From Brokenness to Community [antikvár]

FOREWORD Jt is a real joy for me to introduce these Harvard lectures by Jean Vanier, especially since Harvard University and Jean Vanier have had a great i' impact on my life. i I will never forget the morning when Jean Vanier taught in my course at the Harvard Divinity School. The class was to start at 8:30 a.m. and I j' was afraid he wouldn't make it on time, considering the heavy Cambridge morning traffic. Elizabeth Buckley, who was driving him, knew the back streets of Cambridge and managed to bring | him to Andover Hall one minute before the class was supposed to start. As always, he radiated calm \ and peace, while I was all nerves. As he walked into the building, with his slightly stooped form, [ his strong features and his white, unkempt hair, | and wearing his seemingly permanent blue cor- j' duroy pants and patched-up windbreaker jacket, | he greeted me with a big smile and handed me a small mosaic of the Virgin and Child made by the J' handicapped members of the L'Arche Community in France. [ It was that tall, self-confident, poorly dressed, l y rh P!, i