Ronald Druker says downtown Boston is his “home,” and his longtime neighbor is St. Anthony Shrine.
He’s seen the Shrine’s good works. The religion, the ladies’s clinic, the meals pantry, counseling companies, and respite provided to CEOs to the downtrodden.
“They do so much for people,” he stated of his neighbor. “They have dedicated their life to others.”
He likened them to “first responders” for the soul.
Druker is president of the Druker Company, recognized for the mixed-use developments all through the town, from Heritage on the Garden, The Colonnade Hotel and Residencies on Huntington Avenue and Atelier/505 within the South End, bios declare. He additionally helped discovered the Downtown Crossing Business Improvement District.
He’s lengthy been quietly behind the town’s arts and cultural life scenes, too, and now he’s the recipient of the Shrine’s Pope Francis Award.
The Pope Francis Award is introduced to a person whose lifework “mirrors the charism and mission of St. Francis of Assisi, lover of the poor and the alienated. It honors one who embodies the Franciscan values of humility, compassion, respect and dignity of all people, and lives out the Gospel,” the Shrine states.
Druker joins the fraternity of Boston’s big-hearted donors who assist preserve the doorways open on the Shrine. It’s a gaggle that offers again for what makes this metropolis in contrast to some other round.
The gala is Wednesday evening on the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. For those that can’t attend, the Shrine takes donations by cellphone or on-line.
The friars on the Shrine work within the shadows of all of the skyscrapers.
Br. Paul O’Keeffe runs the counseling middle for {couples}, households or anybody scuffling with relationship or psychological well being points.
There’s extra: the Emmaus Ministry for Grieving Parents, the Father Mychal Judge Recovery Center, Haitian Ministry, Franciscan Spiritual Companionship, the Seniors Program and the Lazarus Ministry — a particular service that gives funerals and burial for the homeless and deserted, “the poorest of the poor.”
It’s an oasis of religion simply off Downtown Crossing. Now, Ronald Druker is a part of that household. But, he says, he’s all the time been a constitution member.
“St. Anthony’s can turn people’s bad news into better news,” he stated. “They work very hard and all are welcome” on this downtown.
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