Sharing Life: Stories of L'Arche Founders

by Jean Vanier, Carolyn Whitney-Brown

What does it take to begin a spiritual community? Founders of early L’Arche communities tell stories of risk, joy, pain and growth from life shared with people with intellectual disabilities in France, Canada, India, USA, UK, Ivory Coast, Haiti, and Honduras.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 6, 2019

About the author

Jean Vanier was educated in England and Canada, entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England in 1942. He went to sea in 1945 in the Royal Navy and in 1947 transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. He resigned from the Royal Canadian Navy in 1950 while serving H.M.C.S. Magnificent. He then went to France to work in a students' community outside of Paris. He studied philosophy and theology and obtained a Doctorate from the Catholic Institute in Paris.

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