“We want to be experts in presence,” says founder of L’Arche Jean Vanier, halfway through Summer in the Forest. He is explaining the essential ethos of L’Arche’s 149 communities of people with learning disabilities in 37 countries: “We take time, and we waste time, to become who we are called to be.”
22 June 2017, The Tablet
'Flowing, loving, flowering'
The truths at the heart of L’Arche
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