When One Door Closes...
The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Episode 297 - When One Door Closes...
What do you do when the plan you had suddenly falls apart?
In this episode, the friars reflect on the role of closed doors in discernment, those moments when something we hoped for, planned for, or tried to control simply doesn't happen. A missed flight, a changed plan, a lost opportunity, a relationship that doesn't unfold the way we imagined… sometimes reality interrupts us and invites us to listen more deeply.
Rather than seeing every closed door as failure, the friars explore how these moments can become places of surrender, curiosity, and trust. Not because every disappointment is easy or painless, but because Jesus is present even there. The Resurrection reminds us that no door is more closed than the sealed tomb, and even there, God was not finished.
Join us as we learn to trust Jesus in the detours, the disruptions, and the closed doors, and discover that what feels like an ending may become the place He begins something new.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Father Mark Mayer here. I wanted to pause for just a moment and thank all of you who helped make |
| 0:06.0 | the PocaPocopo podcast possible through listening, through your prayers, through sharing it, through spreading |
| 0:11.1 | the word, and in particular this moment, through your generosity. Every episode we share is the fruit of |
| 0:17.8 | many generous hearts and hands. So thank you, everybody. |
| 0:22.2 | So if you feel moved to perhaps join in the mission, |
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| 0:27.9 | or by becoming a monthly donor, we'd be so grateful. |
| 0:31.5 | You can give at spiritjuice.org forward slash poco opoco |
| 0:34.8 | or through the link in the show notes. |
| 0:37.2 | God bless you all. You're listening to the Pocoa Pocoa Poco forward slash poco opoco or through the link in the show notes god bless y'all |
| 0:38.0 | you're listening to the poco apoco podcast sponsored by spirit juice studios |
| 0:44.2 | poco a poco vamos a yeah so most peregrinos and you know that's who we are we make our way |
| 0:50.6 | welcome everybody this is fun mark mary what's up everybody father innocent here i'm back Welcome, everybody. This is Father Mark Mary. |
| 0:56.6 | What's up, everybody? Father Innocent here. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm back, everybody. And we've got Father Angelus. |
| 1:05.4 | Sort of. We'll see. We'll see how long this last. |
| 1:09.1 | Just going to claim the precious blood of Jesus over everything that we're doing right now. |
| 1:13.2 | My prayer hands up. |
| 1:18.0 | The last five minutes would have been a hot scene in the behind the making of the Poca Poca Poca podcast documentary. |
| 1:20.4 | There was intensity. |
| 1:21.4 | There was conflict. |
| 1:23.4 | There was fear. |
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