Episode #10 - Brothers to Us All

WHAT IS A RELIGIOUS BROTHER? As we highlight Religious Brothers’ Day which is celebrated in May of each year, Brother Tom Osorio from the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God relates his experience of the vocation to religious brotherhood. In conversation with Sr. Carolyn from the Little Sisters of the Poor, Brother Tom describes the sacred space where the religious Brother and those whom he serves both enter into an encounter with God. In living the vowed life of a religious (and particularly the vow of hospitality which Brother Tom’s and Sr. Carolyn’s communities both share), Brother Tom speaks of the movement from “doing” to “being” to “embracing”.

Among the many different ministries in which various communities of Brothers labor in the Church, Brother Tom’s religious family brings Jesus’ healing wherever there is a need—from the care of the weakest and most forgotten to serving as Brother nurses for the Pope at the Vatican.

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