L'Arche Sudbury


	About L'Arche
	About Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche International
	Charter of the communities of L'Arche
	L'Arche Sudbury Community Mandate

The community celebrated Shrove Tuesday at our gathering place, Cana. Assistants and many others helped to prepare this pre Lent feast.

	Newssheet for the week of May 20, 2013
	This edition of All Aboard the Ark will have to do you for two weeks as some of us are off to Vancouver for the L\'Arche Canada 2013 AGM.

Monday May 20, 2013
• Victoria Day - Office closed

Tuesday May 21, 2013
• Reflective Meeting 9:30 am
• Community Night 4:30 pm

Wednesday May 22, 2013
• Happy Birthday Alain.
• L’Arche Sudbury Delegates off to Vancouver for the L’Arche Canada 2013 AGM

Saturday May 25, 2013
• Happy Birthday Ryan.
• Teresa on call this weekend.

Sunday May 26, 2013
• Happy Birthday Carolyn.

Our hope and vision must be rooted in the present

So much suffering comes from disappointment. We wait for something which we believe will bring us happiness, and it does not arrive. We see only the negative things that have come our way - illness, a child with a handicap - and we close up in anger and rebellion. Human wisdom means coming back down to earth; not closing ourselves up in a beautiful ideal which we must attain, but welcoming reality just as it is; discovering God present in reality; not struggling against reality, but working with it; discovering the seed of life, the possibilities hidden in it. Of course we must have a vision for the future and focus on it, we must have a plan, and be aware of and responsible for the future, but our hope and vision must be rooted in the present. This is Buddhist wisdom, but also Christian - to discover God in the present moment, to be a friend of time and of reality.

- Jean Vanier, Our Journey Home, pp. 165-166

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