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Reviews of sabbatical journal

File contains book reviews in English for "Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year", by Henri Nouwen (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1998). Reviews include:

  • Allen, Frank. "'Sabbatical Journey': Diary documents final pilgrimage of Jesuit educator" in St. Louis Review (November 20, 1998).
  • Holst, Wayne A. "Twentieth century prophet" in Catholic New Times (Toronto, ON) December 26, 1999: 18.
  • Holst, Wayne A. Review of "Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year", Catholic Register, Anglican Journal, and Western Catholic Reporter, October 26, 1998.
  • Black Lenora. Review of "Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year," Spirit and Life 97 no. 2 (July / August 2001): [unpaginated]
  • Smith, Judith E. Review of "Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year", Weavings 14, no. 6 (November / December 2001) : 46 - 49.
  • Reviewer unknown. Review of "Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year", Crossroads (Winter 1997) : 7. (Also includes a list of Nouwen's bestselling books).

Job description for office assistant to Nouwen

File consists of three copies of a job description for a position as Nouwen's office assistant. This statement was most likely typed by Peter Weiskel and is dated as April 18, 1985. David LeBlanc is stated as being the current office assistant.

A second file folder consists of personnel files relating to Peter Weiskel from Harvard Divinity School during his time as Nouwen's administrative assistant including an overview of his work as Nouwen's assistant; Nouwen's performance evaluation; and an advertisement for the position from January 6, 1984.

Material collected by Annice Callahan

File consists of various articles, tributes, obituaries, notices, pamphlets, and cards collected by Annice Callahan on Nouwen's death. File also includes brochures from L'Arche's Dayspring Chapel, publication lists, and an excerpt from "Making All Things New" by Nouwen.

Second file folder contains the material collected by Callahan sent to Sue Mosteller by Phyllis Braceland including a letter to Sue Mosteller from Braceland dated June 19, 2002; typed notes by Annice Callaghan, RSJC, titled "My Random Notes from a Regis College Class Lecture by Henri Nouwen November 14, 1988"; two photocopies of articles by Henri Nouwen; "The Mother of Christ"; "A Spirituality of Waiting"; and "Solitude and Community" (published in CRC Publications (Canadian Religious Conference).

Miscellaneous administrative materials

File consists of correspondence, office memos, and official university documents from Harvard Divinity School, from 1983 to 1985, including:

  • Nouwen's official appointment as Professor of Divinity and Horace de Y. Lentz Lecturer, dated January 17, 1983
  • Copy of the Harvard University Gazette for January 28, 1983 containing an article on Nouwen
  • Course proposals for the spring semesters of 1983 and 1984 (Nouwen did not end up teaching these courses)
  • Revised listings for school catalogue for the spring terms of 1983 - 1984 describing two courses, Introduction to the Spiritual Life and Spiritual Life and Spiritual Direction. (Nouwen did not end up teaching during the spring semester of 1983)
  • Pamphlet of Harvard Divinity School Events for 1983, including "Mission and Reverse Mission: Impressions of Peru" on Tuesday, March 15, 1983, and "In Search of a Contemporary Spirituality", on Monday, April 11, 1983
  • A class schedule for the spring semester of 1983 (Nouwen did not teach any courses that semester)
  • Issue of "The Nave: Harvard Divinity School News"
  • Pamphlet for Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program
  • A typed report dated April 8, 1983 from the campus group EHDS, Evangelicals at Harvard Divinity School
  • Small typed report on the history of Harvard Divinity School from Emily Preston
  • A memo from Dottie Lewis regarding new forms that were required for travelling professors filing expense reports. This memo is dated February 23, 1984
  • Photocopies of cheques dated between September 17, 1982 to August 18, 1984
  • Five-page document listing Harvard Divinity School Committee Assignments for the academic year of 1984 - 1985. Nouwen is listed as a member of the Committee on Worship
  • Typed note from Peter Weiskel to 'Rusty' dated May 7, 1984 listing the institutional affiliations of the students of Nouwen's two classes for 1984, Introduction to the Spiritual Life and Ministry and the Spiritual Life
  • Two letters, one from Peter Weiskel, and one from Nouwen announcing Nouwen's resignation and move to Maryknoll Residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Funeral materials

File consists of materials from various Nouwen funerals including preparation documentation; eulogies; speech transcripts; programs; articles; poems; in memoriam notices; newsletter notices; a funeral guest book; attendance lists; a memorial mass program; and sympathy notes.

Death documentation

File consists of materials related to Nouwen's death including death certificates; insurance benefits, files, and correspondence; Nouwen's last will and testament; financial records regarding taxes and royalties; memorial cards; notes; arrangements for Nouwen's gravestone; pamphlets from memorial events; instructions for L'Arche Daybreak on responding to inquiries; and the power of attorney for personal care document from 1995. A second file folder contains additional correspondence regarding the arrangement for Nouwen's burial plot and gravestone.

Handouts and lecture summaries for fall 1994 lecture course

  • CA ON00389 F4-7-1-2249
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  • Handouts and lecture summaries for fall 1994 lecture course [textual record] -- [between May - December 1994]
  • Part of Henri Nouwen fonds

File consists of typed lecture summary notes which Nouwen most likely distributed to his students as handouts throughout the class. There appears to be a master copy on heavier paper for each handout which was used to make photocopies. There are also multiple copies of handouts as well, including Nouwen and Sue Mosteller's "Sacred History" (biography), course outlines, class schedules, and assignment guidelines. Second file folder contains a bound and signed copy of the course text from Nouwen addressed to Sue Mosteller.

Letters from Fr. Dennis O'Neill

File consists of letters, postcards, and cards sent to Rev. Dennis O'Neill from Henri Nouwen. File also includes two books by O'Neill, "Lazarus Interlude: A Story of God's Healing Love in a Moment of Ministry" and "Passionate Holiness: Marginalized Christian Devotions for Distinctive People". One typed note refers to the book "Love in a Fearful Land" which Nouwen sent to O'Neill. File also includes one scanned and printed colour photo. The photo is a picture of Nouwen and Nathan Ball standing in the kitchen of St. Clotilde rectory in Chicago in the early 1990's.

Fr. Dennis first got to know Nouwen through his books. He read many of them, beginning with The Genesee Diary. In 1981 he had this experience with a man who attempted suicide, and died two weeks afterwards as a result. He hadn’t known the man before, but they had an intense experience together. O’Neill wrote a book (Lazarus Interlude) on the this experience and sent Nouwen a copy of it, because he thought Henri would appreciate it. He didn’t hear anything back (this was during Nouwen's Harvard years). A year later O'Neill was trying to get the book published, and asked Nouwen to write the introduction. He called his office at Harvard and explained the situation to Henri. Henri hadn’t seen the book, but once he dug around his office he found it. Henri read it that night, and shared it with some of his friends. The next day he called O’Neill to say he would be willing to write the intro.

The letters from Nouwen to O'Neill are all originals:

  • October 1982: handwritten, 1 page letter, written from Switzerland
  • November 10, 1984: handwritten, postcard, written from Cambridge on a L'Arche Trosly-Breuil postcard.
  • December 20, 1984: handwritten note, written from Boston, MA
  • March 3, 1986: one-page, handwritten note, written from France. Includes four blank postcards and one picture of an icon.
  • April 9, 1986: handwritten postcard, written from France
  • April, 14, 1986: handwritten postcard, written from Southern France
  • April 25, 1986: handwritten letter from France, includes a blank post-card
  • April 30, 1986: typed form letter addressed "Dear Friends," written from Cambridge.
  • June 30, 1986: handwritten postcard, written from France
  • January 30, 1987: handwritten postcard
  • December 28, 1995: handwritten postcard, written from Germany

Conference #2, August 15, 1984, 9:15 a.m.

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.

Faith and Tom Lees, "Change and Growth in Marriage"

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.

Fr. Austin Smith, "Liturgy of the Word: Historical Jesus"

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.

Sue Mosteller, "Authority, Obedience, and Conflict" (part 1) - August 14, 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 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.

Gerald Hughes, "Justice and Peace" (part 2) - August 21, 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: 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?

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

Dr. Mount, "Personal Encounter with Loss and Death" (part 2) - Monday, July 25, 1988, A.M.

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.

Dr. Mount, "Personal Encounter with Loss and Death" (part 3) - Monday, July 25, 1988, P.M.

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.

Mr. and Mrs. Barber, "Marriage" (part 1) - Tuesday, July 26, 1988, A.M.

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.

Sue Mosteller, "Making Choices" (part 1) - Thursday, July 28, 1988, A.M.

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!

Fr. Tom Ryan, "Ecumenism" (1) - Thursday, August 18, 1988, A.M.

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.

Jean Vanier, "Forgiveness / Peacemaking"

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.

Dorothy Watson, "Loss and Bereavement and First Relaxation Exercise" - July 28, 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: 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.

Fr. John Kavanaugh, "Simplicity in a Material World" - August 13, 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: 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?

Jean Vanier, "1. Come"

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."

Jean Vanier, "3. Go"

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,

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