

The Catholic Man Show
The Catholic Man Show
Promoting the virtuous life.
Adam and David have been best friends for 30 years and love being Catholic, husbands, and fathers. They enjoy whisky, beer, bacon, flamethrowers, St. Thomas Aquinas, virtue, true leisure, and authentic friendship.
The show is typically broken down into 3 segments - A drink, a gear, and a topic.
We are on the Lord's team. The winning side. So raise your glass. #CheerstoJesus
You can support our show by going to www.patreon.com/thecatholicmanshow
Adam and David have been best friends for 30 years and love being Catholic, husbands, and fathers. They enjoy whisky, beer, bacon, flamethrowers, St. Thomas Aquinas, virtue, true leisure, and authentic friendship.
The show is typically broken down into 3 segments - A drink, a gear, and a topic.
We are on the Lord's team. The winning side. So raise your glass. #CheerstoJesus
You can support our show by going to www.patreon.com/thecatholicmanshow
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Jul 1, 2024 • 1h 25min
Reconciliation of the Senses
Adam and David what the virtue of chastity actually means.
In this episode, we discuss:
Bishop Erik Varden's book, Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses
What chastity truly means
Who we are and what we are made for
Importance of examination of conscience
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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Jun 20, 2024 • 1h 3min
Dr. John Cuddeback on Domestic Prudence
BONUS EPISODE THIS WEEK!
This week we showcase one of over 60 audio recordings for our patrons.
Curious about what else is available? Here's a brief list that doesn't include our masterclass courses:
Material:
Identifying your root sins: https://www.patreon.com/posts/24341146
Brochure on how to start a men’s group by TCMS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30862167
How to: Praying the Liturgy of the Hours from the late Deacon John Donnelly: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32679064
Ten part series on the Domestic Church written by Adam, Haylee, David, and Pamela: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43827270
Interviews:
Interview with Mark Hart and Trent Horn: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25006488
Fr. Larry Richards on Confession: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25264474
Jon Leonetti on Sacrifice: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25264474
Jason Evert - Theology of the Body: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25264599
Fr. Dwight Longenecker on Masculinity: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25264599
Sr. Bethany Madonna on Life Issues: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25277499
Steve Pokorny on Beauty in a Pornified Culture: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25300345
Extended talk with Karlo Broussard on Philosophy: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25300504
Archbishop Charles Chaput on Suffering: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25300751
Raymond Arroyo on imagination: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25300907
World Religion, Philosophy, and Seminary with Peter Puelo: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25301304
Matthew Arnold on Virtue: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25301477
Chat with Patrick Coffin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26547141
Andrew Pudewa on John Senior’s book list: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28047834
12 minutes story from Dr. Cuddeback: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28665913
Acts of Reparations with Fr. Donald Calloway: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28944143
20 minute interview with Fr. John Parks: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33826129
Interview with Bishop Thomas Olmsted: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33953298
Dr. Edward Sri on Fatherhood: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34566142
Social Media and the Church with Fr. John Hollowell: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34551676
Interview with Fr. Leo Patalinghug: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35480293
Fr. Cosgrove’s Advice to Adam and David on what to do for your kid’s first communion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37631888
Adam and David’s talks at conferences:
Adam and David talk on “How to be a Catholic man in today’s culture: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26134379
Adam and David’s Authentic Friendship talk given at the Courage Conference in 2019: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29345385
Talk on Priest, Prophet, and King with Fr. Robert Healey: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39420680
Guest Talks:
Dr. Cuddeback talk on Domestic Prudence: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28621338
Dave Van Vickle on Angels, Demons, Ghosts, and Exorcism: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34377446
Men’s Talk by Dr. Edward Sri: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35516257
Men’s Talk by Dave DiNuzzo: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35516692
Men’s Talk by Fr. Leo Patalinghug: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35516965
Men’s Talk by Paul George: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35517397
Clear Creek Monk, Fr. Nesbit, on the topic of mortification: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41874620
Professional Recordings/Audiobooks:
Profession Recording of Uniformity of God’s Will by St. Alphonsus Liguori: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35324681
Professional Recording of a Poem on the Passion of the Lord: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34864248
Professional Recording of St. Louis de Montfort: Praying the Rosary: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36620091
Professional Recording of Pope Leo XIII on the Devotion of the Rosary: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37557226
Professional Recording on Promoting the Devotion of the Most Precious Blood: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38885894
Professional Recording Encyclical of Pope Benedict XV on St. Dominic: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39032547
Professional Recording Audiobook on St. Thomas Aquinas on Kingship: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40919609
Professional Recording on the Bull of Canonization of St. Francis: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42211330
Professional Recording of Casti Connubial: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43221588
Professional Recording of Papal Bull Condemning Freemasonry: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45335625
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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Jun 17, 2024 • 1h 5min
Cycles in Business and the Christian Life
Adam and David talk about the similarities in the business life and the Christian life.
In this episode we discuss:
Junior vs. Senior employees
Unexperienced vs. Experienced Evangelists
Value of Time
Importance of Order
And more…
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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Jun 7, 2024 • 1h 27min
The Juan Song
This is our last week in our studio... so it felt right to bring el producer on air.
In this episode we discuss with Juan:
The impact he has made on the show
How he has seen the show change over the years
What questions Juan has for us
And more...
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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Jun 5, 2024 • 54min
Types of Mary
This week we talk how Mary was prefigured in the Old Testament and revealed in the New Testament
In this episode we discuss:
Typology - what is it and why the new is always greater
The Woman in the Garden of Eden
Bathsheba
The Ark
Rachel
The New Eve
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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May 28, 2024 • 1h 3min
How the Devil Prevents Our Spiritual Advancement
This week we talk about how the devil prevents our spiritual advancement.
In this episode we discuss how the devil can use:
Our past experiences
The news we hear
Objects that strike our senses
Our humor and passions
Useless thoughts and reflections
Vain desires and fears
Some other movement of an unmortified passion
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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May 17, 2024 • 1h 12min
Domestic Virtues in the Glorious Mysteries
What virtues can we learn from the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary?
In this episode we discuss:
We are moving! New studio coming soon
What are the Glorious Mysteries?
What can we learn from them?
How do we incorporate those in our lives?
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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May 9, 2024 • 1h 21min
How Mary Can Make Our Domestic Church Better
It's the month of Mary! Let's talk about the what we can learn from the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary.
In this episode we discuss:
Importance of joy
What is disinterested service?
Obedience
Longanimity
Mary leads men to Jesus
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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May 6, 2024 • 1h 21min
Technology, Power, Work, and Responsibility
This week we talk about technology, power, and responsibility.
In this episode we discuss:
What is power?
Artificial Intelligence
Catholic Answers AI Priest
Meaning of Work
What kind of power we have attained
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Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place
Our new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!
“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory Pine
Home life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.
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Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 45min
Judas never to have been born?, Suffering, Virtue, Purgatory, Integral Good, and Aliens with Fr. Bonaventure Chapman, O.P.
This week we welcome Fr. Bonaventure Chapman, O.P. into the studio because we got some questions... In this episode we discuss: What is longanimity? Would it have been better for Judas to never have been born? Virtue Can people in purgatory pray for us? Should we watch movies that have non-simulated sins in them? And of course... aliensExodus 90 – JOIN USSupport Us on PatreonBecome a Patron! Over 40 interviews, a course with Karlo Broussard, a 10 part series on the domestic church, a course on fitness and virtue by Pat Flynn, and free thank you gifts for supporting the show!Click here to joinJoin Our 2024 Pilgrimage Select International Tours in the best in the business. We are planning on a 2024 pilgrimage. Click here so you won’t miss it.Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy PlaceOur new book is available for pre-order from Ascension Press!“I love this book. It provides wise counsel with beautiful simplicity. So, if you are looking to safeguard your family life from the wiles of the enemy and encourage your spouse and children to become the saints God is calling them to be, this is a book for you.” – Fr Gregory PineHome life can be difficult and busy, and it’s easy to get distracted from the point of it all: raising a family of saints.In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, two married couples share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made.Want to help The Catholic Man Show?By giving us a rating on iTunes, it helps others find the show.Want to say up with The Catholic Man Show? Sign up for our mailing list: Click HereLooking for a prayer to pray with your wife? Check this blog out.Are you getting our emails? Sign up for our newsletter where we give you all bacon content – never spam. SIGN UP HERE:Transcript : Intro: [00:00:00] Cheers. Cheers. Did you click it and have it work? Sort of an oaky afterbirth. What was that? She did tell me to get a beer and some cheese fries over at Eskimo Joe's. That's very nice, lovely. I only hope you feel this way when I'm done. Because I could destroy this night in two seconds. Why is that funny?Well, I think it's a bit funny to be trying to define nothing. Smooth as a bourbon on a summer day. Strong as a peated scotch in the winter night. This is a fair warning. The Catholic Man Show is about to begin. Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burning daylight! Welcome to the Catholic Man Show, we're on the [00:01:00] Lord's team, the winning side, so raise your glass.Adam Adam Minihan: and Anne here, sitting with David Niles in studio, Juan is still not here, as we mentioned last week. Be moved. So he abandoned us, so he won't be here very often, but we have our good friend, father Bonaventure Chapman, Dominican friar, priest of God from up in Washington DC area. That's it. Coming back.We did two, we did two episodes with you last, last, last time you were here. We also done Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: SCOTUS and I think art. Adam Minihan: Art. Yes. And so it's great to have you back. for, thanks for like sorry, I'm fourth to record with us today. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Oh, it's delightful. It's a, I love Oklahoma. It's always nice to visit Tulsa.Friendly people. It's different than the Washington D. C. kind of east coast people. So they're, yeah. David Niles: Thank you. Friendly. Thank you. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: That was a huge compliment for us. Yeah, down to earth. David Niles: I mean, I'm sure that there are some good people. Wonderful people. In D. C. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: I didn't say there were. Yeah, I didn't say there weren't.[00:02:00] I just said they're not good. Yeah. You know, it's like. No, they're just different. They're, look, I'll put it this way. They're not from Connecticut. That's it. The New Englanders are a whole different bag. Now, this is all tongue in cheek, but that's fair enough. Yeah, but yeah, just it's refreshing to actually be with ordinary people sometimes because in DC you just, and you're in David Niles: city living.You meant good looking, I think. That's probably what you meant, but keep going. It's all right. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, fair enough. My humility David Niles: doesn't want to interrupt you. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah, you're doing great. Yeah, I mean, there's there's a lot of guns out here. There's a lot of guns in here. Yeah, so, you know, David Niles: here we go.Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Here we are. David Niles: Guns are almost like currency around here. No, ammo. Ammos, Ammos definitely. Ammos guarantee, yeah. Adam Minihan: So hey guys, we're drinking a Jebsons Bourbon Cask Strength. My mother in law got this for me. It is a bourbon that you can only get in the distillery up in Chicago, Illinois. So it's, it's cask strength.Like I said, it's like, see, almost 65 percent ABV. It is very strong. So we will drink [00:03:00] it very slowly in moderation. Well, we're on the Lord's team. Cheers. Winning side. So raise your glass. David Niles: Cheers to Jesus. Adam Minihan: Cheers. David Niles: It drinks to me like a standard bourbon, like, this is just, this is, this is like, to me it's like, kind of gives you a pow in the face.Well, yeah, it is, like you said, it's, it's strong, it's strong, but the flavors that are there, it's like, yep, that is like classic bourbon. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: It's got heavy spice it seems that in the back, kind of swings around so yeah, it's got a lot of movement, it seems, that, I don't know how to describe bourbon bourbon.But if I were to describe Bourbon. Yes. I would say this has a lot of movement and a lot of spice. Ooh. And I have, I mean, that's, that's probably a horrible way to say it, but that's. David Niles: I like that. I need more movement in my life. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Chicago. That's great. My, my my grandfather, my mother was born in Chicago.My grandfather went to med school in Chicago. My brother did his residency pain fellowship at Rush in Chicago. So I love that. That's a great [00:04:00] city. That's how I really. Doing a pain, did you say a David Niles: pain? Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Pain David Niles: fellowship, yeah. That's there's a lot of, there's a lot of work there, there's a lot of like, funny stuff you can work with.There is, yeah, Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: yeah. He's a specialist in pain surgery, and he was the 101st airborne flight surgeon, Afghanistan, two tours, and then finished residency, and now he's head of anesthesiology. Pain, now he's in charge of pain, yeah. Yep, in charge of pain fellows. So, Adam Minihan: You, you're one of the many, a couple hosts of Godsplaining.Oh, yeah. There's five of us. Yep. Yep. That's right. So what are you what's been going on over there? Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Well, we've got a taping coming up. We've got some retreats. We're doing a, we just got back this started this year doing two person kind of prudent companion retreats. So Dominicans have this. You don't go out.We follow Guston's rule. And Guston always says, whenever you go out, make sure you go. with two or three. I didn't do that in this case, but I guess because you two are prudently companionable already. Yeah. Yeah. This is going really good so far. I'm here [00:05:00] to praise you, not to bury you. And so we started doing, going out to different different parishes and different things would say to Dominicans from the God's point, and we'll do.Talk and then we'll do like a little episode, live episode, kind of break stuff as opposed to like a Q and a type of thing. And it seems to work out well, it's like a live audience, you could say. So it's just with father Gregory pine out in Columbus to do one on the Eucharist on sign and sacrament. We did a day, a day or a day and a half on that, and then we've got a retreat coming up.In the summer, we're doing the sanctifier by Louis Martinez yep. And then, yeah, I think that's the, the current stuff was, I've been kind of spreading out different retreats, days of recollection, and then this kind of our standard guest explaining, live explaining. I haven't, we haven't done object explaining yet.That's still my, I'm still pushing for this. Hmm. Where you have you, you have an interview with just an object like a fire extinguisher, and you ask questions to it, and and then you respond as if it has responded. And it hasn't gone well. It like hasn't, has not, no one's bought this yet.It's a [00:06:00] shame because I think it's, I think it'd be great. I think it'd be really, I'd be fascinated by it. You should David Niles: start object number one, MAGA hat. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah. Yeah, that'll get some stuff. Yeah, a lot of really David Niles: good responses, I feel like, from the MAGA hat. yeah. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: I mean, I mean, so I remember, I remember when I remember when, when, when that happened.And I remember watching, so it's 2016 right, and right before, and he's coming to announce his candidacy. Yeah. And I remember seeing, getting, walking down from that plane to announce this, and he's wearing that hat. And I thought That is the dumbest thing and then literally three seconds later. I said wow I'm Intro: getting one Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: brilliant Like it's just it's just a simple very simple nice You know clear the guy is nice the guy is good at marketing of what I believe I mean like when you ask what do I want?I and you said I say I make make America great again like it's who doesn't want who doesn't want David Niles: America to be great Like hope Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: and change. I don't know change. I don't [00:07:00] know if I want that You like forward. I don't know if I want that. Make america great again. That was just brilliant. I mean who doesn't want that, you know, I Adam Minihan: totally agree.Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah, that was brilliant Adam Minihan: Yeah, so tonight we thought because you know david we love having dominicans on on the show. We love being able to Pick your pick your guys's brain cuz it's like this thing you do you like study and preach, right? Yeah, this is like the things that you do. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah, it's not Adam Minihan: good. I mean too Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: excited here Adam Minihan: Like Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: I keep expectations at a reasonable level on the lower side of things.Remember, I'm just a philosopher Adam Minihan: Well, yeah, Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: that's why I'm not well, I'm not not a theologian. Adam Minihan: Yeah. Yeah, so we just want to like We just have it we have questions that's too much and so like Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah. Adam Minihan: So can I start? Please. Are you David Niles: ready to start? Shall we begin? Yeah, I think, Adam Minihan: I think that'd be David Niles: great. Should we ring a bell?Ding ding. Okay. Oh. So, all of our questions for you today [00:08:00] are un, unprepared. Right. We haven't discussed this. So Some of, just like, for clarity, some of our questions you might not have an answer for. Oh yeah. This might be one of them. Intro: Mm hmm. Yeah, David Niles: great. Do you have, like, is there a Dominican tradition, Easter tradition or anything?Like, do you have a favorite Easter thing? Like, what's the best part about being a Dominican? Oh, Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: that's a great question. Yeah, what is the best, I mean the Pass. Yeah. Jesus, David Niles: next question. It's tough because Jesus, next question. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah, it's tough because the triduum is the really, and that's not Easter, like the triduum is the best part of being a Dominican, I think.It's that, those three, those three days getting up to that, I mean we have You know, you do, we start, we usually use we have a 10 embrace service on Wednesday at the house. So I'm at the house studies teach at the Catholic university across the street in school of philosophy. And but I, so I live with 60, 70 brothers a lot of student brothers and assistant student master there.So I get to be around them and we have a big house. that has a great liturgy [00:09:00] great off choral offices, everything. It's like the, it's, it's a, you know, it's, it's a flagship kind of thing. It's, it's where you'd want your brothers, your Dominicans to be learning because it's, it's just, we can, a lot of our houses have smaller numbers, but the, the big, you know, at the monastery, the kind of the fortress, this is where things get done.So the liturgies are spectacular for the Triduum. And Dominicans, because we have a, we have a sort of, well, one long, long tradition, but two, a kind of penitential tradition. That we do penance as well in that time. We do celebrations as well, as far as I can tell. We do all things well. Sweet. But most things, yeah, yeah.Humility, we don't do well. It's actually known Adam Minihan: worldwide. Humility is known worldwide. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah, that's exactly right. It's the Benedictine's thing that we don't want to, you know, That's theirs, take it off, you know, that's theirs. But you know what, you David Niles: can have humility. Yeah, it's Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: fine. You know, David Niles: yeah, it's fine.We're going to take coolness. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman: Yeah. So we take, so, you know, it's that time you're wearing the, you're wearing the kappa. So right now I'm not wearing the black cape, but they're wearing the kappa for the, for the triduum. It's a lot of silence. We have the [00:10:00] veneration of the cross has these beautiful aspects where we, we all get in a row and you, you have to go genuinely, you bow like three times in a row and finally kiss the cross.So you're, you're all in a row with each other. Doing this in pattern you're just you know stuck in this and also the the early offices my favorite offices of the year are morning prayer on holy saturday and on good friday because the The tabernacle is empty. All the the candles are gone and we've got a big, you know chapel everything just it doesn't feel Right.There's no water in the In a holy water font. You just go in and everything's, everything's pared down. So all the liturgical chants get clipped, in a sense. It's like nothing finishes. Yeah. And that just brings you into it because the, the liturgy is meant to be the, you know, the work of God, you could say, but it's, it's him doing the work.Right, and I get a sense of that in the Dominican tradition especially because the liturgies are well worked over so that if you're just there Then you can't but come closer to Christ [00:11:00] Excellent Adam Minihan: So we're here with Father Bonaventure Chapman Dominican priest And we will be asking him I Intro: don't know how many more questions we're going to get to How many more do David Niles: you have in your back pocket?I don't know I have not counted Alright Alright, we'll Intro: be right back I forgot about this. I gotta tell my, yeah. I'm telling my answers, that's right, I forgot about this. David Niles: Do you feel like God is calling you to go on a pilgrimage? 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