Franciscan Lent
The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Episode 270 - Franciscan Lent
After a season of Jubilee rest, the friars return with fresh hearts and a new invitation: to enter the "Franciscan Lent", a hidden season of simplicity, detachment, and joyful expectation. Drawing from the life of St. Francis and the Beatitudes, they explore what it really means to become small, to depend completely on God, and to let Him provide what we cannot.
This episode isn't about doing more, it's about letting go, trusting deeply, and rediscovering the joy that comes from poverty of spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Poca-a-Poko podcast, sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios. |
| 0:10.9 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:14.5 | This is the Poca-Poko-Pocopo podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Father McMerry. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Father Pt. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Father Innocent. Yeah, it is the Poco-Poko podcast. Or English Father Pt. I'm Father Pt. I'm Father |
| 0:20.9 | Innocent. Yeah, it is the Poco Poco Poco podcast. We're back. So we are finally back. |
| 0:29.0 | Some people missed us, which is nice to know. That's nice to know. Father Pt, did you miss me? |
| 0:34.1 | That's what I'm going to know. I was going to ask Father Mark Mary if you missed us. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. I didn't see you guys, I haven't seen you guys a lot at all. Yeah. Thanks for showing your face that you care about us. We took a break from each other. It was Jubilee. Jubilee year, take a break. To be clear, that wasn't part of why it wasn't a break. |
| 0:56.8 | So we could not have to spend time with each other? |
| 1:02.9 | So we're back and we'll talk about what we're up to. |
| 1:13.7 | I think to get like the first matter business is so as of right now, well, okay, so we're definitely, we're not recording in the same room anymore that's a bummer is it well i mean hey listen i guess it makes it work this is this is working |
| 1:23.8 | because we are able to do this remotely now. |
| 1:32.2 | So, but you're the, I'm Father Innocent, you're the big reason we're not all in the same room together. Wow. Just throwing it out there. That's true. That's just me like moving. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. Yeah. Me moving like out of the city. That's a, yeah, I guess that's a pretty big reason. |
| 1:43.4 | Yeah. Yeah yeah it's not |
| 1:45.6 | like you just move not that there's like anything i'm not you just made it sound like yeah |
| 1:51.5 | you didn't want to be together anymore it's the big reason why this is going on well father |
| 1:55.8 | anison moved his new he now lives two hours away from everybody else and he didn't want to drive in i mean everybody else, and he didn't want to drive in. |
| 2:03.0 | I mean, it's not like I didn't want to drive in. It just kind of got complicated. |
| 2:07.1 | No, I know. We wouldn't have asked you to do that. |
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