Trust Is Hard for Everyone (2021)

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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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 53 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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Trust is hard for everybody. The grace to trust—especially for the long haul—is always given to us by the Lord. There’s always human effort in the spiritual life, but it’s all gift; all grace.

It can feel like we’re never going to be able to trust; that we’re so “bad” at trusting, particularly in the beginning, that we’re just never going to be able to let go, no matter how badly we long to do exactly that. We think to ourselves, “I’m powerless.” But here’s the thing: he is not.

There is someone looking back at us at every moment of the day. And through concrete experiences, sometimes very little ones, he invites us to trust. We’ve got to lean into those little moments of trust.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Rob from Spirit Juice.
0:02.1	The friars are taking a meaningful break to embrace the rest and joy of this Jubilee year.
0:07.3	While they're away, please enjoy listening or reliciting to this previously recorded episode
0:12.7	and join me and continue to pray for Father Mark Mary, Father Innocent, Father Angelus,
0:19.6	and our favorite, Father P.T.
0:21.8	As they follow God's will and heed the call of the Jubilee.
0:25.8	Thank you for being a supporter of the Poco Poco Pocco podcast.
0:28.4	We could not do it without your help. God bless.
0:33.2	You're listening to the Poco A Poco podcast, sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios. Poco a poco, we're going to get, we're going to the Poca-a-Poko podcast, sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios.
0:42.0	Hey, everybody.
0:45.1	I'm Father Mark Mary's Poco-Pocop podcast.
0:47.4	And I'm Father Innocent.
0:48.5	Father Angel is here.
0:49.8	I'm Brother Angelo and New.
0:51.7	And welcome.
0:53.0	Brother Angelo, welcome.
1:44.8	Brother Angelo is visiting. And welcome. Brother Angelo, welcome. Brother Angelo is visiting us from England. Bradford. Big City, beautiful Bradford. St. Pio Friary. That's right. For the Vocation Summit. How'd that go? Go team. Wow. Unbelievable. Great. Thanks, Father Angelus. We had a great time. Tell us about the summit. It's kind of like a summit. It sounds very important. Conventions are out, summits are in. But once you're the vocation team gets together. Brother Angela comes from Europe. Brother Diego comes from Central America. And then me and Father Gabriel Manuel. Yeah, it's just great to get together. We have a good team dynamic. We're really working together a lot throughout the year, but once a year it's always good to be in the same place, kind of talk about our work, talk about what God's doing, all the men you're sending us. And so we see some formation, and yeah, it was just good to be together. So thank God. And Brother Angela's here because you're the vocation, the regional vocation director. What do you call it?
1:48.8	That sounds good. Yeah. I think that's, does that sound right? That sounds right. Yeah, totally.
1:56.1	And I have a feeling part of your favorite part of it is just walking with guys. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
2:05.4	Hearing their story, hearing what God's doing. Yeah. So do you remember Brother remember Brother Angelo and I met the day before he moved to New York?
2:06.2	Do you remember that?
2:09.5	Oh, wow, for potulency.
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