Showing 930 results

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held in August 1982 in Detroit, MI. Item features a talk by Jean Vanier.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: I want to talk with you about community. I use the word community in a large sense. I would say in the sense of covenant relationships. Not necessarily living together, but when we are bound to others and feel responsible for one another.

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: We always have to let go of many things, in fact, everything eventually to free, including letting go of God and just trusting God. Thus he says to us "I am the resurrection."

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: Today I would like to share more on my experience within L'Arche. I want to start with a myth about God's presence in my culture which will help your understanding,

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: Continuation of talk above with questions and answers.

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 present the culture I am coming from in Africa. It's important to get out of one's culture and then come home in a different way. In the second part we can look at any questions you may have.

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 a priest who lives the daily life of L'Arche like you do. I am a priest who loves L'Arche and its people and also loves the church. Both have their history, structures and authority.

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 is a Q/A session

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Scotland in 1986.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Scotland in 1986.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Side Two: My experience has been that the most generous people have been the poorest. I thought, at first, this was particular to India. In my village people often didn't have enough food, even in good times when there was work. Men had to wait to get their money and then wait again in long lines at the shop to buy food. Side One: I will look at oppression from three headings: 1) denial of nourishment; not just food, but all that nourishes us, above all love. 2) denial of space, the place to express our creativity and potential. 3) denial of personhood, the denial of recognition.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a Faith and Sharing Retreat held from August 14-19, 1984. Jean Vanier was the speaker for the event.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Christianity is essentially the meeting of my heart with the heart of God. It�s two people in love. Me in love with Jesus and Jesus in love with me. Not a love which is possessive, but a love that is creative and sends me forth. This reflects an even greater love, between Jesus and his father.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Scotland in 1986.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: We have been married for 35 years with 4 children and 5 grandchildren. We bring to marriage and indeed any relationship all of who we are if we are willing to do that. As a start, we though it would be helpful to share our history up to how we got here with you. As we relate that story we can bring in some points that you may find relevant to your own situation.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Scotland in 1986.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: It's important to be grateful for everything we got: friends and those we live with. Thank God for the grace of serving them. We are fortunate to be given a wounded humanity. But not to romanticize it. Be joyful in it and all those moments in our communities.

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 talk about authority with you as you think about going back to your communities into your daily life. So the focus will be on us and what this means for us. Jean Vanier has said our communities will rise or fall on how authority is exercised. And I have lived to see that this is true. As we grow to become people who claim authority well, our communities can have a radiance. But when authority is not claimed or exercised well, there is a possibility of destruction, which I have also witnessed.

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: Peace of Christ is different than the world's peace because Christ's peace can not be shattered, no matter how hopeless things may seem. Yesterday looking at our world left us feeling hopeless and gloomy. And then we prayed for a peace which gives us a hope when everything seems hopeless and to meet God's hope in that hopelessness. You asked yesterday where is the hope in all of this? How do we connect all of this with our faith? What in practice can be done? And what is God like?

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: Various songs song during prayer and worship over the summer.

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.

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 continuation of his talk.

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.

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: Let's start with a guided relaxation session ( which takes several minutes on the tape, including introductions too). The context today is loss and bereavement. There are lots of losses in our lives, whether recent or past ones. Good to look at them again because now I am stronger and can face the pain which I had to push into my unconscious. In fact we live more out of our unconscious than our conscious awareness.

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: It is hard to really believe what is your rock and security. Usually your anxieties tell you where your securities are. When it comes down to experiencing our groundlessness and fragility it is difficult to believe that God is our rock. Our faith proposes an entirely different view of the world and of human security. Where is our faith? Do we mean it? Is it real?

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's good at the end of these 10 weeks that we recenter ourselves on Jesus. To look at him and ask "what do you want of me?" And to give to him all we have received over these 10 weeks and our worries about returning home, maybe we will be more humble than "renewed." Today, I would like to reflect on three words of Jesus: come, stay, go. These you find continually in the Gospel. There's the invitation to come, then the invitation to stay,rest and remain and finally "go and I will be with you."

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's really important to nourish ourselves with the words of Jesus. Today we need a theology and spirituality based on the Gospels. We can learn so much from the little things that Jesus did. His gestures and how he spoke. And how he reveals to us his gifts. Jesus wants us to be fulfilled through our gifts and our mission. He wants us to be instruments of love and grace to people. Now that he has physically left this world, the fundamental way he will reveal his message will be through us, our words, our eyes, our touch and our hearts,

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 a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Spokane, WA, in 1983.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: God began to intervene through the prophets to prepare the coming of Jesus. The coming of Jesus could only happen when it was possible to give him to the whole earth. Jesus would give us his basic message whereby he refuses to put himself in the culture of power, etc. He calls us back to our own vocation to be the image of God and therefore we must develop our capacity to love.

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 begins with a song. The thing I would like to speak about today are at first sight about consumerism, but actually it is about the realm of persons. This might be distressing to some of you. If anything, your communities are all about persons. All of this slide show is about the trivialization of persons and therefore it might be very painful to see it. In our industrial society everything that is personal gets trivialized. But with people of faith, nothing which is personal can be trivial.

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: Ultimate values are competing for our allegiance. With USA, like Russia, the human heart is so resilient and responds to love. Even a damaged human heart can respond to the grace of another human person.

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: What I plan to do this morning is just to tell the story of my community that I am a part of. Then share what we understand about non-violence and peace. Perhaps that story can help connect us with the questions concerning the nuclear arms race.

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: I took pictures of a very unusual train as it went into the Trident Base. We then discovered in documents that they would try to bring nuclear weapons into the Trident Base. Then we traced the train route from Texas to the Trident Base. Then we began to contact all the churches and peace groups along the route. There were over 35 vigils along the route as the train made its way to the Trident Base.

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: Nadine is showing slides and telling stories

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

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: I am happy to be with you as a L'Arche group. You have a particular role as a witness to us as church today. I am attracted to the spirituality which is part of your life. This course on Luke will be short. I will zero in on certain aspects of spirituality that comes from Luke. Today will be a general introduction and you can follow the rest on the outline provided.

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: I want to work through a few particular passages with you. I want to emphasize a few themes and the first one is prayer (Chapter 11:1-26). Jesus prays in Luke on every major occasion in the development of his ministry.

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: Luke predicts the fate of the Church and secondly he gives us the ministry of Jesus and shows Jesus as loyal to his Father, committed to his mission, sensitive to people, prophetically challenging and proclaimed as messiah. Then we will look at Luke's position on who Christ is.

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: I find myself talking more about aging these days. And much of what we can say about aging applies as well to death and dying. I find it good to talk about aging because I realize that I am!

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: Maybe we shouldn't be frightened by old age because I suspect as we grow older we would have confronted a lot of our own fears and anger in front of aging and dying because we are quite close to these realities in L'Arche.

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: I will talk about St Christopher's in London. For those of you who don't know this setting, I will tell you just a little bit about it. It's a hospice of 62 beds and also some 40-60 people are being cared for at home. It's a Christian foundation of the Anglican church but serves and cares for anyone in need.

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's a gift to be back with a L'Arche group. Thank you for your welcome. We will have 3 sessions today; it will be a mish-mash! I want to start by sharing a few things about freedom and the inner journey.

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: I think we can say we are becoming conscious of our mission. I began L'Arche in an unconscious way as perhaps you did too. Each of us has our story. But if you look back to the origins of why you came, it's small to what we are discovering today. Our mission is much bigger than we imagined and possibly more important than we imagined.

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