Article: Into the Friar [great punchline]
Into the Friar | Our Town | Chicago Reader
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/franciscan-friar-profile-cliff-doerksen/Content?oid=2935899
“Actually, I can tell you a funnier story than that,” Welle went on. “I used to volunteer at a place called the Port Ministries in Back of the Yards—they run a soup kitchen, a homeless shelter, a wide range of social services stuff. One day I was walking in my habit at 51st and Ashland—kind of a rougher neighborhood, you know? And a woman with a very small son came up to me and stopped me, saying ‘Hey brother, brother, brother! I just want to thank you for wearing your habit today, because I know that you don’t have to, and our neighborhood is starved for signs of hope. I want my five-year-old son to meet a man who’s living his life for God.’
“And I was just shocked! I stopped and prayed with them for a second, and blessed her son, and it was the sweetest thing that anyone has ever said to me. “So they leave and I’ve got the warm fuzzy butterflies. I keep walking down the street. I don’t take more than ten steps before I run into a teenager who looks at me and goes, ‘Who the fuck are you, Harry Potter?’”
