“L’Arche Across America”: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Journey
On Tuesday, May 9, three core members and three assistants of L’Arche Boston North will set out on an 8,000-mile, 26-day odyssey across America and back. They will visit twelve L’Arche communities from Syracuse and St. Louis to Seattle and Los Angeles. Along the way they will see Niagara Falls, Mt. Rushmore, Glacier National Park, the Pacific Coast Highway, and the Grand Canyon. The Birth of a Dream The plan […]
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L’Arche Assistant Travels to Trosly
“I could not stop smiling,” said L’Arche Boston North assistant Ariana Bachman about her week in Trosly, the French village where L’Arche was founded in 1964 and where founder Jean Vanier still lives today. That hardly seems to qualify as news. As head of Nazorean House and a L’Arche Boston North Assistant for nearly ten years, Ariana smiles often and broadly. For six days, December 4–9, she was one of […]
Read MoreMajority Turnout Among Core Members
Here are some Election Night facts you didn’t get on CNN: Among core members of L’Arche Boston North, turnout was 53 percent. Nazorean and Peace House had the highest turnouts, each sending three of four core members to the polls. Of the nine core members who voted, seven were women and two men. You can analyze these results but the message is clear. The majority of those with intellectual disabilities […]
Read MoreDan Comes Home to Pat’s House
The timing couldn’t have been better. Just a month after a new fully accessible home opened at L’Arche Boston North, one of our core members living here underwent surgery on his spine. This week Dan came back to Pat’s House, after successful surgery and three weeks of rehab. While Dan continues to recover with his neck immobilized in a brace, he is using a hospital bed, a specially adapted wheelchair, […]
Read MoreWelcome Our New Core Member, Gentleman John
“Welcome is one of the signs that a community is alive,” Jean Vanier writes in Community and Growth. “If a community is closing its doors, that is a sign that hearts are closing as well.” As Americans we get this. Yesterday our grandparents arrived as strangers. Today we argue over immigration. At L’Arche we get it too. Pat’s House welcomed John, a new core member, on Friday, September 30, and […]
Read MoreWelcome to Pat’s House!
At an open house on Saturday, September 24, our new home at L’Arche Boston North was dedicated and given its official name: Pat’s House, in honor of our founding assistant Sr. Pat Murphy. Here are a few photos from the perfect fall day at 9 Valley Street in Merrimac, Massachusetts. Sr. Pat spoke at the dedication, accompanied by longtime assistant and pastoral minister Tom Murphy (no relation) and four of […]
Read MoreElizabeth Buckley Memorial Service
With great sadness we share that Elizabeth Buckley, a long-time member of L’Arche and a beloved member of the Daybreak community, died peacefully on July 24, 2016 in her apartment due to circulatory complications. She was 84 years old. Please join the L’Arche Boston North community as we remember our founding Community Leader Elizabeth Buckley Memorial Service Thursday, October, 6th at 5pm Masonic Lodge 70 Topsfield Rd, Ipswich, MA RSVP: […]
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