Item 8 - Meditations #3 and 4 - Doug McCarthy

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CA ON00389 C5-5-20-8

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Meditations #3 and 4 - Doug McCarthy

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  • March 1994 (Creation)

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1 audio cassette

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L'Arche Daybreak (Association)
(1969-)

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University of St. Michael's College, John M. Kelly Library, Special Collections

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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.

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      larche-international-internationale-collection.pdf

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      Title based on contents of the item.
      Includes a typed page with a list of the tapes and the talks and speakers.
      There are duplicates of the cassette.

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      2004 05 ; 2006 02

      Former Item Number

      SR2004 05 74 v8

      Location

      Box 22-23

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      Added by T Wong, 3 October 2018
      Revised by T Wong, 12 February 2024

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