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Over the holidays, volunteers from Issac M. Wise Temple in Amberley Village helped make the season bright for the people of Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati. Volunteers from the Temple have been serving Thanksgiving Dinner at the St. Francis Seraph Soup Kitchen for the past five years.
In 2011, they took on a bigger role. For the second year in a row, volunteers purchased the food, took care of set up, cooked the dinner, served the dinner and cleaned up after approximately 250 of our neighbors in need had a wonderful Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
“The only thing I have to do that day is unlock the door and lock it back up,” says St. Francis Seraph Soup Kitchen Manager Jim “Bubs” Kindt. “It was great fun for me to be able to stand at the door and greet the guests.”
Our friends at Issac M. Wise have already committed to doing it all again in 2012. Thank you, our Everyday Hheroes at Issac M. Wise Temple.
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Welcome
I feel very blessed to be serving as the Co-director of the Friar Works Office since August of 2011. It has been a very positive experience, especially meeting and talking with so many of our longtime friends and benefactors. The staff of the Friar Works Office has welcomed me and made me feel very much at home. They are a loyal and dedicated staff and work well together.
I moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, seven months ago after serving at a Franciscan parish in Galveston, Texas, for 11 years. Although I still miss the good people of Galveston, I enjoy being back in my hometown. 2011 was my first opportunity to celebrate the holidays with my family in a long time. I have especially enjoyed getting to know my 28 great nieces and nephews. Their ages range from 22 to 2 years old. Some were just little kids when I left Cincinnati and others were not yet born.
Please continue to keep us friars and our ministries in your prayers. We promise to pray for you and your intentions daily. It is important that we support each other in prayer.
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The Dream lives
Growing up as an only child in Gallup, N.M., Fr. Murray Bodo, OFM, was always performing improvised skits for whoever would watch. It was not until he was in high school that he discovered poetry as a creative outlet.
Following ordination on June 5, 1964, he continued his studies, then went on to teach at St. Francis Seminary and Duns Scotus College. He served as Spiritual Director and did a lot of research and writing as well.
In 1972 Murray, a teacher and an up-and-coming poet, went to Italy on a mission to write a book about St. Francis. He produced a slim paperback of prose that defined his future and continues to inspire readers around the world in ways he could never have imagined. That book was Francis: The Journey and the Dream.
Murray’s work far surpassed the expectations of its author and its publisher (St. Anthony Messenger Press, now Franciscan Media). More than 200,000 copies have been sold in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Maltese, Portuguese, Slovenian and Korean. Asked if he ever tires of talking about it, like a rock star who’s always singing his greatest hit, Fr. Murray shakes his head no. “It always gives me an opportunity to talk about Francis, who along with Jesus is one of the passions of my life.”
Forty years, dozens of books and hundreds of poems later, the work that is still most celebrated, most closely associated with its author, is The Journey and the Dream, now available in an anniversary hardback edition. Facing his 75th birthday in June, “It is like I did the book of my life at 35 years old,” Murray says. “Everything I have written since, its seed, its germ, are in that book. I smile at myself and wonder if I should have stopped there.”
Fortunately for us, he did not.
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