L'Arche Canada Foundation of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada Daily Thought by Jean Vanier for Saturday, 23 May 2015 "Communities of the Old"
Some communities are composed entirely of old people. Their time of expansion seems to be over and it is probably now too late for a young person to come into them. The gaiety and peace of these communities is sometimes astonishing. Their members know that their community is dying but they don't mind. They want to live fully and to the end. In other communities, by contrast, old people are in terrible anguish in the face of their sterility. They have not discovered that this sterility can be transformed into a gift of life by offering and suffering.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 156]
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