Product Description: An Ark for the Poor, originally published in 1995, is a history of L'Arche. Jean Vanier himself revised this updated edition as he looks back on 47 years of L'Arche communities. Founded in 1964 in Trosly-Breuil, France, LArche communities can now be found worldwide...read more

Speaks to spiritually wounded people of the comfort, guidance, and transformation offered by Jesus

Product Description: In this provocative work, Jean Vanier shares his profoundly human vision for creating a common good that radically changes our communities, our relationships, and ourselves. He proposes that by opening ourselves to outsiders, those that we perceive as weak, different, or inferior, we can achieve pure personal and societal freedom...read more

Product Description: In this provocative work, Jean Vanier shares his profoundly human vision for creating a common good that radically changes our communities, our relationships, and ourselves. He proposes that by opening ourselves to outsiders, those that we perceive as weak, different, or inferior, we can achieve pure personal and societal freedom...read more

Product Description: In six meditative pieces Jean Vanier opens up God's invitation to us today to create new places of belonging and sharing, of peace and kindness. In Befriending the Stranger Jean Vanier reflects on who we are and how we build our communities, and in particular asks, can we be truly compassionate towards others if we are not compassionate towards ourselves? In a series of six meditative pieces, he opens up God's invitation to us today, in the midst of all the violence and corruption of the world, to create new places of belonging and sharing, of peace and kindness, where each one is loved and accepted with one's own fragility, abilities and disabilities...read more

Product Description: Wholeness, healing and hope amid a broken and suffering world are the themes of this powerful prose-poem.

Product Description: Wholeness, healing and hope amid a broken and suffering world are the themes of this powerful prose-poem.

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Book Description: The sacrament of Confession is probably the most talked about sacraments in the Catholic Church, as well as a spiritual practice being revived in many Protestant churches. This book explores the sacrament focusing on the two people who confess – God and the penitent...read more

Provides a spiritual roadmap toward peace and understanding among people from different religions, ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds, based on the fundamental principle of peace--a belief that each person is important. Original.

Product Description: This firsthand account details the life of Jean Vanier and his L’Arche movement—a revolutionary experience of living in community that started in 1964. It came to be known as a diverse place of refuge that gave its inhabitants hope...read more

Reinterprets the ancient wisdom of the Greek philosopher Aristotle in terms of the challenges of the modern world, exploring the interconnections among morality, psychology, and spirituality and showing how these paths to knowledge, self-knowledge, and wisdom give meaning to our lives and assist in the search for happiness and fulfillment. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: With simplicity and conviction, this book shows how a life shared with handicapped people calls us to selflessness and risk. The vulnerability that is so much part of their lives reveals our own limits and forces us to ask questions that can lead us to profound liberation.

Product Description: This book describes the spirituality of L'Arche, an international movement founded by Jean Vanier in 1964 in France. The Heart of L'Arche was first published by Novalis in 1995 and has been in demand ever since. This updated edition was revised by Vanier himself, as he looks back on 47 years of the spirituality of LArche, at the age of 83...read more

Product Description: In the moving uncluttered language Jean Vanier tells us that the message of Christianity is quite simple, profound in its effect and capable of transforming our lives totally...Even if I Meet Jesus is firstly a children's book, it has instant appeal and application to adults...read more

Product Description: This is the story of the ways God has loved us from the beginning of time, especially through His Son, Jesus. It is written to instruct and to inspire trust so that the child can love God and all creatures in God.