When the Capuchin minister general and other friars were lined up in the sanctuary at the start of mass on Nov. 11, OFS Minister General Tibor Kauser took to the podium to welcome Fr. Roberto Genuin, OFM Cap., expressing gratitude for the solidarity and fraternity among friars and Secular Franciscans.
Similarly, Friar Roberto concluded the mass by noting that he was comforted by the OFS, especially with its diversity.
“You shine,” he said, with the glory and “light of the Lord.”
In his homily, Friar Roberto said that people thirst for God, and that Franciscans of all stripes, with “our smallness,” can help them.
It’s good, he said, to walk with and respond to the Lord.