The Gospel in Human Decline

Posted on May 1, 2015
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In several of his books, Henri Nouwen recounts how the severely physically and mentally disabled residents of Daybreak, a Lโ€™Arche community became his spiritual mentors. Nouwen saw, with the eyes of faith, what many could not: the Spirit is not hindered by human frailty. He believed that great saints who are in continual, hidden converse…