Realities Not Fantasies (2023)

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

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Christianity, Christian, Pilgrimage, Catholic, Franciscan, Spirituality, Faith, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 52 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.

We think we're most free when we can kind of be in control.

"I'm free when I get to get up every day and just have control over my life and my circumstances."

That's not a Catholic freedom according to Jacque Philippe, but it is actually being able to accept reality as it is.

We struggle with freedom because it's hard to accept our weakness. It's quite difficult to accept our sinfulness—it's hard to accept these different parts of our lives. But if we don't accept ourselves, our realities, we either live in memories or fantasies where Jesus can't reach us.

This episode is the second part of our series on Interior Freedom by Fr. Jacque Philippe that talks about and the importance of acceptance towards being truly free.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Rob from Spirit Juice.
0:02.0	And as Father Mark Mary mentioned, the friars will be taking a little bit of a meaningful break to embrace and rest on this joyful Jubilee year.
0:11.0	While they're away, I encourage you to listen or re-listen to this previously recorded episode and join me as we continue to pray for our favorite, Father Innocent, my favorite, Father P.T.,
0:24.4	Father Angelus, and I guess we could pray for Father Mark Mary too. That should be fine.
0:30.0	As it continue to follow God's will and heed the call of this Jubilee year.
0:34.2	Thank you again for being a continued supporter of the PocoPoko Podcast.
0:44.4	You're listening to the Pocoa Poco Podcast, sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios.
0:52.4	Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary. I'm Father Angelus. Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary. Little by little we learn a little.
0:52.2	I'm Father Angelus. Hey, I'm Father Innes. Everybody. This is the Poca Poca Poca podcast. It sure is. Welcome back. I don't know if I always say this is the Poca Poca Poca Poca podcast or not. But it is the Poca Poca Poca podcast... That it is. I think this episode's coming out in February.
1:12.1	So welcome to February, everybody.
1:14.9	Shortest month.
1:15.6	Hope you enjoy it.
1:17.7	The, um, what was I thinking?
1:20.4	What are you thinking?
1:22.4	I was just thinking about, we recently had what's called a visitation.
1:26.8	Which is when the General Superior comes and visits a a friary and kind of like that's it was kind of stressful i mean i was living in freedom for sure you were just going to say it was kind of stressful and full of anxiety but it's it's i feel as like a servant and a which which is the superior of the house and also formated.
1:44.7	You're kind of exposed. I feel like I felt vulnerable.
1:48.3	It's, you know, everything's like kind of on the hot seat.
1:51.8	Brothers get to tell the general servant how much they love or do not love you.
1:58.2	I definitely got some time to talk to the servant about my issues here.
2:02.4	And so it's something that happens.
2:03.9	It gets it's supposed to happen twice every six years, so generally, more or less, every three
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