About 10 years ago, during a college Christmas break, I spent a couple of days with a group of classmates at a Franciscan community of priests and brothers in the South Bronx. One night, we packed a van with sandwiches and a tank of hot chocolate and a friar named Brother Giuseppe drove us down to Lower Manhattan. We parked and unloaded at a street corner where the Franciscans spend time with the homeless all year round.
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Written by Michael Jordan Laskey, for U.S. Catholic. Mike is director of Life & Justice Ministries at the Diocese of Camden.