For Fr. Glenn, St. Francis loved the Church the way we love our own mothers. He knew her flaws on the human side, and he saw her as the Holy Mother and the mystical body of Christ, where "everything that we need to know and long to know about God and about Christ" is given. He also shares why he's grateful to be a CFR, in a community that is "not about uniformity, but about unity."

Chapters
0:00 Given Through the Church
0:13 Francis and the Church
0:21 Francis in the Movies
0:53 A Truly Catholic Man
1:13 Holy Mother Church
1:44 Seeing Beyond Appearances
2:05 The Mystical Body of Christ
2:30 Why I'm a Friar
2:56 The Soil I'm Planted In
3:24 Charismatic and Latin Mass
3:55 Unity, Not Uniformity
4:18 Corporately Catholic

➡️ 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.

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