The TrueManhood Podcast Episode 9 – Porn Addiction: Part 1
April 16, 2018 by admin
Filed under Blog, Evangelization, manliness, Parenting, Podcast, pornography, Virtue
In this episode on pornography, part 1, Dave DiNuzzo opens up about his porn addiction, and a bit of how he overcame it, what porn is, why it’s bad, and how to help ourselves and our kids. Watch for part 2 coming soon, and watch for the upcoming episode on “The 5 Step Plan.” TrueMan up!
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The TrueManhood Podcast – Episode 1! “What TrueManhood is All About”
The FIRST episode from The TrueManhood Podcast by Dave DiNuzzo Sr!
In this episode, Dave dives in to what TrueManhood is… from the definition of the words, to the ins-and-outs of the ministry that has been serving the Church for over a decade. TrueManhood is emulating Jesus Christ (True God and TrueMan).
The files will be downloadable from iTunes very soon. Watch social media for updates. Please like and subscribe, and share with the men in your life!
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Men’s Formation Groups
October 25, 2010 by admin
Filed under Blog, cultural manliness, Faith, manliness, pornography, Virtue
Interested in joining a men’s formation group? Sometimes they are referred to as a “small group”. (If you are interested, I can connect you with a group in your area or teach you how to start one on your own.)
If you are in the Colorado Springs area, a new group will be meeting weekly. Any man is welcome to join, at anytime. The format of the meetings follows the highly tested and proven model created by The King’s Men. No matter what stage of life a man is in, no matter his education or experience, no matter his marital status or career, a formation group is good for every man. A small formation group is intended to be multifaceted. Men may experience some or all of the following from being in a small group: friendship, accountability, challenge, spiritual fortitude, fraternity, strength, encouragement, purpose, virtue!
The meetings typically go something like this:
- Group prayer – the Rosary is suggested. 15-20 minutes.
- Discussion based on a masculine resource. 30-45 minutes. (Masculine resources might be “Boys to Men: The Transforming Power of Virtue”, “Be a Man!”, an encyclical/papal letter, “Signposts” or something similar.) The discussion time is facilitated by a leader and kept on-time by the time keeper. The discussion is not a “teaching moment”, but a formation moment where each man has time to share if he so desires.
- The 4-Cs. Commit, Confess, Challenge, Confirm. Each week, each man makes a commitment to something he is going to do over the next week. The next week, he comes back and “confesses” how he did with his commitment. This process continues each week. If a man needs to be challenged, another man may do so. If a man deserves to be confirmed, another man may do so. 30 minutes.
- Closing prayer, including each man’s intentions. 5 minutes.
- Total meeting should be 1.5 hrs or less.
Groups should be kept to no more than 10-12 men. Once a group grows too large, it should be split into two separate groups. This is done so that each man has the ability to share, seek guidance, be formed and grow personally. If a group is too large, it stifles men’s ability to grow.
For more information on formation groups, especially the Colorado Springs group, contact me at Dave@TheKingsMen.org.
Spiritual Help for our Heroes – Frontline Faith Project
Recently, I came across an awesome apostolate called Frontline Faith. Visit them HERE. In short, what they do is supply our service men and women, serving in deployed locations, with Catholic content on mp3 players.
“The FRONTLINE FAITH™ Project delivers MP3 players preloaded with spiritual content, especially as it pertains to military service, to members of our armed forces currently deployed or returning from deployment, with special emphasis on injured troops and troops stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan.”
What will you do for the soul of one soldier? Please support Frontline Faith and their work by donating $24 (or more). To donate, click HERE. It takes people with vision to serve those in need. Our deployed soldiers, as well as those who have been or are going to be deployed, need our prayers, support and acts of kindness. They sacrifice their well-being, their comfort, their families, their children, their spouse and sometimes their lives so that we can be free. To our service men and women of all of the branches of the military, thank you!
Home of the free, because of the brave.
Cheri, Sheila and the rest of the team at Frontline Faith… keep up the great work!
TrueMan up!
The Fight – Clear and Present Danger
I write about “The Fight” a good bit on this site. I urge men everywhere to realize that we are in a battle for souls. Most of the time, the battle is spiritual – fighting demons, spiritual unrest and concupiscence. Sometimes, however, the battle is physical. In this video, the persecution of Christians shows us that the battle is a clear and present danger. The persecution of Christians in America is far from as brutal as these persecutions of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria, but still real. In no way am I attempting to compare the two forms of persecution – clearly, the are different. However, there’s nothing to say that they can’t become as real in America as they are in other parts of the world.
If you can’t view the video, click HERE for the link.
Men, we MUST first learn what it means to be a man, then jump into action! We are called to action! Without TrueMen who step up, lead and fight, mankind will continue to suffer. We cannot sit around and wait for this sort of hatred to permeate our culture any more. Step up and do something! How, you ask? How can I possibly help these poor, defenseless people in Africa? Start at home, so that it doesn’t happen here. I’ve been known to joke on occasion about a “Muslim Invasion”, that I want to be armed and ready to respond to this sort of thing. It’s not funny any more. How ready are you if this were to happy in the US?
A note about the traffic on my site: in February 2010, my site was visited by people living in 36 various foreign countries. 6 of those 36 countries were African countries. This is more real for them than me.
Manliness in the Modern Church
Saturday morning, I spoke at a local Men’s Breakfast. The room was full. The breakfast was hot (and tasty). It was good to see Catholic men coming together to join in brotherhood and to be inspired by a message. The ages ranged from a young teen boy all the way to some wise-men in their 80’s. 95% of the men in the room were fathers. I spoke about “Manliness in the Modern Church”.
The reality of it all is that our Church in America has been overrun by the feminist movement of the 1960’s. The sexual revolution “revolutionized” the decay of gender roles… and in the Church, it spread like wild fire. Manly women and feminine men (<– oxymorons, I know). What we see now is a Church where men are overly passive (if they go at all) and the brunt of the work is accomplished because of women. It sets a terrible example for our families; the children within the Church don’t understand what a man is. The boys go astray because they have no idea what it means to be a man and the girls follow after them… that’s what society tells them is normal and good.
The purpose of my talk was NOT AT ALL to bash women or to say that women shouldn’t do anything in the Church… on the contrary. [Without women in the Church who saw a wide-open-gap that needed filled, our Church would be in a much worse position than it already is.] The purpose was to call men to be men, to light a fire in their souls to live VIRTUOUS lives! To step up and LEAD! To FIGHT and DEFEND the Church, her people (women and children especially) and their own spirituality! Christ didn’t ask the apostles to sit around and wait for people to ask them what they believed. He commissioned them to action – “Come and Follow Me” – “Be fishers of men”.
The talk was well received and I think that it inspired these men to go forth and live out a virtuous, manly life. TrueManhood!
Man up!
