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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 Christmas Conversation

A Christmas Conversation

June 2022 – A computer scientist and a filmmaker, Fabio Bertagnin is also a consecrated layman and a member of the Focolare Movement.
Fabio remembers here about a conversation he once had, on a Christmas evening, with a Muslim friend.

A late afternoon prayer

A late afternoon prayer

May 2022 – Australian, former deputy leader of L’Arche International, Eileen Glass recalls a time of prayer shared with Sue, during a late afternoon of 1977 : this is a moment that changed everything for Eileen.

Untameable

Untameable

March 2022 – A long-time member of L’Arche and Lebanese, Hoda Aouad-Sharkey has to deal with an inner life which is a wild, untameable animal…

The Best Time of Day

The Best Time of Day

February 2022 – An American from the West Coast, a father of three children, one of whom is differently abled, an entrepreneur and a member of the board of L’Arche USA, Brian Berg gets up early, very early, to nourish his inner life.

Salman

Salman

January 2022 – Patrick Fontaine, who used to be the international leader of L’Arche, recalls the day when, in 2006, Salman’s cry shook him to the core.

The Small Things

The Small Things

November 2021 – Director of the Christian Office for Persons with a Disability in Paris after spending 25 years in L’Arche, Philippe de Lachapelle explains us how he nourishes his inner life : on a bicycle.

Eat, pray, celebrate

Eat, pray, celebrate

October 2021 – Former leader of L’Arche UK, now leading the “Charter Process” for L’Arche International, John Sargent tells us here about the encounter with Brian : a life-changing one !

The Way of the agnostic

The Way of the agnostic

November 2021 – Born to a Chinese mother and a German father, now the director of the most recent L’Arche community in Germany, Landsberg, Bianca Berger considers herself an agnostic, yet with a strong inner life. Here’s how she nourishes it.

The Shared Meal

The Shared Meal

July 2021 – After serving L’Arche for a long time as director of the community of La Merci, in Charente (France), Eric Devautour recently retired. When asked “Your inner life, how do you nourish it?”, Eric has an answer of his own, where “nourish” is not a vain word.

The guardian

The guardian

June 2021 – A Hindu, previously the national leader of L’Arche in India, today the International Delegate for several countries in the L’Arche federation, Rajeevan CC recalls his first night at L’Arche, and that moment when he wanted to flee. But the guardian stood up.