Fr. James, CFR has worn the habit through Manhattan subway cars and transatlantic flights, and at 80 he can tell you exactly what it opens. Strangers stop him in the street and hand him the hardest parts of their lives — troubled marriages, cancer, the people they have buried.

Chapters
0:00 "The Best Way to Get Love"
0:11 His Sister, Fifty Years a Nun
0:30 "You'd Have More Vocations"
0:55 A Seat on the Manhattan Subway
1:23 Twenty-Five Dollars From a Stranger
1:59 The Woman on the Flight Home
2:34 It Goes Both Ways
2:57 Sixty-Five Years In

➡️ ABOUT THIS PROJECT
This year marks 800 years since the death of St. Francis of Assisi. To mark the anniversary, we're travelling to friaries across the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal to sit down with the friars and hear, in their own words, what St. Francis means to them — how they first encountered him, what drew them to the Franciscan life, and what the Poverello continues to teach them today.

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➡️ ABOUT THIS PROJECT
This year marks 800 years since the death of St. Francis of Assisi. To mark the anniversary, we're travelling to friaries across the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal to sit down with the friars and hear, in their own words, what St. Francis means to them, how they first encountered him, what drew them to the Franciscan life, and what the Poverello continues to teach them today.

Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss the next one.

➡️ GIVING
If you find these videos helpful, please consider giving to us here: https://www.franciscanfriars.com/donate

Thank you.

➡️ SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram: /cfr_franciscans
Facebook: /friarsoftherenewal