Talking With A Good Man

Aloha! Join me as we continue an amazing Lenten journey through the Screwtape letters! Let’s strive together to be good Men for God, for our families, for our Churches, and for ourselves!

God has called us all to greatness, no more sitting on the sidelines! We know what God does with those who are lukewarm…He spits them out.

Today, and every day of the week, Monday to Friday, through all of lent, I’ll be reading a Screwtape letter every day, followed by some amazing and life-changing insight from Marlon De La Torre’s study guide to The Screwtape Letters. After this, you can expect a brilliant commentary on the letter for that day from either myself or a special guest.

On the last day, on April 14th, I’ll have a very special live YouTube show to celebrate the end.

Enjoy and I’ll see you tomorrow!

If you would like to contact me, my email is [email protected].

If you feel in your heart to support this ministry, I would love that! There is so much other equipment I would love to be able to purchase to make this a whole lot better! please Venmo me @jaygoodman75.

I have partnered with my friend Bear Woznick and bearschoolofmanliness.com, and I would love to plug you in with like-minded, amazing Catholic Men who want to truly be manly Men while serving the Lord. Bear’s website has amazing content designed to help you, your Wife, and even your older kids (age 13-18) be part of a group of Men who are truly amazing. https://www.bearschoolofmanliness.com/ManCaveJason?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bearschoolofmanliness.com%2Fa%2F2147506040%2FpzWXiTvm

May God richly bless you.

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen

Aloha! This is the beginning of an amazing Lenten journey through the Screwtape letters! Join me as we strive together to be good Men for God, for our families, for our Churches and for ourselves!

God has called us all to greatness, no more sitting on the sidelines! We know what God does with those who are lukewarm…He spits them out.

Starting today, and every day of the week, Monday to Friday, through all of lent, I’ll be reading a Screwtape letter every day, followed by some amazing and life-changing insight from Marlon De La Torre’s study guide to the Screwtape letters. After this, you can expect a brilliant commentary on the letter for that day from either myself or a special guest.

On the last day, on April 14th, I’ll have a very special live YouTube show to celebrate the end.

Enjoy and I’ll see you tomorrow!

If you would like to contact me, my email is [email protected].

If you feel in your heart to support this ministry, I would love that! There is so much other equipment I would love to be able to purchase to make this a whole lot better! please venmo me @jaygoodman75

I have partnered with my friend Bear Woznick and bearschoolofmanliness.com, and I would love to plug you in with like-minded, amazing Catholic Men who want to truly be manly Men while serving the Lord. Bear’s website has amazing content designed to help you, your Wife and even your older kids (age 13-18) be part of a group of Men who are truly amazing.

May God richly bless you.

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

Aloha! This is another episode of Talking with a Good man, my name is Jay Goodman! This show is all about Catholic masculinity and being the best Man God created you to be.

Enjoy the new music, it’s awesome!!

My last name, Good Man, its an absolutely hard one to live up to, sometimes near-impossible! Through daily successes and lots of failures, I work to be forgiving and loving while striving for strength with magnanimity because we’re all made for greatness and God calls us all to truly be a Good Man.

join me in striving to be a Good Man, for yourself, your Family, your Church, and most importantly for God!! Let’s step into that scary breach, where the work and danger is! And we as Men love the danger, don’t we? If we use it appropriately and righteously, mannnnnn in can bring strength.

Today’s podcast is with a guy who is a truly masculine Catholic man, Mark Hartfiel…and he will be the first to tell you he is struggling daily like the rest of us. This Man is blessed at being the VP for TMIY, otherwise known as that man is you. It was started by Steve Bollman as a HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL attempt to make a program for Fathers to be better Dads, Husbands, Men and Catholics.

From their website, TMIY or That Man is You! honestly addresses the pressures and temptations that men face in our modern culture, especially those relating to their roles as husbands and fathers. The program harmonizes current social and medical science with the teachings of the Church and the wisdom of the saints to develop the vision of man fully alive!

As I always do at the end of my podcasts, here is the drink of the day from my friend Michael Foley’s book “Drinking with the Saints”.

I made sure to ask Mark who his favorite Saint is. He said it was St Joseph! How cool!

On Saint Joseph, Mark told me why he picked him. St Joseph is hidden, humble, meek, pure of heart and yet powerful, a terror of demons.  He saw the face of God every day in his home in the face of his child.  He found the presence of Christ abiding within his wife.  His home was a type of paradise.  He is everything I want to be.

After all of this and the podcast, we go into the drink of the day from Michael Foley’s book “Drinking with the Saints” which is coming out soon as a re-release in BLUE color!!!!

Enjoy the podcast, enjoy the “short silent retreat” at the end with my beloved Priest, Father Rheo, please pray that I am a holy Man and that I continue to uphold all that is Catholic Masculinity.

If you want to get hold of me, my email is a new one! It’s [email protected]

Aloha! This is Jay Goodman and welcome to Talking with a Good Man! A Podcast aimed at calling all Men to be a Good Man! My last name, Good Man, is a hard one to live up to. Daily, I work to kill Pride, be forgiving while striving for humility because, we’re all made for greatness and God calls us to be a Good Man. I want to ask you to join me in striving to be that Good Man, for yourself, your Family, your Church, and most importantly for God!!

Once you realize we’re all Good Men, deep down, past our struggles with Sin, past our failings, and seeing our successes in life, our magnanimity, you’ll begin to grow!!

And when we truly embrace being a Good Man, it gives us great power in Jesus. And like Spider-Man said, “with great power comes great responsibility”. So let us be great!!

Let us be noble!! Let us be constantly full of the Holy Spirit. In doing so, you will truly be a Good Man.

Today I am welcoming the first Good Woman onto my show. Remember, Beside every good Man is a good Woman and Jesus has thousands of good Women that work directly for him, Sisters or Nuns, that serve him directly, and only him, as we know, never being married, devoting their entire lives to the cause of Christianity, of our one, true Holy and Catholic Church. And this particular Sister has had a HUGE role in Men’s lives, through the Into the Breach video series put on by the Knights of Columbus last year. Into the Breach was originally a homily written by Bishop Olmsted, the Bishop of the Arizona archdiocese to spur Men on to step into the breach and be stronger Men for God, their Families, and their Church. It is based off of the verse from Ezekiel 22:30 which says “and I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land”.

And after the Knights of Columbus used this homily to create a study guide and 12 amazing videos, they took this and inside each of the 12 amazing videos produced by my fellow Knights of Columbus are many fellow Catholics who were asked to speak their wisdom here and there, really bringing us a great treasure in these videos. One of the people, Sister Maris Stella, was in the Into the Breach videos and mainly on the 6th video installment titled “Life” where she speaks of Men needing to be courageous and to, quite literally, stand in the Breach for Women against abortion. She talks about how they can do that and we will talk about that today too.

We will first though, talk about how she went from being a counter drug Naval operations Officer to being Sister Maris Stella and all about her journey to directly serving God with her life by becoming a Sister in our beautiful Catholic Church. Enjoy!

Well that’s it for the podcast today my friends!! I hope you are looking forward to the next podcast I will have, as I welcome onto my show Mark Hartfiel, the TMIY (that man is you) National Director. He’s an awesome Catholic Man and just an all-around great guy.

If you have a question for me, please email me at [email protected].

If you feel in your heart to give to my podcast show, I would greatly appreciate it. My Venmo is @jaygoodman75. I am actually expanding a little so help would be amazing right now. If you have never had the Hallow app on your phone, and would like it, you should get it! They just started a 30 day sleep challenge where great Catholics out there we know and love speak the word to you in a very calming way in order to help you wind down with God at the end of your day. People like Dr Scott Hahn, Father Mike Schmitz and others! There l is a link through me, in the show notes, to download this amazing app to use to grow closer to God. https://hallow.ac9mny.net/c/2876891/1097878/11108 And lastly, please enjoy the Drink of the Day!

Welcome to the 8th podcast on talking with a good man.

Today i would like to introduce our next guest, an awesome Good Man named Nick Redd from Ydisciple on the show. He is a Catholic magician missionary/witness extraordinaire for Ydisciple and other ministries. Have you ever heard of such a person?

What is Ydisciple, you ask?

In a nutshell, Ydisciple is small group discipleship for young people. This concept got lost somewhere and it is making its way back into the church. That’s why I like the Catholic Men’s group I’m in, because it’s small enough and diverse enough that we can each offer “indirect discipleship” to each other by listening to what the other is going through, while offering direct one-on-one discipleship outside of the group, but BECAUSE of the group. YDisciple is a toolbox of training resources for adults and teaching resources for teens specifically designed with small groups in mind.

These resources include very well-done videos for young people middle school through high school, but also leader guides to help adults facilitate meaningful discussion, participant guides to help teens grasp key concepts, and parent resources to encourage parents to stay engaged. 

YDisciple isn’t just another video resource. They understand that programs don’t make disciples. Only a disciple can. That’s why YDisciple couples video resources with extensive training and support for leaders. In Nick’s case he has a very non-threatening form of approaching people to witness Jesus to them through magic and illusion, Then he invites them to get involved with a Ydisciple meeting and the rest is history.

Discipleship is apprenticing someone in the Christian life and helping them develop spiritual disciplines. We are truly living out Matthew 28:19 when Jesus asked us to “go therefore and make disciples of all nations.”

Jesus focused on a small group. Making disciples is very relational and time intensive. There needs to be a strong level of trust, communication, and support in order to create the environment for discipleship. In a small group a teen can feel known, loved, and cared for. A level of confidentiality can be achieved which gives teens the freedom to open up about their struggles and doubts. In a small group there is the greater possibility to catch the things that teens don’t understand and have a discussion. In addition, the small group allows the leader to know their disciples well and thus be able to customize the topics of discussion that best reach those teens.

Today with my very special guest, Nick, we will talk about his life, his history with Ydisciple, and how he ended up on the videos for and with young people doing magic!!?? We will also talk about a defining dream he had including a great demonic presence, and his AMAZING conversion story. If you are a young person, this podcast will really speak to you, but this is also amazing for Men and Dads everywhere too, so you can see (and remember hopefully!) what life was maybe like for you when you (we) cause I’m there too! were all teens and young people. Here’s the thing Men, if your kid is not being holy, it’s a direct reflection on you in some parts. Yes, they have the free will to sin, and boy DO they, but we are called as Dads to be holy and awesome towards them so they make better decisions. The ugly truth is that if our kids are doubting their faith and really struggling, it’s because of us. BELIEVE me though, I struggle with this every single day. That loss from screwing up with my kids, watching them act like me but on my worst days, it just really smacks me in the face and makes me contemplate heaven and hell and my personal holiness on earth like never before. I love them so much, and I know you all do too, but unfortunately some of our bad habits and idiosyncrasies are passed on. My email is [email protected] and my Venmo (if you feel inclined to give) is @jaygoodman75 enjoy this podcast!

In this final “Part two” episode, we will finish talking with Chris Currie about how he and his good friend Michael Hanby got involved with Rod Drehr and the Benedict Option, and how he ended up on the pages of such an amazing book that has helped revolutionize families everywhere!

As we finish up, we continue to talk about that intentionality of Catholicism, and how Saint Jerome parish continues to provide that natural sense of wonder that a proper education provides to a growing mind, and to enhance that learning through the good, true and beautiful in the one true Catholic Church.

Enjoy and I look forward to talking to the next Good Man on talking with a Good Man. God bless you all! http://hallow.com/talkingwithagoodman

Being Intentionally Catholic, Family and being in the book “The Benedict Option”

Chris Currie, who was one of many people featured in the book “Benedict Option” by Rod Drehr, is an awesome Catholic Good Man who lives in Hyattsville Maryland, just outside of the D.C. area. After noticing the downward unfortunate spiral of the Saint Jerome parish there, he, along with a few others, saved the Church AND made it, with God’s help, into one of the most amazing Catholic schools in the Nation!

In this part one podcast with Chris, we will talk family, past and present, but he will also speak deeply about the need to be an intentional Catholic, to seek out those churches that truly provide community. Nowadays it seems so difficult to find churches like this, and even though many seem to be leaving the Church, more and Catholics are working to seek out the churches that provide an amazing community. He goes on to talk about how, if you can’t find something like that, create it yourself! Change your church by making it more of a Catholic COMMUNITY yourself!

He and I also talk about judging and miss judging others at church and sometimes what happens when you end up judging others at church and just some personal thoughts and stories about that.

Then we move into Fathers and what sort of a Father and Mother Chris had and how that helped shape his faith and especially his consistency and devotion to the faith. We all have faith, but how strong is it? Who helped instill, shape and strengthen your faith? http://hallow.com/talkingwithagoodman

On this podcast I will be talking with Michael P Foley who authored the Catholic book “Drinking with the Saints” which is also one of the coolest Catholic Books I’ve ever owned!!

Michael P Foley is the Professor of Patristics at Baylor University as well as the Author of the book “Drinking with the Saints”. Listen to this amazing podcast to find out more!

Wait for the end cause it’s an amazing buildup to the end.

For more information about Michael Foley and to order this book or others, go to:

https://www.baylor.edu/greattexts/index.php?id=960242

https://michaelpfoley.info

https://drinkingwiththesaints.com/coming-soon/

And to email me I am at [email protected]. If you feel inclined to give, my PayPal is [email protected]. Thank you!!

http://hallow.com/talkingwithagoodman

I am back! After a VERY busy Easter season, I am back to recording and editing and getting you some more awesome original content to help you be a more holy, MASCULINE Catholic Man! Step into the Breach for your Wife, your Family and your Church!

My next guest is the “Jerusalem Jones” of the Church, Stephen Ray and he is an amazing Man of God!! He didn’t know it until a few weeks ago, but he and I go way back. Back to when he helped me be a much stronger Catholic Man, more informed about the truth, and how to explain it better to a Protestant, as he, like me, used to be one. Join us as we talk about Marriage, Porn, some “footprints of God”, and just some excellent advice on raising children in this crazy world!

Enjoy, and if you have any comments, good OR bad, please let me know at [email protected]. If you feel in your heart to donate, I would greatly appreciate it. Please PayPal me at [email protected]. Also, my guest today can be found at Catholicconvert.com!

Happy Easter! He has Risen!! http:// hallow.com/talkingwithagoodman

Join us as I finish this amazing discussion with Ryan Young, Camp Veritas Director and one of the show hosts for the Into the Breach video series put on by the Knights of Columbus. He discusses in this episode who actually got him out of his funk in starting Camp Veritas and we discuss what it truly means to be a Catholic Masculine Man, especially in this day and age! Men! Step into the Breach for your Family and for the Church!! Become a Knight (if you are not one) and join the “Into the Breach” movement.

If you don’t have a group where you are, and you are willing to stay up late (if you are on the east coast), feel free to join us on our once-a-month (on Friday evenings) Into the Breach Men’s study I am leading through December. We will hit all 12 episodes, watch one of the awesome videos put on by the Knights of Columbus, and learn so much together and grow closer as Catholic Masculine Men as we go through the study guide during the meetings. We have many Men who connect from the mainland. All are welcome!

https://www.kofchawaii.org

Here is the Into the Breach site link, the study guide link so you can follow along, and the original homily by Bishop Olmsted.

http://www.kofc.org/en/campaigns/into-the-breach.html

http://www.kofc.org/en/resources/faith-in-action-programs/faith/into-the-breach/11059-into-the-breach-video-series-study-guide.pdf

https://dphx.org/into-the-breach/

Here is the link for Camp Veritas. Such an awesome opportunity for your children at only around $400 a person! Scholarships are available!!

https://www.campveritas.org. Also, as promised, here is a website with the complete statistics of Catholics who have left the church in staggering numbers and in various ways. So sad.

https://www.newemangelization.com/man-crisis/the-catholic-man-crisis-factsheet/

Also, here is my website. It is up and ready and I’ll be adding and fixing it as we go so I can make it as perfect as possible for you, including a new logo.

https://www.FierceCatholic.com please be patient as I make updates again before website goes live again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

And lastly, after humbly receiving permission from the author, I bring you the new and permanent addition to my podcast, my “Drinking with the Saints” segment...so enjoy that!

https://drinkingwiththesaints.com http://hallow.com/talkingwithagoodman