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 Our Holy Father the Pope at the Vatican.
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