Becoming a Happier Catholic Man: Presence, Porn, and Penance w/ Matthew Christoff
The Catholic Man Show
The Catholic Man Show
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Adam and David welcome back longtime friend and mentor Matthew Christoff of EveryCatholicMan.com to talk about what it really means to become a happier Catholic man.
Matthew shares the story behind his new devotional, “Becoming a Happier Catholic Man 2026,” and why he believes every man can be happier by drawing closer to Jesus, embracing suffering, and living a zealous Catholic life.
Topics discussed:
- Why God actually wills our true and lasting happiness
- The difference between fleeting pleasure and beatitude
- Practicing the presence of God in ordinary daily life
- Using “triggers” like sirens, cemeteries, and churches to turn the mind to God
- How technology, curiosity, and pornography are devastating modern manhood
- Homeostasis of the soul: breaking habits and building new spiritual baselines
- Why pornography and AI-generated lust are a major assault on men and women
- Confession, near occasions of sin, and forming a real battle plan
- The need for a “penance revival” to accompany the Eucharistic Revival
- Why evangelizing men is decisive for families, parishes, and culture
- How awe of Jesus, not just information about him, is the foundation of conversion
- The structure of the book: weekly Gospel commentary, awe-of-Jesus focus, maxims, and prayers
- Using the devotional as a couple and in the domestic church
Resources mentioned:
- Becoming a Happier Catholic Man 2026 – devotional for Sundays and feast days of the liturgical year
- EveryCatholicMan.com – Matthew Christoff’s apostolate and resources for men
- Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church (references used throughout the book)
Learn more and get the book:
Visit EveryCatholicMan.com or search “Becoming a Happier Catholic Man 2026” on Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | I think every man can be happier. |
| 0:03.5 | And the way to be happier is to draw closer to Jesus, |
| 0:07.4 | realize that you need him, and live a zealous Catholic life, |
| 0:11.0 | as much as you can at this moment. |
| 0:14.0 | And you'll be happier. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to the Catholic Man Show. |
| 0:20.6 | We're on the Lord's team, The Winning Side. |
| 0:22.6 | So Raise Your Glass. |
| 0:25.1 | Make sure to raise our glass. |
| 0:26.4 | Indeed. |
| 0:27.1 | It's been a while since we've been on video, |
| 0:30.7 | and so we've gotten lazy with the raising of the glass as we've said it. |
| 0:34.1 | Like, we haven't had to, like, be in a, like, oh, they're not watching, |
| 0:37.0 | so I don't have to actually raise my class. But it's great to be here. It's great to have a good friend of ours. One that Dave and I have both looked up to over the years. We've had, we've considered him a friend. We've considered him kind of a mentor of ours. I remember when we first started the Catholic Nash. |
| 0:55.0 | There's very few times when you start something that you, like, you need that word of encouragement. |
| 1:03.0 | Like whenever you finally like get over the hump, that's not when you need the encouragement, right? |
| 1:06.0 | It's not when you need some guy to kind of pick you up or to be to say like hey move forward or to be |
| 1:13.5 | there for you because you've already done the thing it's typically when you're first starting |
| 1:18.6 | and you're alone and you're quiet and it's like it's just kind of you and you're just trying to |
| 1:24.3 | grind and make this thing go and how things should be. |
| 1:34.7 | So Matthew Christop, it's great to have you on the Catholic Manfred show again, and it's great to just see you and have a chance to talk to you. |
| 1:36.6 | You know, hi. |
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