Community and GrowthPaulist Press, 1989 - 331 pages If you've ever thought about community, whether as a lifestyle or simply as an expression of deeper fellowship with others, this book is essential reading. In the fifteen years since it first appeared in English, it has become the classic text on the subject -- read, dog-eared, borrowed, and discussed.Vanier is not a rosy idealist. That is because his writing is based not on theories, but on a wealth of wisdom gleaned over many years living in community, experiencing difficult days and joyous celebrations, times of struggle and hard-won success, moments of doubt and inspiration. He acknowledges the inevitable little frustrations of a life lived with and for others, but he also helps the reader see that without struggle there is no true growth. |
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Page 3
... perhaps parents and those in authority controlled children too much and did not see them as unique and capable of growing towards greater personal freedom . Personal conscience was in some ways sacrificed to group consciousness . Today ...
... perhaps parents and those in authority controlled children too much and did not see them as unique and capable of growing towards greater personal freedom . Personal conscience was in some ways sacrificed to group consciousness . Today ...
Page 34
... Perhaps it is this which we refuse to look at . The faults we criticise in others are often those we refuse to face in ourselves . Those who criticise others and the community , and seek an ideal one , are often in flight from their own ...
... Perhaps it is this which we refuse to look at . The faults we criticise in others are often those we refuse to face in ourselves . Those who criticise others and the community , and seek an ideal one , are often in flight from their own ...
Page 37
... Perhaps they feel rejected . Perhaps they feel that no one is listening to what they have to say or maybe they feel incapable of expressing what is inside them . Perhaps the ONE HEART , ONE SOUL , ONE SPIRIT 37.
... Perhaps they feel rejected . Perhaps they feel that no one is listening to what they have to say or maybe they feel incapable of expressing what is inside them . Perhaps the ONE HEART , ONE SOUL , ONE SPIRIT 37.
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Jean Vanier. incapable of expressing what is inside them . Perhaps the com- munity is being too rigid or too legalistic and set in its ways ; there may even be a lack of love and of truth . To forgive is also to look into oneself and to ...
Jean Vanier. incapable of expressing what is inside them . Perhaps the com- munity is being too rigid or too legalistic and set in its ways ; there may even be a lack of love and of truth . To forgive is also to look into oneself and to ...
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... perhaps can help us to understand what is happening , strengthen us in our efforts and help us discover God's pardon . Once we have recognised that a branch is twisted , that we have these blocks of antipathy , the next step is to try ...
... perhaps can help us to understand what is happening , strengthen us in our efforts and help us discover God's pardon . Once we have recognised that a branch is twisted , that we have these blocks of antipathy , the next step is to try ...
Contents
LXV | 173 |
LXVI | 174 |
LXVII | 177 |
LXVIII | 181 |
LXIX | 182 |
LXX | 183 |
LXXI | 185 |
LXXIII | 189 |
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XV | 47 |
XVI | 49 |
XVII | 50 |
XVIII | 55 |
XIX | 61 |
XX | 64 |
XXI | 66 |
XXII | 68 |
XXIII | 72 |
XXIV | 76 |
XXV | 78 |
XXVI | 79 |
XXVII | 82 |
XXVIII | 84 |
XXIX | 85 |
XXX | 88 |
XXXI | 90 |
XXXII | 93 |
XXXIII | 95 |
XXXIV | 97 |
XXXV | 98 |
XXXVI | 101 |
XXXVII | 104 |
XXXVIII | 108 |
XXXIX | 109 |
XL | 113 |
XLI | 115 |
XLII | 118 |
XLIII | 120 |
XLIV | 126 |
XLV | 128 |
XLVI | 131 |
XLVII | 134 |
XLVIII | 139 |
XLIX | 141 |
L | 142 |
LI | 143 |
LII | 144 |
LIII | 149 |
LIV | 152 |
LV | 155 |
LVII | 157 |
LVIII | 158 |
LIX | 160 |
LX | 161 |
LXI | 162 |
LXII | 165 |
LXIII | 169 |
LXIV | 171 |
LXXIV | 194 |
LXXV | 195 |
LXXVI | 199 |
LXXVII | 203 |
LXXVIII | 205 |
LXXIX | 209 |
LXXX | 212 |
LXXXI | 216 |
LXXXII | 218 |
LXXXIII | 221 |
LXXXIV | 224 |
LXXXV | 227 |
LXXXVI | 229 |
LXXXVII | 231 |
LXXXVIII | 236 |
LXXXIX | 238 |
XC | 240 |
XCI | 247 |
XCII | 249 |
XCIII | 250 |
XCIV | 251 |
XCV | 253 |
XCVI | 254 |
XCVIII | 255 |
C | 256 |
CI | 260 |
CIII | 261 |
CIV | 262 |
CV | 265 |
CVI | 270 |
CVII | 272 |
CVIII | 273 |
CIX | 274 |
CX | 280 |
CXI | 282 |
CXII | 283 |
CXIII | 284 |
CXVI | 288 |
CXVII | 290 |
CXVIII | 297 |
CXIX | 300 |
CXX | 302 |
CXXI | 303 |
CXXII | 304 |
CXXIII | 307 |
CXXV | 313 |
CXXVI | 322 |
CXXVII | 325 |
CXXVIII | 328 |
CXXIX | 329 |
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accept afraid aggression anguish authority beautiful become body bring brothers and sisters Bruno Bettelheim called celebration child Christ Christian community Church commit communion covenant create danger deepen Dietrich Bonhoeffer difficulties discernment discover egoism emotional essential Eucharist everything external faith Father fear feel fidelity forgiveness gift give grow growth handicap healing heart Henri Nouwen Holy Spirit hope human important individual inner freedom insecurity Jean Vanier Jesus leader listen live in community loneliness marriage means meeting Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa nourishment ourselves Parker Palmer peace person poor poverty pray prayer presence priest prophetic realise recognise reject relationships responsibility role Roman Catholic Church Scott Peck seek share simply someone sometimes spiritual guide suffering Taizé community tensions Thérèse de Lisieux things true truly trust truth unity vision vulnerable weakness welcomed words wound
Popular passages
Page 45 - A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
Page 127 - If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Page 93 - I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians...
Page 34 - Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Page 71 - If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
Page 301 - Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Page 7 - Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Page 49 - For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Page 58 - Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common.