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File consists of 57 audio cassettes featuring talks given at l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 22 - August 23, 1988.

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 start by hearing some of your responses so far. Where are you now? (Some people share and then Henri continues). All our questions about relationships are related to what I call the First Love and the Second Love. The first love is that God loves us before we can love one another. The second love, the love of family, friends & community is an expression of the first love. Sometimes we expect from the second love that which only the first love can give. We often expect what a person can't give: total, unconditional 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 will start with a meditation. It's very important to feel safe. One of the things that I am more aware of is how important it is for us to have a safe place. Where can you be really safe? The spiritual journey is a journey that requires that we have a deep, deep sense of safety. We are afraid precisely because we don't feel safe.

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: Have you seen Bernstein's Mass yet? It's very powerful. You see how the priest is dressed up by the people and lifted up higher and higher. But he tumbles down and everything is broken apart. He says: "I never knew how bright the light was until I saw it reflected in the broken glass." The broken glass helped him to see the light which he could not see when above everyone. Can we look at the brokenness of our life as pieces of glass that reflect the beauty of the light and reflect the love of God? It's an act of faith. We all know our brokenness of our lives and of these two sons in this Gospel story, but it can reveal and reflect to us a love we could not see before.

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 have a small Catholic Worker House in Toronto. We live as a family in the tradition of Christian hospitality. People come to us for all different reasons. We are happy to share our experience with you.

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: Talk continued with a Q & A.

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 basic human question is "when are we a person?" This comes up when we talk about abortion. What is a human being and when do we start? We are very close to be able to genetically manipulate things. Shouldn't we discuss this as a society before it happens. There are many values underneath these questions.

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 in this beautiful place. I just want to share with you about my people, Please don't expect a big analysis as I am not a historian or politician, etc. Yet I have lived in Honduras for 12 years and come here as your sister. I don't come to judge the North as we really belong to the same 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: In 1975 I went to Haiti with Robert Larouche and Jean Vanier who gave two retreats to young people. We were struck by how thirsty they were for the word of God. We also visited a psychiatric hospital and meet with the director who asked "why don't you welcome children?" Afterwards we saw so many children with handicaps in the streets. Couldn't we be open to welcome them in L'Arche?

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 come back to we really don't know what communion is. But we have glimpses of it; we have a hope. We have much more an experience of collaboration and even more experience of separation. We you say to me prove communion is true, I can't. I have an intuition, a hope it is true. It's a hope of many people that it is possible. We are expressing a hope and a call that maybe communion is possible.

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 just read a book by Br. Roger of Taize. One thing I loved was it said they changed the name of "Prior" of the community to the "Servant of Communion". It's a lovely name and we have to be really convinced that a leader of our communities is also the servant of communion. I want to talk about shepherding as being servants of communion. This is complex for us because very quickly we can become just administrators and not servants of communion. Thus we can be caught up mostly in organizing and doing rather than facilitating communion.

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 began this week on the theme of the poor as source of life. The poor who are crying out their pain and need. Are they just a pain in the neck and we have to get rid of them? This is the basic vision of a society based on a pyramid. They challenge us too much and our whole system of values. So we have been talking about the cry for communion of the poor, who call out our capacity for compassion. We will now keep on with how we are called to foster communion. If you are a shepherd, you must know what particular aspect of shepherding you are called to live.

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: Session starts with a Q & A and looks at the influence of culture on families

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 we have to face the fact of sin in us and in the world. But the design of God is love. We have to stay in the spirit of prayer and thanksgiving because God calls us to make a free choice, a choice for love and a choice to share his life, which is love, joy & peace. Otherwise we harden ourselves in front of the reality of the world or we become fearful. Now in front of this basic choice to love I want to look at Jesus, who is the message of God sent to us. To talk to us in a real way, God had to send his Son as one of us.

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 do today is to look at our second name of father and mother, Whether we are parents or not, we are all called to give life. It's fecundity, it's giving life.. This need to give life becomes absolutely essential and grows and grows in our life. But we can try to hide this need in us 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: I am from a city which is power orientated. It is a formidable word, power and is relevant in today's world and throughout the New Testament. But biblical power makes no sense in the world we live in, The life of Jesus and how he works with power is very important to us.

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: 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 a retreat for Assistants from March 13-18, 1988.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: This is a beautiful story at the of John's gospel of Jesus appearing to the disciples. But it is Peter that Jesus changes and transforms after the meal. It's a mystery of three times "Do you love me?" Jesus raises Peter to a new level and is calling him to a new way, "follow me and feed my sheep."

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: To rest on a retreat means to be disciplined. To be silent, eat slowly, to walk, to pray--that's what it means to rest. When Jesus says rest, He is inviting us to rest here, Something happens to us when we are in love. We become peaceful. Who can understand love? True for our relationship with Jesus, but can't force it. It's to receive. Let Jesus reveal to us what love means.

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

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: Side Two is a Q/A session

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 privileged to be here. I am looking forward to these three days to learn with you and to grow with you. I can give you one simple word to be put on top of these three days. That word is: returning. Think about that word and let that word grow in you deeply. To see where and how we are all called to return.

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 tape begins with singing and prayer. Then Henri continues. I want you to realize that as we want to enter deeper into the heart of God, we also must enter deeper into the heart of the world. The heart of God and the heart of the suffering world are one. Like a wagon wheel, the best way to be in touch with all the spokes is right here at the center.

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: Our second time together again involves all of you working. We will now address some of the questions you brought up initially. We will start in small groups first where you can share about what you have heard thus far and focus too on one of these questions.

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 topic today is a paradox: the poverty of affluence/wealth/security. How to deal with the poverty in our lives too? How to get in touch with our own experience of poverty and our resistance to it with its different faces in our lives? I will use images today from USA but which apply to all affluent countries wanting to live the "good life."

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: Are the poor a source of life or a source of death that should be got rid of? For people with handicaps we either push them into ghettos, kill them in the womb or else "normalize" them, which is a way of saying they are not different and don't need a special welcome. One f the big questions will be how to make the passage from being a source of death to a source of life? is it possible? If so, what is the conversion or passage necessary? This is not just an intellectual reality but a very personal one. It is not just a conversion to Jesus but also to Jesus in the poor. This is the final conversion.

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 have been talking about love and following Jesus. That's hat we have been trying to do. We have to do it together, which means men and women. This morning I would like to go into the most difficult part of the subject, which is to talk are there differences between men and women? Are these complimentary and best reflect the image of God? This is an extremely difficult subject and yet it is a central mystery to the mystery of being a human being, In Genesis they are created together and together they are in the image of God. They are then blessed and called to be "fruitful and multiply."

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 nervous today given all the experience in this group and public speaking is not easy, but the challenge is fun. This talk is not specifically on the therapy of L'Arche. But I do want to share about what L'Arche has to offer the professional world. But often we have not said it yet, especially in Quebec which is my focus today, I will talk about my own experience and also give you a perspective on how institutions developed. And then I want to hear from you what are the professional trends and values we are facing today?

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: What is our place as L'Arche in our world? What I have to say comes down to two things: 1) I believe we do have an essential place at the heart of the struggles of our world and 2) I believe this place is linked to the mystery of suffering. This all touches in the question of what is the meaning of what we are living back home day by day.?

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: After living the Renewal I feel more committed to my own Church of the Nazarene and what I am called to live there. The church comes out of the Wesley tradition and the hymns are beautiful and are ours. When we sing them the roof lifts off somehow and you feel the presence of God.

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: Yesterday we shared about the Christian vision of authority and the opportunity to share in groups our own personal experience. Today we will look at authority in L'Arche today. Authority is a fundamental question for our communities and always will be . How we exercise authority in L'Arche is an important factor in the health, radiance and growth of our communities or when they fall into crisis. We have had the experience of both in our history. This teaches us that this issue of authority is very important.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk 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.

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??