Retired larrikin priest, Father Bob Maguire, has dedicated his life to helping society's most vulnerable, often the poor and homeless. When he retired as a priest he started the Father Bob Maguire Foundation to continue helping those in need. Father Bob sat down with Anh to talk about his life, his work, and what he believes to be the key to happiness. #ABWF

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By that time, I had a thing called the Father Bob Maguire Foundation designed to do work on the streets and work with poor people, so eventually I was left not with a parish precinct, see? And daily mass and all that kind of stuff. I was left having to create this unfinished symphony.

Yeah.

Find the... the lost chord.

You found another way to help.

Had to! That's why I wake up in the morning. Yeah.

That's wonderful, Father Bob.
Well, I... but I would have thought it was...That's our calling as human beings.
I love when you talk about helping people, you light up, Father Bob.

Oh, I...

You love helping people.

Yeah.

Because, you see, that's the future. You see, you don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

If you look at your life as a whole, would you say you've lived a good life?

Well, it was all I had. Yeah. That's... You've got to make the best of what you've got, comrade.
You've got ingredients. There's the bloody bowl, put the ingredients in the bowl. You can't go next door for a bowl of sugar from Mrs Bloggs. So you'll have to make a cake without sugar. But it'll be edible, and that's the best that you can do.

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