Colleagues List, May19th, 2019

Vol. XIV No. 42

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:

We have just returned from our three week tour of
Eastern Europe and Russia and have lots to share!
I hope to start doing so with next week's CL issue.

My letter today is short and focuses on the death
of a friend going back to 1967 when I was studying
in Geneva. Jean Vanier came to visit the Canadian
students at my grad school more than a lifetime ago.

Jean died on May 7th. His funeral has just taken place in
the small French village wherein he began the first L'Arche
in the 1960s.  More than 150 L'Arche communities which
circle the globe are now a witness to his vocation.

We have been friends for 52 years and I invite you
to mourn his loss and celebrate his life with me.

Jean's last book "A Cry is Heard - My Path to Peace"
was introduced to readers of Colleagues List last
November 4th, 2018 https://tinyurl.com/y8x98ze2

Regular issues of Colleagues List will continue next week.

Wayne

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SPECIAL ITEM

My Current Anglican Journal Column:

"Serving the Common Good"

 

https://tinyurl.com/y2nysrdb

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NET NOTES

The Funeral of Jean Vanier
held recently in Trosly-Breuil, France
(north of Paris)

"We Will Continue"
La Croix International,
May 17th, 2019

(you must register to read the article)

https://tinyurl.com/y5rm3srp

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice.
But to grow in love requires work -- hard work.

And it can bring pain because it implies loss --
loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that
shelter and define us.

- Jean Vanier

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CLOSING THOUGHT

It's a frightful thing - thinking you have to get God
right in order to get God to love you, thinking you're
always one error away from damnation.

It's a kind of legalism, really...

How ironic. The very condition of humanity is to be
wrong about God. The moment we figure God out,
God ceases to be God.

Maybe it's time to embrace the mystery and let




ourselves off the hook.

- Rachel Held Evans
  (a young American woman writer who also died recently)

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