Before They Set Something on Fire

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week guest host Fr. CJ Mast takes the lead on discussing the educational ideal of St. John Bosco. Known as the "preventive system," Bosco's approach is informed by the experience not just "being loved" - but "knowing that you are loved." Reflecting on his six years of high school chaplaincy, Fr. CJ unpacks with Fr. John the varying themes that lie within this authentic human approach to education.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J10 initiative.
0:09.7	Welcome back to the podcast, everyone. My name is...
0:13.0	You got this.
0:14.0	I feel like I already messed this up.
0:15.5	All right, let's start over. Go ahead.
0:17.3	Welcome back to the podcast. It's Father C.J. Mast here with Father John Neppel.
0:21.2	That's right. This is our new recruit. So this is like a batting practice, though. You know, you're just warming up. So.
0:27.5	Yeah, if you don't, if you don't like it, then please say something. Go ahead.
0:32.3	Father C.J. joined me for one of the three Dante podcasts. And now we're bringing him back, but he's in the pilot seat now.
0:40.3	So it's great to have you.
0:41.7	Hey, great to be here.
0:42.8	Yeah, we'll see how today it goes.
0:45.3	Father CJ is, as we talked about last time, he is our kid brother in the household, which is soon to be disbanded. We've had a great year together, a lot of fun with the one and only Father Brian Larkin, the high-functioning melancholic. But Father CJ has two older brothers, so he fits right in with the banter. One of the best, one of the best at taking it and addition it. love it i appreciate it's like your love language it's
1:11.8	amazing it really is like every time that you guys throw me under the bus or pick on me or anything i just
1:17.2	receive it in love we had two uh recent uh throw father cj under the bus moments the first was
1:23.7	the most recent was convocation or sorry or sorry, commencement. The commencement.
1:27.9	You want to talk about that?
1:28.7	Oh, yeah. I have to get Larkin back for this. So I, first of all, Larkin did a great job. He did. And he's given the first commitment speech for John Paul the Great's graduation. Which you're the chaplain of? I'm the cha of and he's he's given the point to the youth of
1:44.9	it's more important to be uh to know who you are than what you do and it's it's going along
1:51.0	great and then all of a sudden he brings up my name and he's like take father cj for instance
1:55.4	you're like oh no i'm like oh great like where is he going with this and the first words that
1:59.3	come about his mouth is father cj tries to spend so much time convincing us that he's an adult. And then he compares me to a
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