The Founder of the worldwide l’Arche communities examines the significance and sources of love and sexuality. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience of Christians community life with people who are mentally handicapped and their assistants he explores the implications of the relationship of man and woman from a Christian and community standpoint.
When Vanier speaks of the cry for love within a person who is disabled, he draws the wider parallel of that same search within every man and woman; the fragility and vulnerability of each person at the level of the heart and in the search for relationship.
Does love necessarily imply sexual relationship? How do we live with anguish and with loneliness? How do we reach emotional maturity? Vanier does not offer easy answer and neither does he avoid the most intimate and searching questions. This is a book to be pondered and re-read for the wealth of insight into the meaning and sources of human sexuality.