Meekness: The Manger and the Storm

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

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Episode 277 - Meekness: The Manger and the Storm

Have you ever felt frustrated when Jesus seems quiet while everything around you is falling apart?

In this episode, the friars continue reflecting on "Blessed are the meek," turning to two striking images: Jesus asleep in the manger and Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm. Both reveal a confidence rooted not in control, but in trust. Trust in the Father, trust in victory, even when chaos is loud and fear feels close.

They talk honestly about the frustration we feel when Jesus seems distant or inactive while we're struggling. And they invite us to see that His silence isn't absence, it's the patience of love at work.

Join us as we learn to trust Jesus in the storm and discover the peace that comes from knowing He is already with us.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Poca-A-Poko podcast, sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios.
0:11.0	Peace, everybody, Father Angelus here. I just want to say thank you for all of you who support
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0:37.4	notes. Thank you for walking with us.org, forward slash poco, poco, or through the link in the show notes.
0:38.0	Thank you for walking with us.
0:40.2	Hey,
0:40.5	everybody.
0:41.9	This is Father Mark,
0:43.2	Mary.
0:44.0	What was that?
0:44.8	Hang on,
0:45.0	it's Father Ptze.
0:46.0	Hey.
0:47.6	This is Father innocent.
0:49.3	Peace, friends.
0:50.3	Father Angelus.
0:51.8	Do you guys know the concept of rage bait?
1:31.2	Rage. Never heard of it. You post something so that way you can get a reaction, right? I think you can do it in real life. Real life too. Okay. Are you going to do something like that? Are you going to do something? I just did that to follow PT before we turn this, the microphone. Oh, that's what that's called. Okay. Which was why I did the other thing. When you just, you know, you can say something that someone's going to have a strong reaction to. That's kind of the idea. It had to do with baseball. When you're meek, you don't have strong reactions, you know, you just kind of live it. Whoa. I don't know if that's actually true. I don't know. As soon as I said it out loud, I'm like, that's not supposed to be in true. Say that to Jesus in the temple. Ooh. No. Slip his tables over. Kicking out sheep and money changers. I hope he does that to your heart, bro. That's the most important thing, you know what I mean? Flip over the money changes in my heart. Come on. You were talking to Father PT? I was just Father P.T. Oh, nice. Wait, what you said? I was talking to me. I was talking about how Jesus needs to flip over your money changes in P.T.'s heart. Let's be very clear. Yeah. I'm open to that. I need it to. All the ducats that are being changed in my heart. Get out. All the ducats. Hey, you said we're going to talk about the cruise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So check this out. I went to the good, I went to the good news conference. Okay. Which is. What's the good news conference? Tell me. Okay. All right. So the good news, the cruise that we got invited to one all right so the good news conference tell me okay all right so the good news
2:18.7	the cruise that we got invited to one time is called the good news cruise okay and then they
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