Sunday, September 22 , brother Frédéric Lavoie of the Eastern Canadian Province made ​​vows in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in the presence of the brothers, family and many friends.  

The following an excerpt from the homily delivered by his provincial minister, Louis Cinq-Mars, and a few pictures .

 

"Religious life is a Christian way of life, a way in which God is the center and all! It's a different way of life other vocations, and has its own requirements including the plowing your own inner world. It is a different way to live the basic human vocation to which we are all called: choose life and be fruitful.

At the heart of the religious life there is an encounter with God and a call to build our lives from this intimate and romantic encounter. The radical demand of this call is to enter into the moment and never look back. "Do you remember anything of you, wrote St. Francis, that you receive all the integers which gives you the whole."

In Canada there are currently more than 16,000 religious and the average age is  over 78 years. Despite the decline and aging, religious life retains its strength and its meaning: it is a reminder that a happy, full and fruitful life can be built from an intimate relationship with God and in reality no life can not be happy without a full and fruitful relationship with God, our source.

In a society that says that happiness lies in personal success at any price or performance, the vowed religious announces through there life that happiness is actually in the gift of self, passing from egocentric to welcoming and serve our brothers and sisters. "