Wayne Northey: This I can celebrate!
Though he has lived in France for many years, and elsewhere in Europe before that, Jean Vanier remains as Canadian as delight at winter giving way to a new spring. His parents had a powerful impact on Canada’s emergence as a mature and independent country, and so it was natural for him to join in, even across the Atlantic, in the joyfulness surrounding the country’s 150th birthday party. But that joy, he reminded his fellow Canadians, comes from encountering each other with love. “Joy is when we meet people – not above them, not below them, but as children of God.”
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