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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 how we can receive what He speaks to each of us.
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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 our emotions to the Lord and what it would look like to let Him speak His words into those feelings.
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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 into that and how we can use that to grow and build our lives on rock of what it means to be beloved children of God.
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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 right word and place for them, and how they integrate with the spiritual life.
You can get a copy of the Monk Manual x CFR Collaboration Resourse and the Mysteries & Medicine Prayer Journal at: https://monkmanual.com/friars
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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-acceptance, self-possession with Jesus.
In this episode, we'll talk about the importance of self-knowledge and self-acceptance and how we can identify what we need to grow and/or accept throughout our interior life pilgrimage.
You can get a copy of the Monk Manual x CFR Collaboration Resourse and the Mysteries & Medicine Prayer Journal at: https://monkmanual.com/friars
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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 become the children of God he made us to be.
In this special episode with Spoke Street at SEEK 24, we'll talk about, reflect, and dive deeper into Fr. Isaiah's "Mysteries & Medicine" album by Fr. Isaiah and what it means to find God through the mysteries.
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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 album which teaches us how we can call out to Him and ask for the grace to trust Him and to be reunited in our identity, but most importantly, first and foremost, His identity—a deeper dive into our life journey, our pilgrimage with the one who is always with us, loves us and knows us by name.
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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—to be totally out of ourselves and make a self-gift back to God and to other people.
This episode is the third part of our series on Fr. Isaiah's Mysteries & Medicine which talks about the nature of our desires and how we can transform them from being self-centered to being outer-centered.
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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 and just to be with Him in it.
This episode is the second part of our series on Fr. Isaiah's Mysteries & Medicine which talks about our desires—the holy, the unmet, and the sinful desires and how we should respond to them.
You can get a physical CD copy of Mysteries & Medicine and the prayer journal at
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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 tough, blindness, poverty and suffering are often a part of it, but Jesus is with us in this pilgrimage and he desires to not just walk along with us but to be the way that we walk to the Father's heart.
This episode is the first part of our series on Fr. Isaiah's Mysteries & Medicine, which talks about life as a pilgrimage, the experience of mystery, and the response of Jesus to this experience.
You can get a physical CD copy of Mysteries & Medicine and the prayer journal at
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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 struggles, flaws, weaknesses, and even sins.
In our Catholic life, there will be a lot of questions that will come our way and in this episode, we'll try to answer a few of them.
Here is another one of our Hot Takes episodes that talks about some essential topics that most of us can relate to. In this episode we'll be going through the following topics:
1️⃣ A Perspective on Differences Between Men and Women
2️⃣ Free People, Free People
3️⃣ Stuff MattersThe Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
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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 struggles, flaws, weaknesses, and even sins.
In our Catholic life, there will be a lot of questions that will come our way and in this episode, we'll try to answer a few of them.
Here is another one of our Hot Takes episodes that talks about some essential topics that most of us can relate to. In this episode we'll be going through the following topics:
1️⃣ The Experience of Saul: Aging and Transition
2️⃣ Our Love for Home Through the Quirky and the Positive and How It Relates to God
3️⃣ The Confusion About What Is Sin or NotThe Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
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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 reality, that is not the case.
This decision is actually a culmination of careful assessment of one's discernment, capacity, and the call they felt into religious life. This episode speaks more about that in hopes of explaining the reasons behind those decisions and encountering the hurt and vulnerable in these situations.
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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 struggles, flaws, weaknesses, and even sins.
In our Catholic life, there will be a lot of questions that will come our way and in this episode, we'll try to answer a few of them.
Here is another one of our Hot Takes episodes that talks about some essential topics that most of us can relate to. In this episode we'll be going through the following topics:
1️⃣ The burden of learning new rules and prohibitions
2️⃣ A healthy consumption of media
3️⃣ The experience of priesthoodThe Poco a Poco podcast happens because of many generous donors, including recurring monthly donations of any amount. Thinking about helping out? You can give at https://spiritjuice.org/supportpoco. Thank you!
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Series on "The Father" by Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR (Part 11)
As a shepherd, what are you willing to lay down for your sheep?
For shepherds nowadays, and even in the times of the Apostle, the sheep are for the shepherd's sake, they serve him. It's not like vice versa, sheep are the product and we get them to pasture so they can grow, so we can slaughter them.
But this wasn't the case for Jesus, He said that "I am the good shepherd "and I lay down my life for my sheep."
Jesus loves us this way. He wants to be so close and hold us so intimately and he doesn't want us to be lost. He doesn't want us to be far away, but he wants to feed, protect, clothe, and hold us.
In this episode, as we bring our series on the book The Father to a close, we will be reflecting upon Jesus as the Good Shepherd and what this reveals to us of the heart of God as we talk about a story of a Father who freely lays down his life to save his son, and in doing so, loses his own life.
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Series on "The Father" by Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR (Part 10)
Can you imagine how it feels for a parent when their child dies?
A father and a mother don't want to lose any of their children and this is an icon of understanding how God doesn't want any of his children to be lost—how passionate God is about our salvation.
God desires none to be lost.
Today we'll talk about how we can walk towards life and away from death as a fruit of sin. We'll dive deeper into how we can keep the life of grace and the heart of God fully alive in our souls.
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Series on "The Father" by Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR (Part 9)
Do you trust God's mercy?
We are invited to bring to light those things that we are keeping in the dark, things that are tough, and trust that God in his mercy will love and care for us there.
When we bring something to the Lord, it's forgiven and it's gone, He no longer sees us with that. He doesn't define us as a son or daughter who did this bad thing. To the Father's eyes, we are not defined by our sin and our weakness but by His love and our capacity to live like His son or daughter. But at the same time, sin still can seriously hurt us and the Father is also zealous to crush it and the things that lead us to them.
Today we're looking at God and His Mercy and try to understand that a little bit. We'll take a look at both the merciful God and the God who is indifferent to sin.
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Series on "The Father" by Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR (Part 8)
What's your initial response to difficulty?
Difficulty and suffering is something that's part of the world we live in and to move forward with the Lord we have to live in this reality, even though it's hard.
God is with us in it!
One of the things a father also has to do is to teach their children and equip their children to do hard things. God the Father equips us and prepares us for what we need to have fulfillment and happiness in salvation, which includes learning how to carry and share in the suffering on the cross.
In this episode, we'll talk about how to persevere in doing hard things for an extended period of time and how to stay steady with the Lord amidst the difficulty.
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Series on "The Father" by Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR (Part 7)
What's the role that rules and laws play?
Rules create boundaries and usually define the best way to do things. However, following rules can also NOT lead to freedom, this is why we need to learn to find the right balance in following the rules.
In this episode, we will talk about the spirituality of laws and rules and how we can find balance to be safe, secure, and free in following them.
We are also invited to look at some of these rules that we have established, these etiquettes or cultures that we've put on ourselves, our neighbors, or our pastors.
Let's do some discernment of whether or not these are from God or not. And to also, go deeper and see what's at the heart of why we do that and ultimately, bring that to the Lord.
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