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Item consists of a newspaper article called "Zwakke mensen hebben sterke medemensen nodig" by Rik de Gendt. The article is about Ark Flanders celebrating their 20th anniversary and Jean Vanier's L'Arche communities. Attached to the article is an English summary.

Item consists of a book written by Nouwen containing excerpts from his previously published writings. The translated title is: Show Me the Way : Readings for Each Day of Lent. The 40-day Lenten path includes readings for Ash Wednesday, the four weeks of Lent, Passion Week, Holy Week, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.

This item is a two page article by Henri Nouwen entitled ‘You can go home again’, published in Salt: for Christians who seek social justice’ by the Claretians, Vol. 12, No. 4, April 1992, pp. 29 – 30. This article is identified as excerpts from Nouwen’s forthcoming book The Return of the Prodigal Son. Nouwen begins the article by describing his first encounter with Rembrandt’s painting and his powerful response to it coming as it was at a vulnerable time for Nouwen. Nouwen then goes on to write of the biblical story from which the painting and Nouwen’s writing is coming. Nouwen relates the story of the younger son and Nouwen’s own sense of finding himself in the story. ‘Over and over again I have left home. I have fled the hands of blessing and run off to faraway places searching for love! This is the great tragedy of my life and of the lives of so many I meet on my journey’. Nouwen concludes, ‘ Here the mystery of my life is unveiled. I am loved so much that I am left free to leave home. But the Father is always looking for me with outstretched arms to receive me back…’

Item consists of 1 picture postcard with a divided back of the Yonge Street dock in Toronto, Ontario. The postcard has 1 George V admiral issue one cent Canada postage stamp.

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 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 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: 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 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: The deepest thing in us, where only the Holy Spirit has access, is the consciousness of love, the need to love and be loved. The main thing I would like to do now is try to understand what is the nature of the culture we live in because we are in this culture. The less we understand about this culture the more we are influenced by it.

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: Today we enter into the mystery of the heart of man in front of God. To get a vision of how God was calling us and giving us the freedom to answer his call. This freedom requires that we walk in darkness on this earth. So that our free will will be able to say 'yes' in this darkness by depending on our faith and hope in 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: I want to talk about love and what it means and how we are made for love. This is the general theme of what I am going to say. Taking the human journey from birth to death, what can we learn about love and integrate this with what Jesus told us about life. I will start with a focus on the child.

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: I am giving my own vision based on my experience but we are all entitled to our vision as these topics are so personal. You are free people as you listen to me. Today the theme is sex and death. Now why do I choose this. We looked at the beginning with our birth, then this long pilgrimage towards death. A fact of life. For humans the two dominating realities are sex and death. They will be the basis of most of our trials. And thus there are greatest opportunities to make acts of faith and hope in 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: Again, what I am trying to do over these 3 days, is to follow the call of Jesus as to our deepest vocation, We have to understand why we are here on earth: what is our vocation? This has to be concrete in our daily life, i.e. to ask every day Where am I in my vocation? God has called me. Where am I standing in respect to this call? How do I live this call in my life?

Item consists of an article from the book: Stories of Faith by Ruth A. Tucker, c. 1989.

Item consists of one framed woven piece depicting a dove. The bird is white, with navy blue tipped wings, and is on a light blue background. The back of the frame has handwritten quotes from: Luke 12:24, Isaiah 40:31, Tagore, and Victor Hugo, as well as a note from Tracy Fein, dated January 26, 1984, explaining her thoughts about the bird.

This item is a 2 page article by Henri Nouwen entitled, ‘Working for Peace’ published in The Lutheran, Vol. 24, No. 5, March 5, 1986, pp. 10- 11. This item is identified as Part III of a 3 part series and taken from the New Oxford Review. Nouwen begins by saying, ‘As peacemakers we must have the courage to see the powers of death at work even in our innermost selves…’. Nouwen writes of his own struggle to accept himself as loved and forgiven by God and the difficulty that creates for him to grow as a peacemaker. Nouwen describes the forces of self-rejection as forces of death. He then states that ‘a loving heart that continues to affirm life at all times and places can say ‘no’ to death without being corrupted by it. Nouwen then goes on to write of the importance of resisting the forces of death in our society in whatever way seems right. Nouwen concludes ‘ Prayer and resistance, the two pillars of Christian peacemaking, are two interlocking ways of giving expression to the peace we have found in the dwelling place of God’.

This item is a 3 page article by Henri Nouwen entitled ‘Working for Peace’ published in The Church Herald of the Reformed Church in America, Vol. XLIII, No. 18, October 18, 1986, pp. 11 – 13. This is identified as the second of two articles on Peacemaking. Nouwen opens the article by stating, ‘ As peacemakers we must have the courage to see the powers of death at work even in our innermost selves…’Nouwen speaks of that within us which does not accept ourselves and that this is ‘one of the greatest enemies of the peacemaker’. Nouwen speaks of the central message of the Gospel which is that we are forgiven and this truth can help us overcome our fear of ourselves and of others. Nouwen writes of the need to resist, resist the forces of death and to affirm life. He speaks of the need for joy even in the face of pain. Nouwen concludes by saying, ‘Prayer cannot be fruitful unless it brings us into a new and creative relationship with people. Resistance cannot be fruitful unless it deepens and strengthens our relationship with God. Prayer and Resistance, the two pillars of Christian peacemaking…’This item is a 3 page article by Henri Nouwen entitled ‘Working for Peace’ published in The Church Herald of the Reformed Church in America, Vol. XLIII, No. 18, October 18, 1986, pp. 11 – 13. This is identified as the second of two articles on Peacemaking. Nouwen opens the article by stating, ‘ As peacemakers we must have the courage to see the powers of death at work even in our innermost selves…’Nouwen speaks of that within us which does not accept ourselves and that this is ‘one of the greatest enemies of the peacemaker’. Nouwen speaks of the central message of the Gospel which is that we are forgiven and this truth can help us overcome our fear of ourselves and of others. Nouwen writes of the need to resist, resist the forces of death and to affirm life. He speaks of the need for joy even in the face of pain. Nouwen concludes by saying, ‘Prayer cannot be fruitful unless it brings us into a new and creative relationship with people. Resistance cannot be fruitful unless it deepens and strengthens our relationship with God. Prayer and Resistance, the two pillars of Christian peacemaking…’

Item consists of one wooden tabernacle. The item has two doors in the front, which lock [key included]. The tabernacle would have been used to store the Eucharist.

Item consists of a wooden sculpture featuring two men.

Item consists of one wooden sculpture, all carved from one block of dark wood. The bottom of the wood features the carved inscription 'The Remnant' and possibly a signature of the artist. The sculpture features a seated figure with its legs pulled to its chest, and one arm wrapped around the body. The other arm is resting on the floor, with its palm facing upward and cupped. The figure is sanded smooth with a finish, while the base is left rough.

Item consists of one set of rosary beads. These beads are wooden, brown, and include a wooden cross with a carving of Jesus.

Item consists of one nativity set. There are fourteen pieces depicting the Wise Men, Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and some animals. These pieces are made of wood and are painted.

Item consists of one small wooden magnet featuring the phrase "A rose is God's autograph" with a photograph of a pink rose.

Item consists of one large wooden crucifix. The figure of Jesus is intricately carved. According to an email from Sue Mosteller and Joe Child, in which Joe tells what he remembers of the figure: "The story I remember is that there was an old priest at Freiburg University who was an old friend of Henry's. Either before or after he died, he gave Henry the cross, and it came from a church in WWII, and the cross was all he recovered from the bombed out building. Henry brought it back and showed it to me and asked if I would mount it on a cross. I made a cross, and then gave it a high gloss finish. This accentuated the figure, which was a carved figure of Christ, and there was no finish on it, so it contrasted well with the finish on the cross. Henry liked it, and was around the old chapel for a long time. That is about all I can remember."

Item consists of a wooden cross featuring a silver engraving of Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

Item consists of one wooden card holder. It is a block with space to hold several business cards. Likely kept on a desktop.

Item consists of one wooden candlestick from the office of Henri Nouwen.

Item consists of a small wooden bowl.

Item consists of one painted wooden acrobat toy on a wooden stand given to Nouwen by Joseph and Brad for Christmas. There is a handwritten note from Joseph and Brad on the wooden stand.

Item consists of 1 picture postcard with a divided back of the Wolfe and Montcalm Monument in Quebec. The postcard has 1 Edward VII one cent Canada postage stamps.

Item consists of 1 audio cassette from a l'Arche Council / International Federation of l'Arche meeting in Chateauneuf de Galaure, France, in April 1978. Item seems to be introduced by Joe Egan.

Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: The thesis of my presentation today is that mentally retarded people play a unique prophetic role in this age. Christians who are aligned with them need to strive to understand that role.

Item consists of 1 novelty picture postcard with a divided back of a bridge by the water. The postcard has a white substance applique to alter the scene to appear snowy. The postcard has 1 Edward VII half penny green stamp.

Item consists of 1 novelty picture postcard with a divided back of houses and a windmill. The postcard has a white substance applique to alter the scene to appear snowy. The postcard has 1 Edward VII half penny green stamp.

Item consists of two audio cassettes.

Item consists of 1 embossed picture postcard with a divided back from the Raphael Tuck & Sons "Christmas" series, no. 1747, of a bouquet of purple flowers. The postcard has 1 Edward VII one cent Canada postage stamp.

Item consists of a typescript for "With Care: Mark 6:30-44", a talk on care of the sick and pastoral counseling. Nouwen argues that cure without care is more harmful than helpful, even in the professional setting. He asks: What does it mean to care? How to become a caring community around the person who is suffering? Nouwen urges his listeners to go beyond the professional to the human in the "caring" professions. Similar ideas were published in "Out of Solitude".

Item consists of a book written by Nouwen in Chobham, England and Sacramento, California and is about the Eucharist and the Eucharistic life. The book has been divided into the following: Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Road to Emmaus; I. Mourning Our Losses "Lord, Have Mercy"; II. Discerning the Presence "This Is the Word of God"; III. Inviting the Stranger "I Believe"; IV. Entering into Communion "Take and Eat"; V. Going on a Mission "Go and Tell"; Conclusion.
As is stated on the front flap: ". . . . With Burning Hearts seeks a fuller understanding of Eucharist through the story of the disciples on their way to Emmaus from Jerusalem after the crucifixion (Luke 24: 13-35)."

Item consists of 1 embossed picture postcard with a divided back with New Years greetings and birds lookings at a winter scene. The postcard has 1 series 1902 Franklin one cent stamp.

Item consists of 1 picture postcard with a divided back from the Raphael Tuck & Sons "Oilette" series, no. 6492, of a bird and two figures in front of a windmill. The postcard has 1 Edward VII one cent Canada postage stamp.

Item consists of 1 embossed picture postcard with a divided back with Christmas greetings and a scene from the Western Parades and Beachy Head at Eastbourne. The postcard has 1 Edward VII one penny red U.K. postage stamp.

Item consists of 1 embossed picture postcard with a divided back of a horseshoe in front of holly. The postcard has 1 Edward VII one cent Canada postage stamp.

This item is a half-page article by Henri Nouwen entitled, ‘Wisdom in Emptiness’ published in the National Catholic Reporter, October 4, 1974, p. 11. Nouwen begins the article by stating that most people need constant occupation and without it are restless and feel useless. He says ‘Being busy, active and on the move has nearly become part of our constitution’. Nouwen goes on to state ‘this is why silence is such a difficult task’. He suggests that occupation and preoccupation are our ’fearful ways to keep things the same’…’we hold on to the familiar life items which we have collected in the past’. Nouwen uses as an example of this a story by Carlos Castaneda and the story of Jesus’ exhortation that we should ‘not worry …your heavenly father knows what you need’. Nouwen concludes by saying, ‘ Conversion is an inner event that cannot be planned or organized, but needs to develop from within. Just as you cannot force a plant to grow, but can take away the weeds and stones which prevent its development, so you can… offer the space where such a conversion can take place’.

Item consists of 1 picture postcard with an undivided back of Windsor Beach in New York. The postcard has 1 series of 1902 Franklin one cent stamp.

Item consists of an excerpt from Here and Now.