The Blessed Mother
The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
5.0 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 278 - The Blessed Mother
Have you ever struggled to believe that God could really work through your weakness?
In this episode, the friars turn their gaze to the Blessed Mother and the quiet, radical way she lived the Beatitudes. They reflect on Mary's poverty of spirit, her meekness, and her total availability to God, not as something distant or unattainable, but as a lived posture of trust, openness, and surrender.
They explore how Mary's emptiness became the space where God did His greatest work, how her confidence came from knowing who she was before the Father, and how her motherhood continues to draw close to us in our own poverty and need.
Join us as we entrust ourselves again to our Mother and learn how her "yes" teaches us how to receive God more fully in our own lives.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Poca-A-Poko podcast, sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios. |
| 0:10.9 | What's up, everybody? Father Innocent here, and I just wanted to pause and say thank you |
| 0:16.9 | for all who make Poca-a-Poko-Pocopo podcast possible through your prayers and your generosity. Every episode we share, every person to reach, it's because of you. If you feel moved to join our mission as a monthly supporter or increase your gift, we'd be so grateful. Your support helps us lead more souls to encounter Christ little by little. You can give at spiritjuice.org or through the link in the show notes. |
| 0:37.9 | Thank you for being part of our mission. God bless you all. Hey, everybody. I'm Father Mark |
| 0:43.4 | Mary. What's going on on Father PT? What's up, everyone? Father Edius here. |
| 0:50.6 | Father Innocent is not with us at the moment. Boo that man. |
| 0:56.6 | It's pretty, which is pretty rare, you know. |
| 0:59.1 | It is pretty rare, but it is understandable. |
| 1:02.7 | We have, you know, I think that you do this for a little bit and you start to get hit a groove, but you want to keep, you want to, you want to stay fresh, you know. |
| 1:12.8 | So we have decided to just add a number of elements before we jump on the podcast to really challenge ourselves. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah. And we try our best to get ourselves as annoyed and frustrated and angry with technology as possible. |
| 1:29.9 | And then we immediately press record. |
| 1:34.5 | And here we are. |
| 1:35.8 | Just the realist and the rawest we can show up, right? |
| 1:38.3 | That's it. |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:39.8 | We really want this thing to be authentic. |
| 1:41.7 | Can we just acknowledge that it's usually PT's technology that it doesn't work. |
| 1:45.2 | I'll own that and it's usually like a simple thing of, oh, I'm using the wrong browser. |
| 1:50.1 | Oh, this is in the wrong input. |
| 1:53.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:55.4 | So it's, you know what I mean? |
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