Sunday – 3rd Week of Advent A
My dear brothers and sisters, I'd like to start this reflection with a bit of a personal background and something that I feel is important to kind of share with you, and that is, you know, my own journey can seem to the worldly minded, to the secular philosophy and those who mock faith and religion as a tragedy. Right. Somebody will look at a person like me who's far from the family he loves. I'm in Rome and my family is in Canada, and I'm living a celibate life. In other words, I've renounced marriage, right. So I'm not looking after an immediate personal family, a wife and children. I've given up my sacred right to decide my own future. So I've given my will into the hands of my superiors, as flawed as they may be. I've got no money, because as Franciscans, we make a vow of poverty.