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Join Fr. Innocent, Fr. Angelus, Fr. Pierre Toussaint, and Fr. Mark-Mary, priests of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, each week to discuss authentic faith in today's world as they share stories and wisdom from years of prayer, community life, and work with the poor. It all comes back to this: finding deep friendship with Jesus. Seeing him work in our lives everyday. Through topics as varied as mental health, the confessional, and NYC neighbors, the Poco A Poco Podcast is here to accompan ...
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Our goal is to provide timely multi-media news reporting that highlights U.N. activity in the area of Human Rights as they relate to Catholic Social Teaching. The mainstream media doesn't always give the complete story. Using the technology of the Internet we bring you the "Good" stories in their entirety.
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How do I hear and know God's Voice? God desires to break into our lives and speak with us—to communicate with us. But most of the time, what that looks like can be quite unclear. That is why it's important that we are able to discern how God speaks. In this episode, we're gonna look at some practical ways to hear and know the voice of God and see h…
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How can we bring our feelings to the Lord? Once we have a sense of what we are feeling and why we are feeling that way, this would be the next step that we're invited to do—to turn to Jesus in prayer in great faith and trust then relate and bring these feelings to him and let him respond to it. In this episode, we'll talk about how we can relate ou…
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Why do we feel a certain way? This would be a great question to ask ourselves once we identify and name what we feel. It's good to learn what's ultimately at stake in every emotion, test, or situation we encounter and understand why it's so important to us. This episode talks about some practical examples and applications of how we can dive deeper …
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How do you feel? And why do emotions matter? Valuing the emotional life as important, they are an intrinsic part of us. Emotions are neutral in nature but how we respond to them can be both fruitful and dangerous, this is why knowing how to navigate them is vital in our human life. In this episode, we'll talk about the importance of emotions, the r…
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How much do you know about yourself? This might be a good starting point to ask ourselves in our interior life pilgrimage. From self-protection to self-acceptance, to self-possession, and ultimately to self-gift, it's a journey to know oneself. And the beauty of being in prayer with the Lord is that we're growing in self-knowledge and self-acceptan…
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What do you do when God comes to you in mystery? If we are willing to search for God in the mysteries of suffering, the ordinary, and the sacraments, hidden somewhere in there, we can find medicines. God uses these mysteries to communicate medicines, for our transformation, our holiness, the things we most deeply need to grow, change, heal, and bec…
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The first friars, having arrived in Dover on 10 September 1224 went on to establish themselves in Canterbury, London, and Oxford, thus bring a Franciscan presence to the religious, political, and educational centers of England. The Franciscan family will mark the 800th anniversary of the first Franciscans arriving in England with events in all four…
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The first friars, having arrived in Dover on 10 September 1224 went on to establish themselves in Canterbury, London, and Oxford, thus bring a Franciscan presence to the religious, political, and educational centers of England. The Franciscan family will mark the 800th anniversary of the first Franciscans arriving in England with events in all four…
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The first friars, having arrived in Dover on 10 September 1224 went on to establish themselves in Canterbury, London, and Oxford, thus bring a Franciscan presence to the religious, political, and educational centers of England. The Franciscan family will mark the 800th anniversary of the first Franciscans arriving in England with events in all four…
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The first friars, having arrived in Dover on 10 September 1224 went on to establish themselves in Canterbury, London, and Oxford, thus bring a Franciscan presence to the religious, political, and educational centers of England. The Franciscan family will mark the 800th anniversary of the first Franciscans arriving in England with events in all four…
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The first friars, having arrived in Dover on 10 September 1224 went on to establish themselves in Canterbury, London, and Oxford, thus bring a Franciscan presence to the religious, political, and educational centers of England. The Franciscan family will mark the 800th anniversary of the first Franciscans arriving in England with events in all four…
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The first friars, having arrived in Dover on 10 September 1224 went on to establish themselves in Canterbury, London, and Oxford, thus bring a Franciscan presence to the religious, political, and educational centers of England. The Franciscan family will mark the 800th anniversary of the first Franciscans arriving in England with events in all four…
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The first friars, having arrived in Dover on 10 September 1224 went on to establish themselves in Canterbury, London, and Oxford, thus bring a Franciscan presence to the religious, political, and educational centers of England. The Franciscan family will mark the 800th anniversary of the first Franciscans arriving in England with events in all four…
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Series on "Mysteries & Medicine" by Fr. Isaiah, CFR (Part 4) Are you able to see the goodness of God? We are invited to trust and surrender that God is good and is always with us, to be rooted in the truth that God is Father, that He knows us, that He is good, and that He loves us. This is the fourth and last episode on the Mysteries & Medicine alb…
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Series on "Mysteries & Medicine" by Fr. Isaiah, CFR (Part 3) Have you experienced being confined in self-centeredness? Sometimes we can have a pretty self-focused approach to our lives where it's all about what we need or what we want. But the invitation for us in this Exodus is to always move towards someone else, towards relationship, towards God…
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Series on "Mysteries & Medicine" by Fr. Isaiah, CFR (Part 2) What do you desire and how do you respond to it? One reality of our humanity is that we can forever be dissatisfied and expect a different answer to our desires. But we are invited to let this desire, this hunger, become a pathway that brings the Lord closer to us, to offer Him the desire…
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Series on "Mysteries & Medicine" by Fr. Isaiah, CFR (Part 1) Would you agree that life is a journey or a pilgrimage? The journey to say yes to what God wants for our life, it's not just this thing that happens like a contract and we say, "Yes,", it's a journey. The holiness, the sanctification, the healing, it takes time. The pilgrimage of life is …
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We have to understand that we are going through different journeys. God is doing something completely different in each of our lives and we have to be attentive to that. Let us not be so quick to judge—everything is not as simple as it may seem. As we continue our journeys through life, we will constantly encounter our own and other people's strugg…
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We have to understand that we are going through different journeys. God is doing something completely different in each of our lives and we have to be attentive to that. Let us not be so quick to judge—everything is not as simple as it may seem. As we continue our journeys through life, we will constantly encounter our own and other people's strugg…
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Have you ever felt rejected by God or the church, as you try to get into religious life? This can be an utterly heartbreaking experience. When faced with "No" as a response to the desire to get into religious life, one might feel that they are being rejected by God or the church, that they're undesirable, or too broken for religious life. But in re…
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