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Inner Life

Welcome to Inner Life. Through this monthly newsletter, sent out by email and which you can find here, we want to open up a conversation with you, and with all those seeking inspiration and spiritual nourishment. Each month we ask a different contributor to answer one or other of these questions:

  • “What nourishes your inner life?”
  • “Can you tell us about an encounter that has transformed you?”

This newsletter will evolve in link with the feedback we get, so don’t hesitate to react, to respond to us, to share with us what has touched you, what has jarred with you, and perhaps what has chimed with you.

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A prayer for Aunt Olenka

A prayer for Aunt Olenka

July 2023 – How can one manage to nourish one’s inner life in a country under war ? From Lviv, in Ukraine, Ulyana Roy and Rick Hatem offer us their answer.

The eagle and the poppy

The eagle and the poppy

June 2023 – A young core member of L’Arche in Cuise-La-Motte, Marie Proust agreed to open us to her inner life by answering our questionnaire… A “Proustian” questionnaire, obviously !

Tuned up

Tuned up

May 2023 – How does he do ? One of the international leaders of L’Arche reveals for Inner Life his morning routine: to nourish his inner life, Stefan Posner takes a moment, every morning, to read the Jewish Bible. This tunes him up “like a musical instrument.”

Meet my teachers

Meet my teachers

April 2023 – This month, Inner Life goes to the backyard with Laura DeMaria. A member from L’Arche board of directors in the Washington area, Laura likes to sit with the small birds. This is how she nourishes her inner life.

Musa’s question

Musa’s question

March 2023 – Inner Life takes you to Africa, where the former director of L’Arche Kenya, Maurice Muthiga, tells us how he was transformed by his meeting with Musa.

Back to simplicity

Back to simplicity

January 2023 – To celebrate two years of Inner Life (yes, already!), Olivier Debray, the president of L’Arche Belgium, takes us back to a little simplicity : this is how he nourishes his inner life, after all!

Triumph at the back of the pack

Triumph at the back of the pack

November 2022 – When he had to run a 23 km trail, Christian Petiteau, community leader of L’Arche Le Sénévé in France, made a poor performance on a sport’s level, but an amazing travel “in the landscapes of our humanity”

Like swallows on the wing

Like swallows on the wing

October 2022 – Deputy Leader for the region of Hauts-de-France / Normandie within L’Arche in France, Elisabeth Laurent remembers an encounter that transformed her : the one she made when she met Claudine Didou, in the 90s, at L’Arche Les Sapins.

On the track of the Snow Panther

On the track of the Snow Panther

September 2022 – A great friend of La Ferme, an Irishman, a catholic priest, Phil Kearney contributes here with a reflexion he wrote after seeing a beautiful documentary called ‘The Snow Panther’. It is the story of an encounter, a special one indeed.

The story of a caramel square

The story of a caramel square

July 2022 – A great friend of La Ferme, member of our board of directors, Curt Armstrong is american. Curt recalls an encounter that changed him, one that took place more than 40 years ago. There’s also a caramel square involved.