Writings

Work That Procures Honour

Even the most disparaged jobs can give those who do them a sense of purpose and dignity in the eyes (…) Read more →

A couple deprived of their love
Faith, hope and charity in the Fourth World: it seems that our meditation takes us (…) Read more →

Making a mockery of all efforts for the future
If the Son of God was made man in our time, (…) Read more →

A life without rhythm or meaning
Let us put ourselves in the presence of those men and women, those families and (…) Read more →

Any action is more complicated when one lives in a constantly changing situation in a remote, poorly served area, unaware (…) Read more →

(…) We have undertaken the extremely difficult task of bringing into the street within reach of the poorest children knowledge (…) Read more →

The innovations, the really new ideas that profoundly change our hearts, our ways of thinking and, consequently, our structures and (…) Read more →

I started to work at four years
I was four years old when I started to earn a living by serving (…) Read more →

It was 30 years ago that I first visited the camp at Noisy le Grand where 252 families had been (…) Read more →

-Between reform and revolution, which do you choose?
-Is this the right question? The poorest have seen so many reforms and (…) Read more →