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 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 have been asked to speak about the call to grow today. I want to start with the question: "Do you know how important your life is?" "Can you believe that you can grow and change?" Based on that we can move into some things which will help us to know ourselves a bit better, to understand ourselves. And hopefully push us like a motor to become more.
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 are going to try to attempt something different. During the last two days we tried to deepen things we know to be true and to put words around our experience. I wonder now if it would be possible for us to try to listen more from our hearts? Maybe to process and deepen not so much from our intelligence but from our hearts. So you may not want to take notes today. It's much more an entering in to that place where we discover what is true at the level of our hearts.
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: Talk One: This morning I want to take up the story in chapter two, the Wedding Feast at Cana. "On the third day, there was a marriage" This is an ordinary story but through this story we can see a vision of what the whole gospel is going to be about. It's going to be the marriage of heaven and earth and the to and fro of love between God and humans. Talk Two: We are going to look this evening at Chapter four. This is the story of how Jesus was coming home to Galilee, passing through Samaria and he came to Jacob's well, which is still there today. We read that Jesus sat by the well, alone, tired and thirsty from his travels. It was about noon.
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 the easiest thing in the world to totally opt out. The 'institution' goes on. The world is quite happy for you to go on carrying for disabled people. It really is. You are not bothering anybody. Yet it is so difficult to convince ourselves that what we are about, our struggles, etc. is not just a caring activity but establishing a new vision because the old one is finished.
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 L'Arche which is an unwise thing to do because I don't live it. So you can tell me if I have it all wrong or whatever you like. I want to start with our understanding of human development from the standpoint of our Christian faith. Some elements of our human development relate directly to our faith in God. Human life begins in God and is sustained by God's grace and love. And it will end in God. Now what is the particular gift of L'Arche in all of this?
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 start with the question of how we take everything home as this came up often in my talking with many of you. I want to start with adapting a gospel story after the resurrection. What is Jesus saying in this story that we need to listen to?
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: Yesterday we were looking at the two meanings of the word ecumenical. We looked at the complicated family tree of Christianity over 2000 years and at its many problems. One thing that has happened in the last 50 years or so is that all the different religions have come to be aware of one another and aware of living together on one small planet.
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: Earlier in the summer we talked about Jesus and the woman at the well, which ended with the extraordinary words "I am." We will look now at the these words "I am" and the mystery of these words. We will look at the eight examples over 3 talks when Jesus said "I am." Remember how people would have reacted because "I am" is God's name!
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 can be painful to live "I am" and our reality at different stages of life. It takes courage to let the truth of "I am" come into our souls. And let Christ be the door in each of us which will lead us to find in ourselves the truth of "I am". This he will give us and lead us to a fullness of life.
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 are looking today at St. Paul's letter to the Romans, which is about many things but especially about the freedom in the spirit which liberates us and enables us to grow.
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: Side One: Bill starts with giving his personal background. I studied medicine after the war and found my way into psychiatry. I worked many years with teenagers and now have my own private practice. I want to look at the cry of the poor where people have been deprived materially or emotionally. The cry of pain of those who have no fountain of love inside. Side Two: It's true to be a whole human being one has to learn how to be sad and to suffer with and for others, but not immobilized by it. That's where community is so important. But don't try to be perfect; just good enough. We must learn from our mistakes, recovered from them on and go on.
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: He starts by giving some background information about himself. Then says: what I will speak about is my understanding of human growth which I am learning a lot now from my grandchildren. It all starts with Freud about 100 years ago and he revolutionized our understanding of ourselves in a variety of ways, He put the unconscious on the map.
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: Today I will take you from age 10 through adolescence to adulthood. At age 12-14 somewhere puberty breaks through into our lives, including bodily changes and sexual awareness. But adolescence is a much longer stretch to the early 20s. During adolescence we have to negotiate 3 things: 1) the final stage of autonomy from our parents; 2) beginnings of our sexuality; and 3) the transition from school to work or higher studies.
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 short introduction because Rosemary is late for her talk. She then starts: I want to share with you what my thinking has taken me through, even starting as a young girl when my mother said I could not become a minister because I was a girl. Let's start by looking at our humanity through two myths, which are, of course, truth bearing stories.
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: Today I want to remind ourselves in talking about man & woman we are not trying to draw up a papal encyclical. What we are trying to do is a very practical thing, i.e. it is to discern the process which we all have to undergo, taking a lifetime, to become a whole person.
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's obvious to say that I'm not an expert on families. All of us here have something to say about family. We all grew up in a family and now some of us are struggling to raise our own families in a good way. Family is one of the most important gifts we have received. It is the basic unit of society and of the church. What happens in families has a big impact on all of us. I would like to start with the gift of families.
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: Today will be about pastoral care and loss. We will start will an exercise in 3's about coping with loss.
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 l'Arche Renewal retreat events from June 25 - August 20, 1992, in England.
Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: What I want to share with you is all based on the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. For me, that is the whole new testament. I have been in the caring world for about 50 years, including becoming a nurse and then a priest.
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 start by coming back to the "hurt." We have all had the experience of being hurt. And it's obvious when you go into prisons or talk with an alcoholic. At one moment you touch the hurt. Each of us knows our own hurt. It can even be a little thing, but it was important to us. We all have that reality inside of us. A reality that was sacred to us, but that others didn't see it as sacred.
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: There are five areas that you have asked me to address: 1) authority; 2)sexuality; 3) marginal people; 4) relationship with Church; 5) poverty. I'm so grateful for your questions as only people who are already in it could ask these kinds of questions. I want to start by giving you wider context by using a diagram: no doubt to operational doubt to ideological doubt to ethical doubt to absolute doubt (alienation. We all go down this slide---give yourself permission. You have to taste that doubt, sit in it, to taste it and be with it.
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: Two possible things came up about what to share on for today. The first three weeks of the renewal were a very personal reality with Myers-Briggs, the journal workshop and then the retreat. This was an important time of hope for us all. Then we were hit with community and culture, starting with Nadine's talks. So maybe today we should focus on our communities, their hopes and pains.
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 began L'Arche in an unconscious way; perhaps you did too. Each of us has a story. But if you look back at why you came, it is very small to what we are discovering today, which is much bigger than we imagined and much more important.
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: There was recently a Congress on new born children and it is terribly important what is being learned. The first home of every child is the womb. Then he has to leave because there is not enough space. But he still has a home in the arms of the mother; if not, he's lost. His very life depends on the relationship with his mother. But when held, he is at peace.
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 a l'Arche Renewal retreat in Spokane, WA, in 1983.
Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Tonight I want to look at the teachings of Luke on the Church. Later on we will look at some slides of the actual places where events in the gospel took place.
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: For Luke there is now a need to call people back to the roots, the way things were with Jesus. The way things ought to be in the Church. For Luke, the church is in need of four major qualities, which are found through his writing like threads in a tapestry. 1) issue of poverty and riches; 2) the need of renunciation in discipleship; 3) the need for a spirituality of mercy; and 4) the need for the church to welcome and integrate the poor, which is all of us. These four points are true for the church today too.
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 Spokane, WA, in 1983.
Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Tape begins with a song. Faith has to be inculturated, no doubt. But the great danger becomes when it just becomes a repetition of the culture. We all relativize the gospel and sometimes the essential parts. Did Jesus really mean the Sermon on the Mount? It's utter foolishness! So we rewrite it. But Christ is not a capitalist or a revolutionary. But his message is revolutionary to both systems because his message brings forth the pre-eminence of every single human being over any system, That really is dynamite!
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 don't come today with a scholarly lecture. I come as a pastor to share with you some of my own insights and to learn from your insights and understandings as to how God is bringing about his saving purpose. What I will share I want to put into a specific biblical context starting with the gospel of John.
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: There is a respectable school of thought that says that Christians should not really get involved in politics and should really keep their hands clean and spend their time in prayer. People often ask us why do you get involved, you are such a nice person! Today I want to review with you the various areas of social justice.
Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an Assistants' Retreat in Guelph, ON, in 1994. This particular retreat was for assistants that had been a part of the l'Arche community for 2-5 years.
Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Meditation #1: I want to speak to you this afternoon about one verse in scripture: Matthew 5:48. "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. 'Perfect' in this context and culture means to be whole or holy, not to be without any flaws. I want to talk you you about the call to be holy. Meditation #2: In John�s gospel after the resurrection, Jesus is having breakfast with his disciples. This story is an icon for me of Jesus being the heart of community.
Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at an Assistants' Retreat in Guelph, ON, in 1994. This particular retreat was for assistants that had been a part of the l'Arche community for 2-5 years.
Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Meditation #3: Simone Weil wrote about affliction and noted it can happen to both individuals and societies. 3 main lies that afflicted societies live by are: 1) the more I have the happier I will be. It's the lie of consumerism; 2) the most important people are at the top. Gospel says it�s a lie. It�s the lie of competition; 3) I don�t need other people and can make it on my own. It�s the lie of individualism. Meditation #4: Thomas Merton says prayer is a corrective lens that does away with distorted view of reality that seems to be my normal vision . Prayer allow me to see what is as it really is.
Item consists of 1 audio cassette featuring a talk given at a Renewal Retreat in 1979. The title of the retreat was "Unless a Man Be Born Again."
Content notes (or transcription) from beginning of the recording: Today is the crucifixion. In some sense in St John's gospel, the crucifixion is the resurrection. The crucifixion is the moment of glory. This gospel is very different from the others. The feeling of the passion story is one of a victory.
