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Join Fr. Innocent, Fr. Angelus, Fr. Pierre Toussaint, and Fr. Mark-Mary, priests of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, each week to discuss authentic faith in today's world as they share stories and wisdom from years of prayer, community life, and work with the poor.

It all comes back to this: finding deep friendship with Jesus. Seeing him work in our lives everyday. Through topics as varied as mental health, the confessional, and NYC neighbors, the Poco A Poco Podcast is here to accompany all pilgrims as they walk step by step, little by little, poco a poco on their pilgrimage to the Father's house.

The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal are a Catholic religious order founded in the South Bronx, NY. Learn more or subscribe to their updates at www.franciscanfriars.com

The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

    • Religion & Spirituality
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Join Fr. Innocent, Fr. Angelus, Fr. Pierre Toussaint, and Fr. Mark-Mary, priests of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, each week to discuss authentic faith in today's world as they share stories and wisdom from years of prayer, community life, and work with the poor.

It all comes back to this: finding deep friendship with Jesus. Seeing him work in our lives everyday. Through topics as varied as mental health, the confessional, and NYC neighbors, the Poco A Poco Podcast is here to accompany all pilgrims as they walk step by step, little by little, poco a poco on their pilgrimage to the Father's house.

The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal are a Catholic religious order founded in the South Bronx, NY. Learn more or subscribe to their updates at www.franciscanfriars.com

    Holy Week and Total Gift (Lent 2024)

    Holy Week and Total Gift (Lent 2024)

    Series on The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups (Part 7)
    This holy week, how do you intend to receive Jesus' total gift for you?
    The fast during Lent is not to show Jesus how tough we are, it's to show him how poor we are. It's to be in the space of utter poverty and to trust that receptivity, that He will come.
    And what we are celebrating in this holy Triduum, this Holy Week, is Christ, giving himself to us as the bridegroom and espousing himself to us, His bride. We are celebrating Jesus' love and total gift of self that is given to each of us in his passion.
    This episode is all about receptivity. As we go through this last week of Lent, we continue to dive into how Jesus is the bridegroom to us and talk about being open to receiving Jesus' love and His total gift.
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    • 49 min
    The Rich Man and Lazarus (Lent 2024)

    The Rich Man and Lazarus (Lent 2024)

    Series on The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups (Part 5)
    Does it have to end in just being able to receive God's unconditional love?
    Like Lazarus, the guy beat up on the side of the road. We who have been loved in such messiness are also invited to go into the mess, and love. This is a sign that God is alive in us.
    We now have the dignity of His beloved sons and daughters, of not just being the recipients of His unconditional love, but now being able to love, not only from our own strength but in response to God being alive in us.
    In this episode, we'll talk about the story of the rich man and Lazarus, and its relation to the other parables discussed in the previous episodes.
    The Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
    You can get a copy of The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups from the link below:
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    • 52 min
    Resurrection and the Reproaches (Lent 2024)

    Resurrection and the Reproaches (Lent 2024)

    Series on The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups (Part 6)
    Our expectations and what God is doing can be totally different, so how should we respond to that?
    In the raising of Lazarus, the response of the Pharisees was to have Jesus killed. This was the tragic response of the heart when they were not open and unable to receive the mysterious and unconditional love of God.
    We can sometimes share the same humanity as the Pharisees too. We sometimes prefer to have Jesus out of our lives completely because of the changes, experiences, and difficult things that are happening in our lives that weren't what we expected them to be.
    We want it to be a certain way but then it's not that way.
    But despite all that, we are invited to stay in relationship with Jesus through any difficulty, change, or experience. In this episode we're gonna do a recap on the raising of Lazarus and dive into its mysterious reality and our response to that.
    The Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
    You can get a copy of The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups from the link below:
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    🛒 You can also grab your Poco a Poco Merchandise at pocomerch.com!

    • 54 min
    The Prodigal Son (Lent 2024)

    The Prodigal Son (Lent 2024)

    Series on The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups (Part 4)
    If you were the prodigal son would you receive the Father's unconditional love?
    The conversion that the Father wants us to have is to move on from a conditional, perfectionistic way of experiencing God to a place of just being unconditionally loved by Him.
    But we can sometimes hold onto shame for security, what is asked of us is to leave behind that shame—let the shame and self-contempt crumble.
    We don't need to "pay rent" to be loved by the heavenly Father. Our sonship/daughterhip is not to be paid but is freely given to us. The invitation for all of us is to remain in the forgiveness and mercy of the Father. Let the relationship we have with Him restore and heal us from the place of shame and insecurity that we put ourselves into.
    The Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
    You can get a copy of The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups from the link below:
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    🛒 You can also grab your Poco a Poco Merchandise at pocomerch.com!

    • 56 min
    The Good Samaritan (Lent 2024)

    The Good Samaritan (Lent 2024)

    Series on The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups (Part 3)
    Are you familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan?
    When we're beat up, when we're in this place of difficulty and shame, He's there, at the side of the road looking at us, desiring to pick us up and saying, "Come with me.". That's Jesus for all of us.
    The invitation of this episode is to allow the Lord to get close into our deepest places of darkness and shame so he can help us and love us there. Jesus actually comes into our messiness and He loves us unconditionally.
    This Lent, let Jesus unconditionally love you, and let the healing begin.
    The Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
    You can get a copy of The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups from the link below:
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    🛒 You can also grab your Poco a Poco Merchandise at pocomerch.com!

    • 59 min
    Christ the Bridegroom (Lent 2024)

    Christ the Bridegroom (Lent 2024)

    Series on The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups (Part 2)
    How does a bridegroom love his bride?
    That is how Jesus loves each one of us. He meets us wherever we are in our life to be our beloved and for us to be His. The Lord meets us in the desert-our place of poverty where He betroths us to Him and He betroths Himself to us.
    In this way, Jesus as the bridegroom reveals to us a quality of love, the way that God loves.
    In this episode, our aim is for us to better understand what it means to have Jesus as the bridegroom and the desert as the place of betrothal. 
    The Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
    You can get a copy of The Ascension Lenten Companion by Fr. Mark Toups from the link below:
    https://ascensionpress.com/collections/the-ascension-lenten-companion
    🛒 You can also grab your Poco a Poco Merchandise at pocomerch.com!

    • 46 min

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