Blessed Are The Poor (2023)
The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
As Fr. Mark-Mary mentioned, the friars will be taking a meaningful break to embrace the rest and the joy of the Jubilee Year. While they are away, please enjoy listening (or re-listening) to this previously released episode, and join us in continuing to pray for Fr. Mark-Mary, Fr. Innocent, Fr. Angelus, and Fr. PT as they follow God's will and heed the call of the Jubilee.
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What makes us most free, is this submitting to God and this dependence on Him.
Yes, freedom is actually dependent on obedience rather than kind of doing whatever I want.
When we fall in love with God and we experience that love, this deep interior freedom takes place and it becomes the most important thing of our lives—even to a point that is greater than our circumstances.
This episode is the first part of our series on Interior Freedom by Fr. Jacque Philippe that talks about what it means to live in freedom as sons and daughters of God and how this freedom can become greater than the circumstances of our lives.The first of the nine beatitudes of Matthew said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
The world is constantly trying to define us—it tries to tell us who we are. Our successes, belongings, talents, people in our lives, our jobs, culture and technology, all these things tends make us who we are. We beclothed ourselves with these things and we are tempted to find our identity in them.
But again, "Who Is God and Who Am I?". To understand what it means to be truly free and live in freedom as sons and daughters of God, we have to keep this question before us.
We have to let go of other worldly things and not be afraid of staying in the place of spiritual poverty before the Lord.
This episode is the fourth and last part of our series on Interior Freedom by Fr. Jacque Philippe that talks about freedom in spiritual poverty. An invitation for us to remain in this place of poverty and let God define us, give us everything and ultimately lead us to the kingdom of heaven.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Rob at Spirit Juice. And as you know, the friars are taking a little bit of a meaningful |
| 0:04.9 | break to enjoy this Jubilee year. While they're away, please enjoy listening or re-listening to this |
| 0:11.6 | previously recorded episode and join me as we continue to pray for Father Mark Mary, Father |
| 0:17.2 | Anderson, Father Angelus, and all of our favorites, Father P.T. |
| 0:22.3 | As they follow God's will and heed the call of the Jubilee. |
| 0:26.1 | Thank you for being a supporter of the Poco Poco Pocco podcast. God bless. |
| 0:31.7 | You're listening to the Poco A Poco podcast, sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios. |
| 0:36.8 | Poco a poco, we're going to get. Som're going to be a way. Hey, everybody. I'm Father Mark Mary. Welcome back, P.T. Welcome back. Myself. I'm Father P.T. I'm Father Innocent. Hey, everyone. I am Father Angelus. It's good to be with you. |
| 0:56.2 | It's great to have you back, Father Pee. It's good to be back. It's going to be back. How many episodes has it been? Like 75, I think. I counted. No, it's been a while. It's been a minute. Some would say a hot minute. Do we need to just chat about your commitment to this endeavor? |
| 1:13.6 | I'm here. |
| 1:14.8 | Thank you. Some would say a hot minute, but... Do we need to just chat about your commitment to this endeavor? I'm here. Thanks for showing up to seek, but not really helping out. Wait, who showed up to seek and who did it? I just said thanks showing up. That was just a real honest affirmation. Father Marks are giving and I have to love. No, I am not. |
| 1:27.9 | I'm not. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm not. |
| 1:29.2 | As the listeners who have been following along, no, we seek happened at the beginning |
| 1:34.3 | of January, so it's a little bit ago. |
| 1:36.7 | And we were there to do a podcast, and we can talk about a number of things about it. |
| 1:42.0 | But the, I, well, one one of that we'll just talk about |
| 1:45.2 | father pt father pt came out just for the podcast yeah and i had uh just had some issues going on |
| 1:51.7 | i was sick the whole time so apologies first of all i met you during seek and it's like a very |
| 1:55.8 | just bad interaction with me i was i was in it it's the normal you get to you get to experience on the day-to-day what brothers get to experience. No, but my apologies if I didn't anyway, if I wasn't present, I was just just in it. And you were it was rough, right? You were Yeah, basically I think I only made it twice to the conference center and it just wasn't good when I was there. And so I just spent most of my time in a hotel room during Seek for like two or three days. And so I felt really bad because the only reason I was out there is to do the podcast and to talk to people. Did neither. Yeah, it was funny. What was the joke you made before this? You were sick like Jordan. Oh yeah. I was sick like Michael Michael Jordan I had like a stomach stomach thing going on inside but Jordan made into the game |
| 2:37.0 | but here's the thing we were there because it was like whatever day it was it was like the second or |
| 2:41.4 | third day of the conference and father PT was there and he was he was ready to do his Jordan and like |
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