Product Description: Fifty years ago, the Second Vatican Council released its vision of a Church which would put society s weakest and most marginalized members at its heart. At the same time, Jean Vanier founded the l'Arche, a new sort of Christian community in which people with severe learning difficulties would be welcomed to a life of freedom and dignity...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

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

Product Description: This work is an exploration into the Gospel of John. By retracing the actual steps through the Holy Land of the events and accounts of this gospel, Vanier recreates a vivid and intimate portrait of what is often called the “mystical gospel...read more

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

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 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: More than 40 years ago, Jean Vanier, author of the bestselling Becoming Human, invited two men with developmental disabilities to live in his home. This simple act of friendship and compassion has grown into a worldwide phenomenon...read more

Product Description: Drawing on his years of experience of Christian community life with and for people with disabilities, the author explores the implications of the relationship of man and woman from a Christian and community standpoint.

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

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: 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: One in ten people are thought to suffer from depression at some time in their life. This book offers a Christian-based approach to dealing with depression.