The L'Arche Canada Foundation in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada with Jean Vanier's Daily Thoughts for Wednesday, 17 August 2016 "Cry of the Poor"
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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