Hello and welcome everybody. This is Father Mark Mary with the Francis Skin Friars The

Renewal and you are listening to the Poco, a Poco podcast. This is the new podcast of the

Francis Skin Friars The Renewal and this is going to be different than our episodes coming

down. We have been working on this podcast and recording episodes for literally months and

typically it's going to be myself, Father Mark Mary, with Father Innocent and Father

Angelus Montgomery but like the rest of the world we are smack dab in the middle of the

Corona virus pandemic and we're currently recording from the South Bronx New York which is New

York City. It's been paying attention to it. It's a bit of the epicenter of the coronavirus

COVID-19 pandemic for New York and so we are in quarantine here in the Bronx and Father Angelus

and Father Innocent both live in Harlem and they're in quarantine with the brothers over there

in Harlem at St. Joseph's Friary and actually yesterday I had the in the last whatever 10 days the

very first time for me to go outside at all. We live in the Bronx. We have like a like a

compound or a block we call it with two Friaries homeless shelter. So it's a decent amount of space

and so you can go outside being a courtyard. You can go on the roof of one of the buildings. You

can get a little bit of fresh air but just yesterday at the very first time again in about

a week and a half going out and it was myself and Father PT one of the other Friar Priests I live with

and we receive a food donation still in the South Bronx that basically gives fruits and vegetables

for the week for the Friaries in our little New York region. So we obein a promise of being all

social distancing coronavirus protocol as we know it and we're pretty darn good at it. We get a

lot of announcements about it. We took some of the the first and vegetables a few boxes because

there's like 15 guys living in the in Harlem. Two the first and vegetables took it took it in a van

over to Harlem. Ring the doorbell we were putting the boxes out and they were at the front door. We

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