often conceal it in different ways. We have to hide the fact that we are helpless. Also, when we receive aggression, that is a difficult thing. There again we often flee or get angry. Basically we can just hide in the office and become non available. Another reality is loneliness, which leads to the need to seek approval

Erie 1979

File consists of 3 audio cassettes featuring talks given by Jean Vanier at a retreat for l'Arche assistants in Erie, PA, in 1979.

2. November 26, 1979, "Notre vulnerabilities"

Item consists of 1 audio cassettes from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held from November 25-30, 1979, led by Jean Vanier. All volumes feature talks by Jean Vanier.

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

5. November 27, 1979, "Etre en berger"

Item consists of 1 audio cassettes from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held from November 25-30, 1979, led by Jean Vanier. All volumes feature talks by Jean Vanier.

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

13. November 30, 1979, "Le nourrir pour grandir"

Item consists of 1 audio cassettes from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held from November 25-30, 1979, led by Jean Vanier. All volumes feature talks by Jean Vanier.

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

Jean Vanier, "The Prophetic Cry of Marginal People"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I will share today about the "cry." Maybe we could say that "in the beginning was the cry." The cry is at the heart of change. I want to give some guidelines concerning marginal people as agents of change or as prophetic.

Jean Vanier, "Important Stages to Growth"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to talk about the stages of growth, the bindings, the breakages and the refinding new centers. So first the stages of growth and then places of growth too.

Jean Vanier, "Evaluation after 3 weeks, Responsibility for Growth"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: What I would like to do is to say where I am at, at this time after our first three weeks. What I have picked up and what I have learnt. I will start at the beginning and share what I have lived and what worked well or not as well as we hoped.

Jean Vanier, "Celebrations"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to give a lot of practical ideas about celebration. I really believe that at the heart of our communities is something about celebration. This is something for us to look at and deepen. For me, I have the feeling that all of us get busy and preoccupied. I believe the link between busyness and centering has to do with celebration. I am going to try to show what the factors of celebration are.

L’Arche Renewal 1979

File consists of 31 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I will share today about the "cry." Maybe we could say that "in the beginning was the cry." The cry is at the heart of change. I want to give some guidelines concerning marginal people as agents of change or as prophetic.

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.

Jean Vanier, "Etaps de"

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal event in Courchevel, France, in July 1980.

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

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.

Covenant Retreat 1981

File consists of 23 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a Covenant Retreat held from April 5-11, 1981. The talks are in French and English.

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