The Woodery Featured on Rogers TV
Published on: January 23rd, 2012
January 2 – 2012
The Woodery was recently featured on “York Region Living”, a lifestyle show on our local station. Click on the photo to go to the 2 minute segment and see people hard at work at the Woodery.
Justin, a worker at the Woodery being interviewed.
A Quote from our founder, Jean Vanier
Published on: January 7th, 2012
Jean Vanier is pictured here near his home in Trosly, France, 2011
A Room Remembers – Dave Hingsburger
Published on: January 4th, 2012
Originally posted in March 2011 on www.davehingsburger.blogspot.com
Tracy
A simple picture, in a simple frame, sat in a place of honour. I noticed it as soon as I entered the room, a small chapel, set up for that day’s training. They use an altar that’s about has high as a coffee table, a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. The picture was of a woman with a disability. She smiled out from the frame, looking over the room. I paused when rolling by to look closely at her. There was happiness in her eyes and joy in her smile. This was a woman who knew love. I could see that in her very bearing.
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Happy New Year!
Published on: January 1st, 2012
Happy New Year everyone! May you be well and may we all have peace in 2012.
Daybreak’s Friends of God: Will and Joey
Published on: December 24th, 2011
Will (blue shirt kneeling) and Joey (red tie standing) at this year's christmas dinner
Good news and great joy to all the world: Today is born our Saviour, Christ the Lord.
Such joyful tidings! We all want to believe the Good News, yet it can often be problematic when we are surrounded so often by Bad News. You cannot pick up a newspaper or turn on the news without seeing another story of violence and suffering both in far away and not so far away places. It is easy to get cynical. Yet Jesus did not broadcast the Good News to us on all-day news channels or on front-page headlines. He came into the world in anonymity, his arrival announced only to those poor and attentive enough to see and discern the hidden beauty behind the vulnerable child lying in the stable.
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Sue Mosteller and David Harmon
Published on: December 18th, 2011
A reflection from Sue Mosteller for our 2011 advent season.
David Harmon
In the Gospel, Joseph received the startling news that his wife, Mary, was pregnant. Sad and terribly disillusioned, Joseph decides how he will move forward. Scripture says, “Because Joseph her husband, was faithful to the law and yet did not want to expose Mary to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.” Joseph chose the most loving direction he could imagine – and only after that did the angel come to help him.
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Celebrating Sue Mosteller
Published on: December 13th, 2011
Sue Mosteller
December 16, 2011 – Tonight will be a very special night at Dayspring as we celebrate Sue Mosteller who has lived here at Daybreak since 1971 – forty years! Daybreak was only two years old as a community in 1971. Everyone lived at the Big House then. In 1976 Sue became Daybreak’s second Community Leader, and a few years after that, Sue was named the first International Coordinator for L’Arche after Jean Vanier himself. Until 1999 when she moved to her loft at the Green House, Sue lived in a Daybreak home or at the Cedars which was the original Dayspring. Sue is a Sister of St. Joseph of Morrow Park, and at this point in her life, she feels it’s time for her to live with a small group of Sisters again. Their home will be just off Broadview, very close to L’Arche Toronto. Sue will remain a member of L’Arche Daybreak and she expects to visit here often for services at the Dayspring, breakfasts with friends, and community events.
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Me and Mel
Published on: December 12th, 2011
John Guido
December 12 – John Guido, the Regional Coordinator for the 9 L’Arche communities in Ontario, shares a very beautiful portait of his journey and friendship with Mel, a member of the L’Arche Toronto community.
“We met in 1985, when I came to live at L’Arche Daybreak where Mel had been living for 13 years. Mel was 43, has a developmental disability and is legally blind; I was 23, a graduate of Notre Dame University and had just left the seminary. Both of us were struggling with self esteem and frustrated in living a life which we felt was worth celebrating.”
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Daybreak’s Friends of God: Joe Child
Published on: December 10th, 2011
Joe Child
When I first went to York Central Hospital in late September, the doctors were not very optimistic about my chances of survival. When I was transferred to Toronto General Hospital, the doctors there were less than hopeful that they could help. On the day I was discharged from there, my surgeon came to see me and said that there were several times when he didn’t think I would pull through.
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Daybreak’s Friends of God: Lauren and Raechel
Published on: December 9th, 2011
~ by Lauren Nagler, 2011
Rachael and Lauren in North Bay, July 2011
In June I started working at the Craft Studio. I was very excited by all the new people I was going to work with and all the new things I was going to learn, however I was a bit worried about how it would affect my relationships in the house. Although I would continue to live at New House I would no longer be part of the intimate details of daily life and would not have the same amount of time together with people that I had for the past few years.
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