The L'Arche Canada of Richmond Hills, Ontario, Canada - Jean Vanier - Daily Thought - Sunday, 3 September 2017 "Linked through our Wounds"

The L'Arche Canada of Richmond Hills, Ontario, Canada -  Jean Vanier - Daily Thought - Sunday, 3 September 2017 "Linked through our Wounds"
I see my wounds in the wounded person with a handicap. That is also my fragility. Often we are in a covenant because of our wounds. We are linked through them and there is a real fraternity between us because we are no longer on a pedestal. [Jean Vanier, L'Arche Canada | L'Arche Canada Foundation | Jean Vanier Online]
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The L'Arche Canada of Richmond Hills, Ontario, Canada for Saturday, 2 September 2017 -Jean Vanier - Daily Thought - Saturday, 2 September 2017 "An Insight from Jung"
Carl Jung in one of his letters says this: I find you Christians a very good people. When you see somebody in prison, you see Jesus. When you see somebody hungry, you give him food and see Jesus. When you see someone naked, you see Jesus. But what I don't understand is why you don't see Jesus in your own poverty. Why is it that you see him in the poor that are outside of you but you don't in the poor one that is inside of you? [Jean Vanier, L'Arche Canada | L'Arche Canada Foundation | Jean Vanier Online]
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The L'Arche Canada of Richmond Hills, Ontario, Canada for Friday, 1 September 2017 - Jean Vanier - Daily Thought - Friday, 1 September 2017 "Letting Go of the Mask"
Disabled persons can reveal to me my tenderness. But they can also reveal to me my hardness. They can reveal to me a world of darkness in me and a capacity to hurt that I don't want to admit and which I don't want to accept. But the discovery of my wounds, of my own brokenness, is a source of peace if I accept it, because then I do not have to pretend that I am what I am not. I do not need a mask. [Jean Vanier, L'Arche Canada | L'Arche Canada Foundation | Jean Vanier Online]
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