Nick interviews the bright young David Billings, a teenager who started his own website for young people discerning their true calling in life. David talks about his desire from a young age to be involved in the mass, discerning his own vocation, being homeschooled, and how he turned his passion into a website for helping others to discover their true vocation. David’s website offers a simple avenue for those beginning their journey of discernment towards marriage, religious life, or single-life.
Episode 66 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/discover-your-vocation-and-find-peace-w-david-billings David’s Website - https://godsplan4u.info/ “In God’s will, there is great peace.” - St. Josephine Bakhita Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Deacon Harold Burke Sivers Event at Awaken Catholic Theater - https://app.moonclerk.com/pay/vcy1kfefw9b Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick interviews Kathleen and Troy Billings, the authors of the new book for married couples called “Simply Love”. They share their amazing love story, including both marrying the wrong people. They talk annulments, reconnecting, weekly adoration as a couple, the importance of keeping God at the center of their marriage, and how the devil tried to stop their book before it could be published.

In this CATHOLIC WEIRD STUFF segment we discuss CONTRACEPTION. What constitutes contraception, why the Church forbids it, and the beauty of marital love being completely open to God’s will.

Episode 65 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/annulment-adoration-and-learning-to-simply-love-w-kathleen-and-troy-billings "Simply Love" at Our Sunday Visitor - https://www.orderosv.com/product/simply-love-catholic-marriage-day-by-day Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick is joined by the founder of Sufficient Grace Ministries, Kelly Gerken! Kelly shares her story of growing up in a single parent home, getting married young, the earth shattering experience of losing a child during pregnancy, and how she discovered a call to found her ministry for grieving parents. Now Grace Ministries offers multiple services in order to comfort families dealing with terminal diagnoses and pregnancy loss. In this Catholic Weird Stuff Segment we discuss the Virgin Mary and the Saints! Find out why Catholics call Mary our Spiritual Mother and what it means to venerate the Saints.

Episode 64 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Sufficient Grace Ministries - https://sufficientgraceministries.org/about-us/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/SufficientGraceMinistries Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sufficientgraceministries/ Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/pregnancy-loss-and-comfort-for-grieving-parents-w-kelly-gerken Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick is joined by Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers and Ellen Holmes-Steve LeBlanc, the two additional hosts of The Prodigal Life podcast. Learn how one chance meeting at a Catholic Marketing Network Conference led to the creation of the Prodigal Life! The three discuss how the show covers topics such as theology, Church history, personal faith journeys, everyday Catholicism and how God’s love and mercy are always waiting for you to return to Him. God loves the prodigal son. You are never too far gone! In this Catholic Weird Stuff Segment we talk about aliens! What do Catholics believe about extraterrestrial life? Are Catholics allowed to believe in life beyond our planet? Join us as we have a fun conversation about the potentiality for alien life forms in the universe.

Episode 63 Show Host: Nick De La Torre The Prodigal Life Show - https://www.awakencatholic.church/patron/join-the-prodigal-life Ellen’s Non-profit - https://www.destined4this.com Deacon Harold - https://deaconharold.com Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/meet-the-host-youre-never-too-far-gone-w-deacon-harold-and-ellen Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick is joined by the host of Pop Culture Catechism, Mike Tenney. This conversation addresses the danger of viewing faith as a transaction, idolatry, and why rituals are a good thing. Mike shares how he began his podcast with a desire to digest pop culture through the lens of faith in order to reach those who feel broken and wounded. In this Catholic Weird Stuff Segment we discuss Catholic Social Teaching. Did you know that “Social Justice” actually came from Catholic theology and social teaching? But what does it mean to fight for justice in social issues as a Catholic?

Episode 62 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/meet-the-host-catholicism-social-justice-and-spiritual-truths-in-pop-culture-w-mike-tenney Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick is joined by the president and founder of Mass Impact, Greg Schleuter! This episode addresses living an authentic life of faith, pursuing holiness and how that impacts your family. Nick and Greg discuss creating a strong faith environment at home, intentional moments together, living a holy life, the value of true humility, and recognizing that one’s ultimate purpose is to know God. This Catholic Weird Stuff Segment addresses Catholic obligation. What does it mean to have Holy Days of Obligation? Why are Catholics obliged to do specific things? We cannot stress enough the importance of the disposition of the heart. God’s commandments are meant for our good and spring out of His love for us.

Episode 61 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/living-a-holu-life-and-what-that-means-for-your-family-w-greg-schleuter Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

LIVE from the Awaken Theater, Christopher West joins Nick De La Torre to talk about sex, love, and satisfying the hunger of the human heart. In this lively discussion Nick and Chris address making the rules make sense, understanding the beauty of salvation, true love, Christian morality and sexuality. Digging deep into healing from porn addiction and the redemption of human sexuality vs repression. We end with a Q and A from the audience and Things. Get. REAL. In this Catholic Weird Stuff Segment we discuss “Divinization” and the idea that we are called to become gods. We unpack this mystery of participating in the divine nature and how by grace we are called to become like God.

Episode 60 Show Host: Nick De La Torre The Cor Project - http://corproject.com/about-christopher-west/ Ask Christopher West Podcast - https://askchristopherwest.com Theology of the Body Institute - https://tobinstitute.org Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/what-catholics-actually-believe-about-sex-love-and-destiny-interview-and-q-and-a-w-christopher-west Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick interviews the two savvy and humble founders of the Catholic company "Sock Religious". Scott and Elisabeth Williams share their story of falling in love, going from ministry work to business owners, finding sudden popularity, developing their umbrella group Catholic Concepts, and how simply wearing Catholic socks can help you spread the faith.

In this Catholic Weird Stuff segment we discuss dead bodies and relics. Why do Catholics cut up and disperse the bodies and clothing of Saints as relics to be venerated and what does the Church say about cremation?

Episode 59 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Sock Religious - https://sockreligious.com Catholic Concepts - https://www.catholicconcepts.com Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/religious-socks-dead-bodies-and-catholic-concepts Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Not your grandmother's Catholic talk show. Join Nick De La Torre in hilarious, thought-provoking, and tear jerking conversations about faith, life, and God. Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick interviews attorney at law and leader of the new Toledo chapter of Young Catholic Professionals (YCP), John (Jack) Kelly. Jack talks about his discernment process in finding his vocation, being open to the will of God, his journey to studying law, being Catholic in the workplace, and how YCP helps connect Catholic professionals with each other as well as inspire Christians to invite Christ into the workplace. In this Catholic Weird Stuff Segment we discuss Feast Days and why Catholics love to party. Every wondered why Catholics celebrate the death of the saints with “feast days”, especially when many of them died horrific deaths? We discuss some of the weird traditions for specific days and how they started.

Episode 58 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/young-catholic-professionals-and-being-catholic-in-the-workplace-w-jack-kelly YCP Toledo - https://www.youngcatholicprofessionals.org/chapter/toledo Get Tickets for Coffee w/Christopher West - https://ChristopherWest.awakencatholic.org Get Tickets for Mike Mangione in Concert - https://MikeMangione.awakencatholic.org Want to go to both events? - https://March29Combo.awakencatholic.org Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Not your grandmother's Catholic talk show. Join Nick De La Torre in hilarious, thought-provoking, and tear jerking conversations about faith, life, and God. Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission

Nick interviews host of the Physically Spiritual podcast, Andrew Reinhart. The two recount how their friendship began with Andrew taking the time to mentor Nick through heart to heart evangelization. Andrew relates his internal pressure to be perfect, the difference between the natural and supernatural, “New Age” spirituality, healing is a means to an end, and the journey to discovering truth. In this Catholic Weird Stuff Segment we discuss Bilocation. What does it mean to be in two places at once? What saints are known for this phenomenon and how do we know it isn’t just astral-projection?

Episode 57 Show Host: Nick De La Torre Show Page: https://www.awakencatholic.org/theawakencatholicshow/meet-the-host-health-science-and-spirituality-w-andrew-reinhart Check out the Catholic Merch Store - https://catholicmerch.store Check out Physically Spiritual - https://www.awakencatholic.org/physically-spiritual https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Not your grandmother's Catholic talk show. Join Nick De La Torre in hilarious, thought-provoking, and tear jerking conversations about faith, life, and God. Join my PATRON community Go to https://TheAwakenCatholicShow.com Get the AWAKEN Catholic app at https://theawakenapp.io Bring the AWAKEN MISSION to your parish! https://www.awakencatholic.church/mission