Ep16 – Suicide Prevention: Spirituality & Science
June 15, 2018 by admin
Filed under Blog, Catherine's Column, cultural manliness, Evangelization, Faith, For Women, Parenting, Podcast
Dave is joined by his wife Catherine, a Licensed Professional Counselor to discuss suicide prevention. This episode is intended to help listeners gain information about helping their loved ones who might be suicidal, or if they themselves are struggling. Know that you are loved and are good! (This was recorded in 2014 in the wake of the suicide of Robin Williams, and remastered and edited for the podcast in light of recent public celebrity suicides.)
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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.
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!
