Produced, Written and Directed by Gerard Thomas Straub
Co-Produced and Edited by Chad O. Mochrie
Introduction to the Film
Room at the Inn tells the inspirational story of the St. Francis Inn, a soup kitchen located in the Kensington area of Philadelphia, a dark, brooding, depressed area where poverty, pain and drugs thrive. The Inn is operated by a community of Franciscan friars, sisters and lay people dedicated to living a life of service among the poor. Guests entering the Inn are served much more than a meal: they are shown the love and mercy of God. As a way of acknowledging their dignity as human beings and children of God, the poor are seated at tables and served a hot meal.
Because it was filmed in December of 2005 as the community, the guests, and the filmmakers prepared to celebrate the birth of Christ who became poor for us, the film, besides telling the heartwarming story of the Inn, subtly takes on the form of an Advent retreat whose message resounds throughout: the poor, the broken, and the rejected are portals through which we can enter fully into the life of Christ.
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