Transforming Men’s Ministry in Your Parish

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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4.9 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dave “Living Large”' VanVickle and I address a question sent in by one of our listeners, Dante, on the Catholic Church’s struggle to engage men. We discuss the importance of community for men, and share tactics on how to transform men’s ministry in your parish.

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“Every man wants a battle to fight, a beauty to rescue, and an adventure to live”- John Eldredge

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0:00.0	Every man wants a battle to fight, a beauty to rescue, and an adventure to live.
0:26.8	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, back to Every Knee Shall Bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization.
0:31.9	I am Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined by Dave Live and Large Van Vickle.
0:33.0	How you doing, Dave?
0:34.5	Nice. You saw my t-shirt.
0:35.7	I saw your t-shirt.
0:41.6	Hey, and you'll notice that my video hasn't completely died because I'm using my church Wi-Fi and not my home Wi-Fi.
0:53.7	Oh, nice. I got mine all fixed up. They came out and got us all hooked up now, so I'm not having any more problems. But pretty much all my T-shirts say live large on them right now. My family all makes fun. They make fun of me for them.
1:01.2	What now? Is this like a sporting men's double XL plan? Yeah, it's a weight left lifting brand. But the truth is when I find a t-shirt I like, because I consider my life uniform shorts and
1:07.4	t-shirts. Yeah. That I buy like four of them. So I literally have four of this, this red, exact same red t-shirts. Yeah. That I buy like four of them. So I literally have four of this red,
1:12.4	exact same red t-shirt.
1:15.3	I buy them to the point of my wife getting annoyed and then I stop.
1:20.5	I remember one Christmas.
1:22.6	My mom,
1:23.3	I was like 19.
1:24.5	I had just come home from my freshman year of Franciscan.
1:26.9	My mom liked those, those pullover, like sweater things that have like the little zipper collar.
1:33.5	You know, it was like a polo shirt with a zipper.
1:35.6	My mom bought me five of them all in different colors, but the exact same thing.
1:40.3	And I looked at it and I said, can I just pick one and take the rest back?
1:43.4	And she's like, and I was like, it's the same thing.
1:46.9	And then she's like, no, it's.
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