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Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier at a Covenant Retreat in Portland, OR, in May 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.

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.

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?

File consists of a letter to Jean Vanier from Connie Ellis, Nouwen's administrative assistant, including a fax transmittal sheet.

File consists of a photocopy of a newsletter from Jean Vanier of L'Arche International.

File consists of 2 audio cassettes featuring talks given by Jean Vanier at a Covenant Retreat in Portland, OR, in May 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 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.

File consists of two letters from Jean Vanier, one a personal, hand-written note, and one a longer, typed newsletter. File also includes a copy of a very long, typed letter from Nouwen regarding Vanier's visit to Daybreak and Nouwen's ministry there.

File consists of a letter from Jean Vanier of L'Arche Internationale regarding the enclosed draft agenda and participants of the second Spirituality Commission.

File consists of a letter from Martin Vernooy, writing from Madras, India, which also contains a paragraph written by Jean Vanier, who was visiting there. File also includes a copy of a typed letter from Nouwen.

File consists of letters from Jean Vanier, including a typed article "The Youth of Today: an urgent Appeal to the Church", the pamphlets "Jeunes d'aujourd'hui: un pressant appel a l'Eglise", "Our Inner Journey", and copies of the articles "A Home for the Crushed and Lonely" and "The Families of Jean Vanier". One letter includes a note from Barbara of L'Arche Trosly-Breuil.

File consists of a letter and a form letter from Jean Vanier. File also includes a material regarding a visit from Vanier to L'Arche Daybreak and two facsimiles from Nouwen.

File consists of 12 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a Covenant Retreat from October 10-16, 1990. The retreat took place in North Bay, ON.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

File consists of 10 audio cassettes from an undated Covenant Retreat. The talks were given by Jean Vanier. They are not labeled with titles of talks, but are numbered sequentially from 2 to 11.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier on October 20, 1990, most likely during a retreat for Assistants at l'Arche Daybreak.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: There are many different types of loss. I think of David who lost his mother or John who lost his work. We talked before about the death of Bill & Frank. And there is the loss of assistants. Why do they leave? Then there is the losses which are more subtle, like the loss of self-image or self esteem.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier on October 20, 1990, most likely during a retreat for Assistants at l'Arche Daybreak.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The title of this talk is "Staying in L'Arche long term". I will tell you the secret. It's about rest. Do you know what rest is? It is the awakening of new energy. Because everything is around energy. Where do we get our energy?

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 come back to those words of St. John of the Cross, �tear the veil which prevents our sweet encounter�. The mysterious veil that prevents our meeting with Christ, the veil in respect to myself and the veil which hides us from people. You know that the name of of this veil is fear. We then meet the snakes and emons inside of us, which can be the place of meeting with grace and jesus or the place of anger.

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: Tape can�t be heard!

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 have talked about Jesus meeting that woman of Samaria at the well. I now want to talk about another meeting of Jesus with another woman in chapter 8 of St. John, the story of the woman taken in adultery. This is an amazing story!

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

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

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: I want to say a word about the covenant that Jesus created and announced just before he died. It�s a particular significance in John:19.

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: Covenant retreats are the ones I feel most at home with. In some way we are all living the same reality. So I sense I can share at a deeper level. For me also it�s a privilege to come to N.A. as I am a lot in France. Just to be with you and share with you. To give you my own preoccupations, which I will share some of them with you tonight. But just to be bonded together in our common call.

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: Last night was precious. To see how we are all called into a covenant and living a covenant. And some are being asked to announce it. It�s been very good for me to be with you. It�s important for me to give covenant retreats. I am touched by how L�Arche is growing in North America, a world where it is not easy to live L�Arche with all its struggles and difficulties. At seems evident that God is present. So I just wanted to thank you for this week.

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

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: I want to go today into the ultimate meaning of pain and suffering.

File consists of 3 audio cassettes featuring three talks given by Jean Vanier on October 20, 1990, most likely during a retreat for Assistants at l'Arche Daybreak.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given by Jean Vanier on October 20, 1990, most likely during a retreat for Assistants at l'Arche Daybreak.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to begin by saying, "Do you remember/" To talk about a bit about how it all began. The beautiful and sacred story of Daybreak. It all began at Marylake in 1968. Sue Mosteller was there and Sr. Rosemary Donavan of the OLM's who gave us this property, which is a gift of God to you all through them. This is holy land for us to have a home and a place where we can grow.

File consists of a letter from Jean Vanier and a form letter from (Bishop) Remi J. De Roo, regarding nominating Vanier for the 1989 Royal Bank Award. File also includes a copy of the article, "A Journey of the Heart" by Mary Frances Coady, regarding Pauline Vanier and including a quotation by Jean Vanier. Also, an original and a copy of two long typed letters from Nouwen to Jean Vanier (one not sent?).

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Journey Retreat in 1989. The talk was given in French, but has been translated into English.

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: I mentioned a number of times how when we feel rejected, we fall into loneliness and anguish. And how quickly anguish and loneliness are transformed into guilt. Guilt is the greatest of all pains, to feel ashamed. The big question is the liberation of guilt.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Journey Retreat in 1989. The talk was given in French, but has been translated into English.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Covenant Retreat in June 1989.

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: This morning we spent time with Mary & Martha, with jesus saying that Mary has chosen the better part. I want to talk with you about my own journey into communion and the meaning of communion, And how I sense it is the most fundamental cry of our being. It is so deeply ingrained in us. This cry to be in communion with someone else. And at the same time it is at the heart of the mystery of our Christian faith.

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: Yesterday we ended with that incredible moment when Jesus said take away the stone and then calls Lazarus by his name. And he comes out! I just want to say a word about when there is a resurrection what happens? When we go through a resurrection what happens or someone in our community?

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: We ended this morning with the death of Jesus. One of the icons which always touches me is the Pieta in marble of Mary holding the dead body of Jesus in her lap with such delicacy. There is a mystery there! Then we are all called to wait like that first Saturday for the resurrection. The danger is we don�t know how to wait.

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: The other day we were talking about Bethany where Jesus had his feet washed with precious ointment. Jesus not only defended Mary but said everywhere in the world where the good news is announced what this woman has done will also be announced. Then a few days later Jesus washes the feet of his disciples.