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Jean Vanier

Jean Vanier . L’Arche Community Living .

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Jean Vanier

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  1. Jean Vanier

  2. L’Arche Community Living • It has been said that one true measure of civilization is how well we treat the most vulnerable members of our society. Jean Vanier truly understands the importance of kindness, compassion, understanding, and, as we say in Hebrew, "tikunolam," or repairing the world •  By creating L'Arche - a remarkable and unique network of homes where the developmentally disabled live comfortably, together with volunteers and staff - Vanier has given those who are often forgotten and locked away as worthless, the miraculous opportunity to play an important role, by touching and interacting with others. 

  3. Community Living • L’Arche is about being faithful over many years to the women and men with a disability who have already found a home within L’Arche. We are also committed to opening new programs and expanding others so that more people can find a home and community within L’Arche

  4. Vanier’s Vision... • Vanier's vision of community is essential, where all belong and can share in each other's special gifts regardless of "race, religion, culture, abilities or disabilities • God created us as social beings and the desire for relationships that are fulfilling. We need a sense of belonging in order to survive and L'Arche fulfills that belonging

  5. Jean Vanier’s...5 principles of Humanity • PRINCIPLE #1:All humans are sacred, no matter what their culture, race religion, capacities or in-capacities, or weaknesses or strengths may be. Each of us needs help to become all that we might be.PRINCIPLE #2:Our world and our individual lives are in the process of evolving. It is a question of loving all the essential values of the past and reflecting on how they are to be lived in the new. These values include openness, love, wholeness, unity, peace, the human potential for healing and redemption, and, most important, the necessity of forgiveness.PRINCIPLE #3:Maturity comes through working with others, through dialogue, and through a sense of belonging and a searching together.PRINCIPLE #4:Human beings need to be encouraged to make choices, and to become responsible for their own lives and for the lives of others.PRINCIPLE #5:In order to make such choices, we need to reflect and to seek truth and meaning. To be human means to remain connected to our humanness and to reality, to choose to move toward connectedness. To be human is to accept ourselves just as we are, with our own history, and to accept others as they are.

  6. Activity Task • Why Do We Need One Another? • What Do We Need From One Another? • Your Task: • Think of why we as humans need each other. • Write your answer on the small piece of paper. • Once you are finished hand your answers in… • You will then receive an answer card and read out your new answer

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