The Catholic Men's Podcast

Merry Christmas! Table of Contents: 00:00 The Poor Little Pine Tree 04:30 The Christmas Truce 16:12 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39:16 A Child's Christmas in Wales 58:00 The Count and the Chmney Sweep 01:15:17 Beautiful Christmas Stories for Young and Old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838 My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123

This true story revolves around the Nazi invasion of Norway and $9 million worth of gold bullion, which must be protected from the invaders at all costs — it has to be shipped to America for safe keeping. In fact, the crafty Norwegian resistance managed to smuggle out every gold brick on the ship “Bomma,” which safely docked in Baltimore on June 28, 1940. When the police escort to the bank asked the captain how they managed to pull it off, he said that Norwegian children had transported the gold bars hidden on their sleds, right under the noses of the German sentries and buried them in the snow on the beach. These dropsites were marked by a snowman to be picked up by the crew of the Bomma the next day. My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

This true story revolves around the Nazi invasion of Norway and $9 million worth of gold bullion, which must be protected from the invaders at all costs — it has to be shipped to America for safe keeping. In fact, the crafty Norwegian resistance managed to smuggle out every gold brick on the ship “Bomma,” which safely docked in Baltimore on June 28, 1940. When the police escort to the bank asked the captain how they managed to pull it off, he said that Norwegian children had transported the gold bars hidden on their sleds, right under the noses of the German sentries and buried them in the snow on the beach. These dropsites were marked by a snowman to be picked up by the crew of the Bomma the next day. My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

I’m not very happy with the way this story ends, but I’m enthralled with the ingenious story structure and attention to detail in description. It’s so well done, that as I read, I can almost smell the Fall and see the full moon over the church that they visit in the story. It’s the perfect time of year to read it and I hope you enjoy the ride, because it’s been in the back of my head during all the years I’ve run this podcast. I only like it because it reminds me of the statues of knights that I saw in Europe. My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

Reading a story from Sea Wolf: The Daring Exploits of Navy Legend John D. Bulkeley, by William Breuer. I absolutely love this man's spirit of adventure and attention to duty! My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

I wasn't sure what this story was about before I started reading it for the podcast, but I ended up enjoying it quite a lot. Perfect for young reader just starting out. I wouldn't have kept any of the little idols in the story, just saying. My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

This presentation is the culmination of 8 months of study about Saint John Bosco. It was given to a group of 75 faithful Catholics gathered at America Needs Fatima Headquarters in Pennsylvania. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel for three stories a week about Don Bosco, by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/@donboscostories Here's a playlist with every episode done so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUJgIDS7Tk&list=PLlz7a7mdnm7TR9khPoZa9EgRtGa7u3GYe God bless!

This is a piece of Russian folklore that caught my fancy way back in 2016 when I started the podcast and I have been meaning to perform it ever since. I don't know why I liked it so much. Maybe because it's so much better than some of the lame tales we were raised on. It's original, it's interesting and a bit crazy. Oh and by the way, there's a hundred more Prince Ivan stories in Russia besides this one. Enjoy... My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

This is the author's introduction to this chilling true story: Carl Ethan Akeley is considered the “Father of Modern Taxidermy, a title not lightly earned. I first saw his work in New York’s American Museum of Natural History in 1947, a small boy in hot flannel, dripping ice cream over his Buster Browns in the July heat. His bronzes of lion spearing, taken from his adventures with the Nandi of British East Africa, are still my favorite sculptures on earth. Perhaps I always related to Akeley because he was an American who proved that my own dreams of going to Africa were not in vain. Akeley, at heart a sculptor, caught better than anyone else the action and reality of his still-unspoiled Africa. Yet he paid a very high admission fee for his exposure, killing a wounded leopard with his bare hands and being left for dead in the icy heights of equatorial mountains after being savaged by an elephant. At last, in 1926, Carl Akeley paid his final dues for his lifestyle, dying of pneumonia on the high, chillingly wet slopes of the remote Virunga volcanoes of what was then the Belgian Congo, where he had collected specimens of the mountain gorilla for the museum. Should you walk into the Museum of Natural History in New York City, you will see a magnificent diorama of the mountain gorilla, which actually is more than a memory to Akeley. It is an exact depiction of his grave, in the saddle between Mount Karasimbi and Mount Mikeno. The peaks in the background, behind the spot where his wife laid his tired and African-worn bones, are the volcanoes of Nyamlagira and Nyiragongo. In creating his works for the museum, Akeley was the most generous of men, naming the display area after his close friend Theodore Roosevelt. He also dedicated his only book, In Brightest Africa (1920), to the ex-president. The years have a way of saying thanks in kind: the Roosevelt Hall is now the Akeley Hall, and small boys like me from around the world still thank him." -- Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in a Lonely Land. My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838 The following music was used for this media project: Music: The Fragility Of Tenderness by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6723-the-fragility-of-tenderness License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

For Father's Day, 2023, I decided to put up the very best performance of Robert Louis Stevenson's, "Treasure Island." I relive so many happy childhood memories while listening to this version. My website: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-catholic-men-s-podcast--6075123 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838 The following music was used for this media project: Music: Puppet Piano Waltz by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8417-puppet-piano-waltz License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Ever since my friend, Mr. Evan Olwell sent me this story, I haven't been able to get it out of my head. It's haunting really. He sent me a video from the criminally underrated YouTube Channel: Jake Evans Storyteller. Here is the video so you can show him some support. A short walk south of the village, following the footpath along the banks of the Glaslyn leads to Beddgelert's most famous historical feature; 'Gelert's Grave'. According to legend, the stone monument in the field marks the resting place of 'Gelert', the faithful hound of the medieval Welsh Prince Llewelyn the Great. I also tell the story of Greyfriars Bobby as an afterthought. I've been meaning to tell that legend for a long time. My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838 Picture for thumbnail: "Gelert" by Leo Reynolds https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/38639820906 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

This is the astonishing account of a strange occurence in Mayfield, Kentucky by Rose Wilder Lane, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

This is a radio play we did all the way back in 2015 for a Call to Chivalry Summer Camp. For more information about this miraculous event in history please read this excellent article: https://www.tfp.org/don-pelayo-and-the-reconquista-of-spain/ Me and the boys had some good times recording this one and I hope you have equally as good of a time listening to it! My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

Taken from William J. Long's book, "How Animals Talk." The evolutionists have claimed this book, but I think it testifies more to creationism than anything else. It poses a lot of questions about animals that scientists still have no answer for even to this day, which is amazing, as this book was written in 1919 -- over a hundred years ago. I stayed up all night reading his questions about animals, the answers to which in my head spelled out: G-O-D. My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090924548838

A story taken from "Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself." You are in Cairo, the year is 1940. You have a treasure to find in a secret tomb... if only you can keep your hide intact and stay one step ahead of the galley of rogues and madmen who want you dead. My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Email me at: michaelsword7@gmail.com

The Joyce-Armstrong Fragment was found in the field which is called Lower Haycock, lying one mile to the westward of the village of Withyham, upon the Kent and Sussex border. It was on the 15th September last that an agricultural labourer, James Flynn, perceived a briar pipe lying near the footpath which skirts the hedge in Lower Haycock. A few paces farther on he picked up a pair of broken binocular glasses. Finally, among some nettles in the ditch, he caught sight of a flat, canvas-backed book, which proved to be a note-book with detachable leaves, some of which had come loose and were fluttering along the base of the hedge. These he collected, but some, including the first, were never recovered, and leave a deplorable hiatus in this all-important statement. The note-book was taken by the labourer to his master, who in turn showed it to Dr. J. H. Atherton, of Hartfield. This gentleman at once recognized the need for an expert examination, and the manuscript was forwarded to the Aero Club in London, where it now lies. I will now give the narrative exactly as it stands, beginning at page three of the blood-soaked note-book... My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Email me at: michaelsword7@gmail.com Attribution for music used: Water Lily Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Enjoy three Irish legends edited and compiled from ancient literature by W.B. Yeats. The last one was the first time in my life, I ever got truly scared while reading a story on the podcast. It was pretty late at night and all but still, I was absolutely convinced that the Banshee devil existed. Maybe it does... My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Email me at: michaelsword7@gmail.com

Of how a certain medieval bishop is set upon by two mysterious visitors in one day: one holy, the other, unholy. A chronicle from the Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voraigne about the three tantalizing riddles one pilgrim told the other. Can you answer the befuddling questions from this saint's story? My website: https://catholic-mens-podcast.pinecast.co/ Email me at: michaelsword7@gmail.com

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