Saint Bridget Friary is pleased to announce that Corey Smoot has been accepted as an Aspirant to our community.� He will move to Saint Bridget�s in January and will be working full-time as we continue to discern his calling to our way of life.� Corey is 38 years old and hails from Portland, OR.� Corey will visit the friary again in November to follow-up on job opportunities in the Twin Cities.

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Bro. David gave a talk to an adult vocation support group at Saint Jude of the Lake parish entitled: Vocation as Response, Gift, and Challenge.� Coincidently, he gave a second talk that same week to the Saint Croix Valley Serra club which happened to meet in September at Saint Jude�s Church.� The title of that talk was: Structures of Franciscan Life and the Vocation of the Religious Brother.

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