Not every relationship is the same, so not every fraternal correction will be the same. 

This may vary between a parent and a child, between friends, between a boss and his subordinates, between strangers, or between a formator and the people their forming. 

In today's episode, we will discuss ...

Loneliness is a common experience that we all share. 

Whether you're in crowds of people or constantly with other people who are not peers. Maybe you're in a marriage surrounded by kids all day, or you could be in isolation and feel you have not been chosen by people.

Either way, at times we ca...

What do you do after Easter Sunday?

We are invited to be overwhelmed with paschal joy during the Easter season, but instead, we usually resolve to our daily grind like everything isn't transformed by our encounter with the risen Lord. 

So many of us return to our normal ways shortly after the r...

How much do you know about the hosts of the Poco a Poco Podcast?

Some people have been along with the Poco a Poco journey for some time now and may already know certain things about them. On the other hand, some people might also be new to this podcast and may want to know more about our beloved...

"How is Jesus calling you to serve the poor?" This is the question we'll attempt to answer in this episode.

Jesus loved the poor and like Him, we are called to be a lifeline for a person in need.

God sees the poor but we are called to intercede on their behalf—to be somebody who's able to bring...

As we continue with our journeys through life, we constantly encounter our own and other people's struggles, flaws, weaknesses and even sins. But 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...

Do we live our lives believing—having faith in the resurrection?

In this ongoing journey of stripping the things we clothe ourselves with, Jesus wants us to give him the things that hold us back and desires to give himself in return.

We have sins that isolates and causes us to go into hiding, b...

Can we allow ourselves to be exposed before the Lord in prayer?

Are we able to be before the Lord as we are and not holding anything back of ourselves or hiding ourselves in any way?

These are the questions that we are attempting to unpack in this seventh part of our Lenten series.

In this epi...

How does Jesus have authority? It is through His obedience to the Father.
But one incredible reality of Jesus is that, in His authority He takes all the stench to the cross where it will be killed in His crucifixion.

His authority is not one that lords it over us. It's not one that forces us to ...

"Have I told Jesus all of my story?" That's the question that we are going to unpack in this episode.

Most of us have confessed and have sought healing in particular places of our lives, but there are still parts of who we are now that we keep in the dark—the stench.

The reality of that stench ...

There's this simplicity that when we encounter Jesus, our lives become different. We may not understand it and it might not look the same for each of us, but our lives becomes different.

Just like the story of the man born blind, before he met Jesus and hoped in Him, he was living in darkness un...

In one form or another, we can sometimes live in isolation and hiding. Because of shame and sin, we clothe ourselves with shadows and hide. These lies we hide behind keep us stuck and paralyzed—Jesus wants to call us out of that. The places of hiding don’t have to defeat us, but they can become t...

What going up the mountain offers is an opportutiy to come face-to-face with God. 

It provides a perspective where we can see what's actually important. Up there we are invited to embrace the experience and the beauty of childlike wonder and awe, it's a place of intimacy with and revelation of G...

There are a number of practices that we are preparing to do during this Lent. But this time of year shouldn't only be a project that we need to fulfill but rather an opportunity.

Lent is an opportunity to exercise a posture of prayer, fasting, almsgiving and surrender. Surrendering to someone, t...

The first of the nine beatitudes of Matthew said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

The world is constantly trying to define us—it tries to tell us who we are. Our successes, belongings, talents, people in our lives, our jobs, culture and technology, all thes...

We cannot grow in freedom unless we grow in faith, hope and love—that's the recipe for freedom.

Faith, hope and love are the three theological virtues that connect us to God. As Christians, we are people who believe in God, hope everything from Him, and want to love Him with all their hearts and...

We think we're most free when we can kind of be in control.

"I'm free when I get to get up every day and just have control over my life and my circumstances."

That's not a Catholic freedom according to Jacque Philippe, but it is actually being able to accept reality as it is.

We struggle with ...

What makes us most free, is this submitting to God and this dependence on Him.

Yes, freedom is actually dependent on obedience rather than kind of doing whatever I want.

When we fall in love with God and we experience that love, this deep interior freedom takes place and it becomes the most imp...

How do we reconcile being strong and weak at the same time?

There has to come a healthy recognition that we're just unable to do things.

And it's in this weakness, in recognizing that we have a lack, that Christ is then able to come in and actually be the one who moves us through that weakness ...

A habitual and firm disposition to do good, not just for ourselves but for everybody—this is how virtue is defined.

Virtue allows the person, not only to perform good acts but to give the best of themselves for the greatest good of everybody.

But why do we do it? Who's it truly for and how do w...

"Who Is God" and "Who am I?"

This is what we're attempting to answer when we talk about living in the proper order of relationship, identity, and mission.

We are living in a time where we're going through an identity crisis. In the very foundation, a lot of us are forgetting who we are. We forg...

Why do we need to go deeper into our spiritual life? What does that actually mean?

Going deeper into our spiritual life means recognizing that we are not the ones in control anymore. It is accepting this place of poverty that we cannot only rely on ourselves, to fabricate everything and make it ...

Mary wants the Holy Spirit to come to our life, as the Holy Spirit came for her. When we're struggling, when we don't understand, when we're having deep desires and longings of our hearts, the Holy Spirit will come.

God is good, God will send and He will give us everything, we just need to have ...

We have this tendency that we want to fix or clean-up certain things first before we let the Lord in.

We are afraid that our place, our lives are messy-that it's too much for anyone even for God to handle.

But God is NOT panicking, he's completely in control.

He's not afraid or scandalized of ...