What would you do if God asked you to give up everything? Fr. Felix, CFR was a biophysics student — both his parents were physicists — living the ordinary university life of parties and half-believed faith, when in his third year of college he suddenly knew, with a certainty he still can't explain, that Jesus was real and that he was God. The next day he found a priest on campus and started really reading Scripture for the first time. Then he hit one verse that stopped him cold — and he closed the Bible and swore he wouldn't open it again.

Chapters
0:14 Raised Catholic, But Not Knowing Him
0:37 Studying Biophysics, Living Like Everyone Else
1:04 "I Knew Jesus Was Real"
1:24 Meeting a Priest the Next Day
1:52 Reading Scripture for the First Time
2:13 The Rich Young Man
2:38 "Do This and You Will Live"
2:59 "What More Is There?"
3:25 "Sell All You Own, and Follow Me"
3:50 Closing the Bible
4:15 Looking to Volunteer
4:24 A Homeless Shelter
4:56 Entering the Order

➡️ 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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