L'Arche since its beginnings

“L’Arche, in fact, has been since its origins (...) an international centre. It seems that more and more it will be oriented to suffering countries. Trosly remains somewhat as the mother house, which cannot be sterile and uninterested in its handicapped brothers on the other continents. (…) I am sure opening the handicapped’s mind to other continents through these centres will bring much good on the human, cultural and spiritual level. Does not the dignity of man come precisely because of his openness to the universal?” (Jean Vanier, A vision of L’Arche: talk given to assistants, 1970) Read...