The L'Arche Canada Foundation in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada with Jean Vanier's Daily Thoughts for Friday, 26 August 2016 "Fidelity"
Our essential nourishment is the fidelity to the thousand and one small demands of each day, the effort to love and forgive 'the enemy' and to welcome and accept community structures, with all that this brings by way of co-operation with authority. It is fidelity in listening to the poor of the community, in accepting a simple and unheroic life. It is fidelity in directing personal projects towards the good of the community and its poorest members and in renouncing purely personal prestige.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 169]
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