L'Arche Canada Foundation of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada Daily Thought by Jean Vanier for Monday, 25 May 2015 "The Cry of a Community in Pain"
Sometimes during a meeting of the International Council of L'Arche, we speak of one of our communities as a problem. It has been in crisis for such a long time; assistants do not want to stay and the people with a handicap are not well, and so on. We forget that before being a problem, the community is poor and in pain. In some mysterious way God is present there. The cry of a community in pain is also the cry of the poor. We must approach such a community with great love and respect.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 156]
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