Download or read book Becoming Human written by Jean Vanier and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply compassionate work, Jean Vanier shares his profoundly human vision for creating a common good that radically changes our communities, our relationships and ourselves. He proposes that by opening ourselves to others, those we perceive as weak, different, or inferior, we can achieve true personal and societal freedom. The 10th anniversary edition includes a new Introduction by the author.
Download or read book Community and Growth written by Jean Vanier and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever thought about community, whether as a lifestyle or simply as an expression of deeper fellowship with others, this book is essential reading. In the fifteen years since it first appeared in English, it has become the classic text on the subject -- read, dog-eared, borrowed, and discussed.Vanier is not a rosy idealist. That is because his writing is based not on theories, but on a wealth of wisdom gleaned over many years living in community, experiencing difficult days and joyous celebrations, times of struggle and hard-won success, moments of doubt and inspiration. He acknowledges the inevitable little frustrations of a life lived with and for others, but he also helps the reader see that without struggle there is no true growth.
Download or read book Drawn Into the Mystery of Jesus Through the Gospel of John written by Jean Vanier and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Vanier celebrates the gospel of John in his highly anticipated latest work, Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John. Thoroughly personal and inspiring, it challenges all Christians to encounter the fullness of life lived in close communion with God. Vanier writes: "These insights that I share in this book come from the life of Jesus in me ... They also flow from my life with people who are weak and who have taught me to welcome Jesus from the place of the poverty in me." Jean Vanier was a friend and influential mentor to the late Henri Nouwen. Toward the end of his life, Nouwen left Harvard to live and work at one of Jean Vanier's L'Arche communities. This was perhaps the most profound experience of Christianity Nouwen experienced. The thought and spiritual direction/discipleship of Jean Vanier is available to all in Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John.
Download or read book Encountering the Other written by Jean Vanier and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on encountering differences among people from many different nationalities and religions and the healing and peace that can result when we explore and celebrate those differences.
Download or read book Befriending the Stranger written by Jean Vanier and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Befriending the Stranger, Jean Vanier reflects on who we are and how we build our communities, and in particular asks, can we be truly compassionate towards others if we are not compassionate towards ourselves? In a series of six meditative pieces, he opens up God's invitation to us today, in the midst of all the violence and corruption of the world, to create new places of belonging and sharing, of peace and kindness, where each one is loved and accepted with one's own fragility, abilities, and disabilities. +
Download or read book Seeing Beyond Depression written by Jean Vanier and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great spiritual writers of our time explores how we can move out of the darkness of depression into the light. +
Download or read book Living Gently in a Violent World written by Jean Vanier and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church has much to learn from an often overlooked community--those with disabilities. In this fascinating book, theologian Stanley Hauer was collaborates wi...
Download or read book Jean Vanier written by Michael W. Higgins and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Templeton Prize and numerous other international and prestigious honors, Jean Vanier lives a radical poverty of surrender in a time of fanatical acquisitiveness, economic disparity, and mounting bellicosity among nations. He is a philosopher of the heart, icon of wholeness, and justice activist. Through such key notions as trust, community, relationship, and humility, Vanier has built up a network of service and nurturing growth spanning the globe: the L'Arche Movement. He has advocated for peace in a world that treasures its violence, written extensively about the very meaning of human personhood, and championed sensitivity to the diverse spiritual traditions that make up our world. His remarkable life has included rich friendships with Blessed Mother Teresa, St. John Paul II and Henri Nouwen. Jean Vanier is a man of complexity and formal philosophical training, a scion of a family of national pedigree, and one of the seminal religious and inspirational figures of our time. In this volume, Michael Higgins focuses on Vanier’s many interconnections—personal and conceptual—with the mighty and the humble, the pious and the secular, as well as the young and the seasoned. People of God is a series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men has known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day.
Download or read book I Meet Jesus written by Jean Vanier and published by Médiaspaul. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Meet Jesus is the story of the love of God. This book will teach children that Jesus loves them no matter who they are or what they have done. The text and images can be used for individual meditation or group discussion. The focus of the text is that life is not easy but the meaning of our struggles is found in our hearts where we connect with God, through Jesus, in love.
Download or read book Finding Peace written by Jean Vanier and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-07-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it like exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sources of conflict and fear within and among individuals, communities, and nations that thwart us in our quest for peace. Peace is not just the work of governments or armies or diplomats, he argues, but the task of each one of us. We can all become makers of peace. We can do our part. And though it's easy to be a lover of peace and much more difficult to be a worker for peace, Vanier shows us that ordinary people, unknown and unrecognized, are transforming our world little by little, finding peace in our neighbourhoods and lighting the way to change.
Download or read book I Walk with Jesus written by Jean Vanier and published by Médiaspaul. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus always walks with us, but are we like the disciples on the road to Emmaus and do not see him? Jean Vanier invites children to see how Jesus calls us to live and to follow him; to be his disciples, his friends today, in our world. These pages were written to help us recognise Jesus, to see more clearly where he is alive in the world today. The book is divided into three sections based on the story of Emmaus. Its focus is to express the central message of the Gospel to serve those who are suffering and needy, and we are strengthened in this by prayers, the word of God and the love of our brothers and sisters. This book is simple enough for children and powerful for adults.
Download or read book The Broken Body written by Jean Vanier and published by Darton, Longman & Todd. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wholeness, healing and hope amid a broken and suffering world are the themes of this powerful prose-poem.
Download or read book Man and Woman God Made Them written by Jean Vanier and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new and fully revised edition of a classic text, Jean Vanier examines the significance and sources of human sexuality. Drawing on his years of experience of Christian community life with and for people with disabilities, he explores the implications of the relationship of man and woman from a Christian and community standpoint. When Vanier speaks of the cry for love within a person who is disabled, he draws the wider parallel of that same search within every man and woman; the fragility and vulnerability of each person at the level of the heart and in the search for relationship. An intimate and searching book, Man and Woman God Made Them contains a wealth of insight into the meaning and sources of human sexuality. "This is a very remarkable book, full of wisdom, humour and profound insight into the mystery of human sexuality... In reading this book I touched again the great mystery of the divine gift of love, offered to us through a deeply wounded humanity." From the Foreword by Henri J. M. Nouwen +
Download or read book Our Journey Home written by Jean Vanier and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Our Journey Home Jean Vanier sums up the lessons he has learned and the wisdom he has accumulated during the past thirty years. More than an autobiography or a simple history of L'Arche Our Journey Home describes what the experience of living with the handicapped has taught Vanier about the beauty and holiness of life. From this experience, he writes of the need to overcome the divisions and walls that separate us from one another and prevent us from recognizing our underlying oneness. Though rooted in the L'Arche movement, Vanier's message is really universal. He explores the basic meaning of human existence as reflected in such experiences as childhood, friendship, aging, illness, death, bereavement, loneliness, and community.
Download or read book Tender to the World written by Carolyn Whitney-Brown and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Vanier’s spiritual vision and sense of humour shaped L’Arche, but the organization was also informed by its surprising history with the United Church of Canada. In Tender to the World Carolyn Whitney-Brown explores the connections between the two organizations through diverse critical insights from Julia Kristeva, Doreen Massey, and Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as Vanier's controversial articulation of the gift of weakness. Tracing the five-decade relationship between L'Arche and the United Church alongside evolving disability theories, Whitney-Brown examines both the fundamental importance of stories and the agency of people with intellectual disabilities. Inversion - a transformative overturning of expectations in social interactions - can be upsetting or exciting, challenging or inspiring, she argues. This book offers a fresh look at how L'Arche and the United Church have worked to break down walls of difference, illuminating how each tenders something unexpected to the other and to the world. At a time when many are seeking new visions for society, the long and complex relationship between Canada's largest Protestant denomination and L'Arche offers both encouragement and a deeper way to approach questions of living in diverse communities.
Download or read book An Ark for the Poor written by Jean Vanier and published by Novalis Press (CN). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'Arche communities welcome all persons, no matter what their weaknesses or handicaps. In this book, L'Arche's founder, Jean Vanie, tells the story of the community's first thirty years: its foundations and growth, its joys and sorrows. Rather than list dates and places, Vanier chronicles the transformation that occurs when the poorest and weakest among us find a haven of love and safety to carry them through the storms of life: an ark for the poor.
Download or read book Be Not Afraid written by Jean Vanier and published by . This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Vanier is the founder of the l'Arche communities which provide shelter for men and women who have a mental handicap. In this book he writes with sympathy and understanding of the fear Christians have of letting go of personal habits and ingrained attitudes, fear of the unknown and of the extent of self-commitment. He also shows how fear, in all its forms, can undermine ordinary human relationships.
