Spiritual WARFARE is starting： The Knights of JPII
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Summary
Daniel Potvin is the founder of the Knights of St. John Paul II, a movement that has spread to 15 countries and has as its chaplain, Bishop Joseph Strickland, who I have employed in my hometown for the last few years. Daniel Potvin talks about how he got started in this movement and how he came back to the faith.
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I mean, have some excitement, the fact that the saints long to live in these times.
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Hey, my friends, welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show. We're going to try
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something different today. You know, we've been encouraged to do longer form discussions with
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people so that you can really get into the discussion and kind of like Joe Rogan type
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of style. We're going to try that, see what you think, let us know. Today, we're going
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to be talking to Daniel Potvin. Daniel Potvin is the guy who founded a new movement in church
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called the Knights of St. John Paul II. You can go check him out, Knights of St. John Paul
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II, the Roman numerals.org. And you'll see the website there. But I wanted to give you a glimpse
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into the man, Lumberjack, by the way, who began this movement, which has now spread
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to 15 countries, which has as his chaplain, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and which I've employed
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in my hometown for the last few years. It's been super powerful. It is definitely something
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to take on. But I want to give you a little glimpse into the man that was inspired to start
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Daniel Potvin, thank you so much for joining us. God bless you.
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So, let's get into this right from the beginning. Tell us about yourself. You are, I understand,
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a revert. So, you were born Catholic, but then came back to the faith. Tell us about your upbringing
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and then where you went off the rails before you came back.
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So, I was brought up in a family, seven kids. My parents, we went to church, went to Catholic
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school until the last one was closed down. I was in third grade. My parents were devout,
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I'd say, but we didn't pray the rosary in the home. My parents took a trip to Medjugorje in 87,
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came back home, started praying the rosary every day. I would have been in my early 20s. And my dad
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had left with a chronic back issue. And he came back fully healed. Okay. So, it's interesting because
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at that time, only one of my siblings out of seven was going to church.
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And not, and I certainly wasn't one of them. I believed it. We all believed dad was healed.
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It didn't seem to have an effect on us. It certainly didn't have an effect on me because
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I just kept running down this road of ruin, living a crazy single life with my friends.
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Um, worked very hard, very successful. What were you doing at the time?
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Well, family business. Um, my dad had gone bankrupt in 84. And then me and one of my brothers
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and one of my sisters took it over. My dad managed to pull this thing off where at the auction,
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another businessman bought it at the auction, then sold it back to us kids. Started building
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it back up. And you have the lifestyle, but then you start having money to further it. Okay. Um,
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so it just got from bad to worse. Okay. Somewhere around 1990, I really started feeling empty inside.
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Like, like, real bad. I had everything a single man of 25 years old could look for. Company was worth
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over a million dollars at the time. So on paper, I was actually a millionaire. Okay. Um, brand new
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vehicles, Friday, Saturday night, you know, any one of three, four different girls to call up to go out.
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Um, so I had everything, but I w I was noticing more and more, I was dark and dead inside.
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I remember now I, it was July of 1992 and I had a, we had a house at the, we had bought through the
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business and it was right next to the business. And I had three roommates that I had all grown up
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with all of them. They had come back from college and we lived in this bachelor house, all hard workers,
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different trades, different trades, but crazy wild. And my mom gives me this book and it's on
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interviews with the children in Medjugorje. And so it was pretty cool because the author is
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interviewing these kids, asking him questions. And I'll be honest with you, growing up, I,
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I never read a book. I went through grammar school, high school without reading a book.
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And I'm just eating this book up. And I remember I was sitting at the kitchen table in our,
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our house and my roommates are in the other room watching TV. And this question comes up,
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the author was having trouble understanding how God, um, can condemn us to hell, right?
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And Visca said, the blessed mother said that we actually judge ourselves.
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And that even while you're alive, if you close your eyes and look inside, you'll know where you're
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going. And so I'm sitting there, I had to get to the table. Yeah, I laugh now, but I scared the heck
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out of me. Okay. I closed my eyes and I went, I'm going to hell. And I get up and I go walk in
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in the other room, get the attention of my roommates. They were John, John and John, right? And I said,
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listen to this. I, and then I said, I just did it. Like if I die now, I'm going to hell.
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A week later, I was on a plane to Medjugorje. Okay. Because over that week I realized I am so
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enslaved to sin, right? On several fronts. And I must've started reading the Bible during that week
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too. And, you know, St. Paul said about, you know, being chained, the slavery of sin. And I said,
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I can't break that here, but I know there's miracles going on over there.
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Because you washed you with your dad. Yeah. And, and so that's where I'm going.
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Now I called, they were booked. We'll put you on a waiting list. I get a call a few days before
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they leave and there was an opening. Okay. So I went with this beautiful nun out of Boston,
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Sister Bargrip, and just completely changed me.
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Right. I gave up everything. I, I came back home. It was in August. I think it was even during the
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Feast of August, the Assumption. Came back home. I didn't want to go out. All I wanted to do was pray
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the rosary, start a prayer group, like was asked. So I started a prayer group at my parents' house,
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which was a big house. Pretty soon we got 20, 30 people one, one night a week praying the rosary.
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Right. And all of a sudden I'm thinking about, well, my family, how big the family is in the,
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in the young people in the family, not my siblings, but it's interesting. And I, this is true. I didn't
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wait until I went to Medjugorje to go to confession. Okay. Cause I said, I'm getting on an airplane.
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Right. I went down the church and I had made a good confession. Right. And all the numbers just had
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zeros at the end, all the sins. Well, how many times? Well, just had a couple of zeros. And so I'm
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good. Two of my roommates are lapsed Catholics like me live in the same kind of life. The third one is
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an atheist. Only one of my siblings, my younger sister is going to church. Now, sister Margaret,
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she said in Medjugorje, the grace is most powerful at the time of the apparition.
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And that's when you want to have your bucket of petitions, right? So I'm praying for my siblings.
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I'm praying for my roommates. I'm praying for any number of things. I get back home. Two of my
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sisters went back to church while I was gone. My two roommates had gone to confession and gone back
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to church. The third roommate started asking me questions, talking about becoming Catholic,
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Catholic, the atheist. Okay. He was, he was brought into the church a year later. This is the
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right. And then that just the prayer group. And then that just got me on a roll because it was
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just, it was affecting everybody around. And then I'm like, I want to go back. I want to go back
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at Christmas time just to thank our lady, right? So I go back at Christmas time and, uh, we're at a
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talk with Father Yozo and the church is like standing room only packed. So I'm in the way back of the
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church and there's this big statue of the blessed mother at the back. And my back's up against her
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statue. She's facing the front of the church, but her feet are high. They start at about four feet,
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right? And I look beside me and there's this young woman standing beside me afterwards outside bump
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into her and we're chatting. Okay. Now I would say probably October of that year prior to this trip,
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I had been running around because I'm like, all right, now God's got me on the right track. What
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am I going to do with my life? So, so I just started going to religious orders. Ones I heard were
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sound Franciscans, this group, the Marian fathers in Stockbridge and checking out call to vocation.
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There was one night in October and I'm kneeling down because one of the messages in Medjugorje was
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you should set up an altar in your house where you have a crucifix, you know, you have a blessed
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candle of holy Bible. And I would do my prayers there every night. And I'm talking to the blessed
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mother from the heart. You know, I'm like, you know, I'm checking out vocation, this and that,
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but really what I'd like to do is I'd like to be married. Right. I didn't understand how discernment
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works. This was early on. I said, I, I just like to meet a good woman. Okay. Well, it turned out that
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woman I was standing next to in the back of the church. We, I never, I was looking for the whole
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time in Medjugorje at Christmas time, never saw her again until I'm at the airport getting ready to
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leave. Right. I'm getting ready to leave. And I'm having a cup of coffee in these, a young guy and a
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young woman come over and sit down with me. They're both from England. And one of the things on this
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trip, I was talking, I was praying about was something for the young people in the area.
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Right. To bring them into the faith. They sit down and here it is. The woman who was standing beside me
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and her friend, Jonathan, who everybody called nod. They sit down and they start chatting with me
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about this youth program in England. That's now worldwide. It's called youth 2000. Right.
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I'm like, this is exactly what I'm looking for. So they give me the name. She gives,
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Jane gives me the name of the woman in the United States out of Texas. Then they get up to go their
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flights. Right. And it's not like here in the States and England or in Medjugorje. I forget which
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was the city we flew out of. But you, you walk out on what they call the tarmac. It's not blacktop.
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It's tarmac. And then you climb up the stairs into the plane. And we're on the second floor in the
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airport. And there they go. I'm into railing. I'm like, so Dan, you're just going to let her walk
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out. You don't even have her phone number. Right. So I go running down the stairs. Yeah. Just like you
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seeing the commercial, I go running to the door before they get out. And I'm like, could I have
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your phone number? I want to, I want to know more about this youth 2000 stuff. Right. Anyway,
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she becomes my future wife. We have six kids. Um, she's a wonderful woman. She homeschooled the kids.
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Uh, my business burned down in 2012 on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which was a statue I kept
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in the office. And you meant literally burned. Literally burned down. But my wife and I had been
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doing, cause building up the company had built up a lot, a lot of data and business was getting very,
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very difficult. Like most years we lost money in the stress level, you know, with 40 employees. And
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I just wasn't having fun anymore, you know? And so we had started doing that 30 day no beat of the
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St. Joseph to get out of debt. Well, when we started it like two years before, I had $3.5 million debt.
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And by the time of the fire, it was down to $1.3 million. Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes on the Feast of
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Our Lady of Lourdes, the whole plant burned down. Okay. A month later, I had just enough insurance to
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pay everything off. A month later, I was debt free. Oh, wow. Now, and we all hear this, right?
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You pray for something, you don't always know how God's going to answer it.
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A lot of people would see that as a kick in the gut. At the first, did you?
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It was an emotional thing, cause I had been working at that plant since I was six years old. My dad
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would take me every Saturday morning. I started sweeping the floor. Then you'd move up, move up,
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move up, move up. It was very emotional. But then the following day, my sister comes up to me. She
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shows me the insurance policy. She also shows me because, you know, there were five fire departments
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from five towns. This was a massive fire. And with everybody in the office didn't burn down. So there
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was a lot of people in and out of the office all day long. The fire started at four o'clock in the
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morning from a car accident. They had a power surge go back. And the firemen were there till nine
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o'clock the next day at night. Somebody must have bumped in and knocked the statue off. I knew it was
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a statue of our blessed mother. I didn't particularly know it was statue of our lady of lords. Well, the
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next day when my sister is, you know, helping figure things out, this and that, she's like, Dan, do you
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know what? This is a statue of our lady of lords. And she said, today is the feast of our lady of
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lords. Right. So yeah, yeah. And within short amount of time, it became clear. It was a blessing.
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The stress was gone immediately. Um, and I had a little extra insurance money. So I'm like,
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I always liked working in the woods, cutting trees. So I bought a used machine and, uh,
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just went out logging full time. You know, Jane and I went on to have six children,
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three are now married and third grandchild's on the way. A little girl, I understand.
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So I already have two grandsons. Now you lost some children along the way as well?
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Yes. Between Therese and Joseph, my wife had two miscarriages. One was a boy and one was a girl.
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So we actually have eight, two in heaven. And unfortunately I, I, I forget about them. Like,
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like I don't even, I should call on them more to pray for the family, you know, and, and their
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intercession because they're, they're there already. Pope Pius XI said, men must look for
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at lifefunder.com slash Christ is King. Now, you know, an incredible assortment of priests and
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religious. Is that all from your time of going around to these different orders to try and
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see about your vocation or? That's part of it. Um, but when I got back from Medjugorje the first time
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I brought a priest in, I had the company consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary under the title of
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Our Lady of Guadalupe. Like, cause I think within the first week getting back, I got ahold of one of
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Dan Lynch's books, which actually he wrote in that one book he wrote about St. Louis de Montfort,
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Fatima, Father Gobi. Oh, Our Lady of Guadalupe was in there. So I had the company consecrated and I
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said to the Blessed Mother, look at if there's any religious orders that need lumber, just send them my
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way. So I started hearing from groups all over. They just came out of the woodwork, including a
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priest up in New Hampshire with a camp for fathers and boys. That was an exciting time, I'll tell you,
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because I got to meet all these different priests. The business was building though, and my dad was
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getting where he wanted to step back. So this worked really good because I'd send dad to go meet with
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these groups. And once the lumber started going, check it out, see how things are going, you know?
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And so he got to, he got to spend a lot of time with, with, with these orders and stuff. And that
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was good for him. He likes to chat and talk and meet people. And, and I think he really, really enjoyed
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that all the way down to Virginia with Human Life International. You know, in fact, Father Paul
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Marx, he came to our office twice at the sawmill, which was pretty cool. You know, I don't know if I
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ever got down there to see the finished building, but that was a big project. So we were sending tractor
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trailer loads of wood down there. Oh, amazing. We were, we were in that building for many years.
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Really? Yeah. Like I said, had an office inside the HLI building for many, many years. It's a funny thing
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because most people don't believe in sort of instantaneous conversions, but yours seems pretty
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instantaneous. Yeah. Like when you came back, you had all these, you said you were in slavery
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to all sorts of things. Oh, it just was gone. Gone. Like, I guess you had a huge hunger right at
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the beginning. Prayer life never left you. You just kept that up every day or. Oh yeah. And I think
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that's the thing too, right? Cause I, I wear them today. The last time I was in Medjugorje was 2019
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and the big message in Medjugorje. And I know there's a lot of controversy out there, but
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the main part of the message is your five stones to fight against your Goliath. Daily rosary,
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monthly confession, fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays, daily scripture, Eucharistic adoration.
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With those five stones, you can defeat your Goliath. So while I'm in Medjugorje, immediately
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I started doing all five. Sure. So the chains were broke, but I think, I think it's these
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five chains that do the breaking. I mean, I believe in instantaneous conversions, but there's
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work got to be done too. Yeah. It hasn't all, I'll be honest, it hasn't all been, cause I'm
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one of those people that, you know, I can forget, right. I've had some huge miracles in my life
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and I can forget. Right. Um, I remember there was a famous priest and he said he was very popular
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throughout the United States. He said, every person at one point in their life, at one time
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or another has been the prodigal son. And when I heard him say that, I'm like, yeah. And some of
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us have been the prodigal son three, four times, right. Get comfy back in the father's house and
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then slip out the back door and get back into trouble again. So yeah, yeah. I, you know, I've
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had my ups and downs. So tell us about at least one of those miracles. If you're able to,
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I got a cousin up in Canada, up in Quebec, Sherbrooke area. And her daughter was diagnosed
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with leukemia. Okay. And she's like 12 years, 10, 12 years old. And I'm getting ready for my trip
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and she's in the hospital in intensive care. Most of my relatives in Canada speak French. The younger
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ones can speak English, but my dad, my mom speak fluent Canadian French. And so I said, dad, you call
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Anita, tell her I'm going to be in Medjugorje. Tell her to tell her daughter on me that. And I figured
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out the time change. I'll be in the church during the apparition and I'm going to bring her name is
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Roxanne. I'm going to lift her up in my intention. Okay. So they knew the time back in Canada.
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I come back home. That little girl was completely cured and she saw a bright light with a woman,
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a beautiful woman. And she was healed. She drew a picture of it. This is just what my relatives in
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Canada need because they've all fallen away from the church, except my old uncle, John, right? He's
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faithful, but the rest of them have all, and it's a big clan up there in Canada. And, uh, sure enough,
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the following summer, we're up there for some of that. Nobody went back to church. Nobody's doing
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anything. And I pulled them all aside and I'm like, you know, that miracle wasn't just for her.
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So that was a big miracle. Um, I mean, there's a lot more, but you know, I can forget. It's nice to
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talk about it because how I could compare it to is, is the Jews coming out of Egypt and all the wonders
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and the miracles they just came through. And then things start to get a little bit tough
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and they forget. What inspired you to start the night's jump of second? I think it was an
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inspiration that started, um, from an experience I had at Mont Saint-Michel in 1997, um, which was a
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very powerful experience. I was there for world youth day. I was a chaperone. And then I had my wife
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scheduled me a couple of days on my own. So I could be, be alone after a rough week at a world
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youth day chaperoning. And I'd always wanted to go to Mont Saint-Michel. So I went there. I had a
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powerful experience. And then a couple of years later, I started thinking about the idea of,
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I guess I, I put it back to that. It's not like it came to me there or anything,
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but it was a few years after that, that like this idea of getting men together,
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men to pray, holy men, you know, there's examples throughout history. There's Joan of Arc.
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You know, I grew up watching that movie all the time. I would have loved to fight in her army,
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right? Along with every other man in France wanted to, um, but, but she took broken, sinful,
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let's face it. After 70 years of war, the men of France were beaten down. The English had three
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quarters of the country. Their towns had been ravished. They'd be lost battle after battle after
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battle. Kind of like where we are now. Okay. God sends her. She's able to inspire an entire nation.
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But, but the concept of, of, of men, right. Um, going out and, and battling against evil. It started
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growing a few years after that. Um, it started taking a form in the early two thousands, um, to
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where I actually wrote up some stuff, but then I got kicked in the head pretty good and, uh, went
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through a very dark time in my life for two, three years. Came out of that shelved everything, just,
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you know, practicing my faith and everything like that. And then around 2015,
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it started gnawing at me again. And so I organized a non-denominational group
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in a nearby city. It's a small city, 12,000 people, but it's coming from my town. It's huge. 800 people,
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right. So, and non-denominational. We even had a few guys joined and there was 30 guys within like
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three weeks. We brought prayer into it because I started it. So we would say in our father,
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hail Mary and a glory be and the Protestant guys put up with it. Um, but was more about, um,
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building community, learning basic skills that had been forgotten gardening. Like one of the young
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guys had joined his, his family owned a 600 acre farm, right? So we started a quarter acre garden
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there and all the guys would show up and, you know, start learning these skills. It was a lot of
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fun. I did bring into it though, cause it was at that time I came across that ancient prayer to St.
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Joseph, which is on the inside cover of the nights. Tradition says it goes back to 50 AD and there's all
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these promises for praying it, caring it, um, just carrying it on your person. And tradition says
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that the Pope actually gave a copy of it to one of the Habsburgs that was going into battle. Charles,
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I think his name was in 1500. And one of the promises is you won't get defeated in battle.
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Hmm. I kind of like that promise. Okay. Uh, no poison will take effect on you. Um, you will not die
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in fire. You will be not captured by an enemy. A lot of great promises. I made copies of that actually
00:28:29.640
and gave them to all the men in this non-denominational group. And I said, just at least put it in your
00:28:35.840
wallet. Okay. Now things like this happen, you know, trying to do something outside of the box
00:28:44.620
here. It fell apart within a year. And, you know, but even while it was going, I was like,
00:28:52.060
this isn't Catholic enough. You know what I mean? It's just, it's definitely lacking. That was gnawing.
00:29:00.060
It was building. And then I decided to bring my two oldest boys on this trip. My wife had planned
00:29:08.480
to Medjugorje. She didn't go, but she organized it for the church. So our two deacons and their wives
00:29:13.180
went and it was about 14. I was, I took my two oldest son, James and John Paul. And while it was
00:29:21.260
there, they had named the main street in Medjugorje now, it's named after John Paul II. Right.
00:29:30.560
Um, cause I had a different name in mind back in 2000, 2001. One of the things I was praying
00:29:37.660
for, right? Bringing my big bucket with me to Medjugorje. I was, I was like, well, my kids
00:29:44.020
are almost all grown up and out of the house. And so I'm like, well, bless a mother. What mission
00:29:50.080
do you have for me going forward? Does the Lord have for me going forward? There must be some
00:29:56.020
mission. I've been involved in youth 2000. I've been involved in this, that, and the other thing.
00:30:00.800
What mission? Nice was not on my thought, but when we got back home, Deacon Bruce, you know,
00:30:11.120
he liked me coming down to the church once a week to have a coffee with him and, uh, discuss things.
00:30:17.040
And he knew for the last two years, I'd been writing stuff down on pieces of scratch paper
00:30:22.140
about a group of men's nights. Now we're back from Medjugorje. And he's like, when are you going
00:30:28.800
to start putting that stuff together? And every time I saw him, he was just like hammering on me.
00:30:34.100
Then this guy isn't like, uh, I want to be careful because he's going to see this.
00:30:39.260
He's not a, a warrior, like tough guy type guy, but the way he's talking to me, it's like, I think
00:30:47.520
he's going to start throwing fists here if I don't get my, my backside in action. So he was the
00:30:53.400
real push and hammering. We were in Medjugorje in May through that summer to where towards the end of
00:31:02.680
the summer, I finally start writing down notes, right? Into an organized situation. Then,
00:31:12.800
you know, I always forget the date, but it's the date on the back of our shirts, our night shirts.
00:31:19.780
Let me just pull these out here since I've got them here. So this is the shirt of the night's
00:31:27.020
John Paul II. Behold, I have given you the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon the
00:31:38.300
full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you from Luke 10, 19. That quote from the gospel just
00:31:46.260
pierced my heart. I mean, and I, the whole rest of mass, I just couldn't get it out. And, and I think
00:31:56.760
that was the launching pad. I walked out of church and I was just, first one I went to was some,
00:32:03.980
some of my friends and I'm like, did you hear that reading? Did you hear the power God's given us?
00:32:09.360
And they're all looking at me like, Daniel, okay. No, no, I'm like wound up. Then Deacon Bruce comes
00:32:17.380
out and I do it with him. I'm like, and I, it, it wouldn't rest. It wouldn't rest. So now I'm super
00:32:27.620
charged all week long at my work, which now I'm on this huge mountain, the backside of Mount Greylock
00:32:34.700
and I'm building roads. So the machines can access the timber. I'm building them with an excavator. So
00:32:41.520
the machines can stay on flat road. And so it's pretty methodical stuff. So I start, I have a little
00:32:50.600
notebook. I'm jotting notes down, but I, I'm, I'm starting to pray before I do it. True. Right.
00:33:00.720
So, you know, I'm running the equipment like this and I'm like, okay,
00:33:06.900
we're going to start a group of nights. I want some big heavy hitter saints on our side. So I'm
00:33:14.700
like, all right, Our Lady Guadalupe, St. Joseph. I started thinking of all the warrior saints I can
00:33:20.960
think of. At first it was three or four, then the next team, five or six. Because I think of other
00:33:27.480
saints. Like to me, St. Therese, the little flower is a warrior saint. I mean, you read her life. It's
00:33:33.400
like the demons would sear and flee. And so I'm like, okay, look at it. This is what I'm going to
00:33:38.340
do. I'm going to put you all into one category and then I'm going to keep adding more saints to it.
00:33:47.500
So I'm going to call you a saint. I'm going to call you JP2 and company. Good. Right.
00:33:52.660
True. Right. JP2 was the first one, obviously. I mean, he was a warrior. Um, and then I just kept
00:33:59.380
adding to it so that it got bigger and bigger. Then it was St. Michael. Then it was St. Michael
00:34:03.900
with Gabriel and Raphael. Then it was St. Michael and all nine choirs of angels. Right. Right. So
00:34:09.520
thoughts would come to me after I do that prayer and call on them to pray. Then at the end of the
00:34:15.200
day, when I got home, I'd start organizing it. And so it was that fall of 2019. It really all came
00:34:25.140
together. I mean, there were parts that even after I got it to the printer, which was
00:34:30.740
mid April of 2020. Now we're into COVID. Things are going crazy. I get it to the printer and I'm
00:34:40.020
like, okay, we're going to, we're going to officially start this on May 1st, which is the
00:34:44.660
feast of St. Joseph. And we're going to go down to the divine mercy shrine. Cause my favorite place
00:34:49.860
down there is the outdoor shrine to St. Joseph. So we do that May 1st. There's like five of us.
00:34:54.920
Okay. One of our, one of the founding fives, my older brother Lawrence, he just passed away
00:35:01.820
about four months ago and he was out there every Saturday morning. How do we start this?
00:35:06.600
I know we're going to pray the rosary, but we got to do an intro into this. So I'm leading
00:35:12.240
the group and I'm like, okay, call upon, you know, St. Michael and legions of angels and St.
00:35:22.940
Joseph terror of demon. After the first Saturday, I write this down. And then by the second Saturday,
00:35:31.340
it gets bigger. It was probably two, three months before I took that prayer to assemble the army
00:35:40.000
to a printer because it kept growing. Well, it's like, I don't just want a handful of saints. I want
00:35:50.060
all the saints. Right. And then I don't want, I want all nine choirs of angels. Wait a minute.
00:35:57.080
I want to, I want to get the souls in purgatory on this. Right. We now had a format to go out every
00:36:03.740
Saturday in an organized format. We could all just read that prayer, you know, and then I know I don't
00:36:10.520
like to lose battles. That's why all the nights carry that St. Joseph prayer. I just don't like
00:36:15.480
to lose battles. When I wrestled, I didn't like losing. You know, if you beat me six to four in
00:36:20.940
a match, when I meet you again in a month, I'm going to figure a way to beat you. So now in the
00:36:29.340
spiritual battle and in this worldly battle, we can see encompassing the world, I could see what
00:36:37.960
was coming actually 10 years before that. The signs were there. John Paul II talked about it back in
00:36:46.640
1976, right? The final confrontation between good and evil, between the gospel and the anti-gospel,
00:36:57.580
between Christ and the antichrist. That was 1976. Here we are in 2020. I know what we're up against,
00:37:10.620
but I also know the power God's given us with the heavenly army behind it.
00:37:16.340
Um, I don't expect to lose any battles. I mean, there's still two battles in my life that I'm
00:37:23.100
fighting right now. I haven't lost them. I haven't won them yet. You know, some battles take a long
00:37:30.360
time, right? Look at the French and English war. That was a hundred years of war. Okay. But I don't
00:37:37.700
expect to lose any battles. I know in my hometown, we've won every battle. I know sitting on the select
00:37:45.240
board during COVID, every battle came our way where, you know, the governor and trying to enforce
00:37:54.460
stuff on us. We'd have knights show up before the select board meeting. I'd have them come.
00:38:02.720
We'd do our prayer, summon the army, pray a rosary in the parking lot. I'd go into the select board
00:38:07.780
meeting. True. It was just victory after victory. The basic format of the knights is you meet every
00:38:15.580
Saturday morning. You pray for an hour in twos after calling on the heavenly army to come join
00:38:20.380
you. This is a very simple description. Yeah. But in addition to that, you employ the knights
00:38:25.720
for special things that, uh, that pertain to the town and or your family. How have you guys worked
00:38:32.980
that? Because we're, we're now very used to every Saturday come rain or shine or freezing cold. Uh,
00:38:40.260
we're out there. And, um, but what's this other aspect of doing things in town? What tells about that?
00:38:47.460
Okay. So what did knights do for the king? They were trained and then an issue come along
00:38:56.080
and they have to go into battle, but they're ongoing training. Okay. It's kind of like our weekly
00:39:04.900
we're going out, we're training. Now an issue comes up that issue in Boston three years ago
00:39:12.380
with the satanic group. And it was a big, they had a huge hotel and they were doing a downtown Boston
00:39:19.820
and all the bishops in the area. Right. I I've got to say this. They, they, they told the Catholics
00:39:27.840
just don't make a scene. Just go to the, your local parish and go in front of the blessed sacrament,
00:39:35.660
which is okay. If you're, you know what I mean? I started calling up the knights. Six of us went down.
00:39:41.400
I said, if there's a battle, no, you want to sit on the sidelines. It's like, no, a knight want you,
00:39:49.180
you're, you're trained. You want to go into battle. We went down, we rented a hotel.
00:39:56.960
There was only about a hundred people showed up, but TFP was there in America needs Fatima was there
00:40:03.000
and they were so organized. We have a banner now for the night. So we brought our banner.
00:40:09.380
Um, all the young guys from TFP, they were actually wanted to know about us, have some information on
00:40:16.000
the nights, but they organized it. It was, you just had to follow along with the rosaries and
00:40:21.300
everything like that. There was only one priest there. Who? A Franciscan. Any of these things come
00:40:28.820
up, um, you know, like several years ago, Bishop Strickland had that big procession in, in Los
00:40:38.340
Angeles. You don't know how bad I wanted to fly out to that because there's a battle, but you don't
00:40:47.020
have to always travel. These bigger things come up. Yeah. But what battles are happening in your town?
00:40:53.000
If you're not on the parish or a city council or in our town, it's select board. If you're not on the
00:40:59.460
school board, if you don't belong to that, you know, people in there, just tell them something big's
00:41:05.760
coming up. Let me know. You got a school board meeting Tuesday night and there's this big issue.
00:41:12.340
Let me know. I'll bring some of the nights. We'll show up outside. We'll assemble the army. We'll pray
00:41:19.900
a rosary for what's going on inside. In that prayer itself to summon the army, I do believe it's very
00:41:27.540
inspired and powerful. You don't have to be a knight to use it, but you could be a woman's group
00:41:34.260
outside of abortion. You're going to pray the rosary anyway. Why not have the army with you?
00:41:40.600
For some people, it must sound, especially when they see the prayer, it must just sound like crazy.
00:41:48.020
Yeah. It's, it's worth going through it to, to see what you're saying. So the, the, the prayer is,
00:41:53.800
is very, um, it's one that there's a, there's a lot in it. So let's actually talk about it because
00:42:01.420
I want to just, I'll read it out. This is a prayer before the rosary to summon the army.
00:42:07.500
We have trust in whatever name of the town to the sacred heart of Jesus and the immaculate heart
00:42:12.860
of Mary. We claim this city or town for Jesus, King of all nations and our queen, our lady of
00:42:18.740
Guadalupe. Repent of all the ways which we have allowed evil to infiltrate our city or town and we
00:42:25.320
resolve, uh, and our families and we resolve to take our town and our families back. So we joined
00:42:31.040
together today to drive out all the demons and evil from our town. Uh, you name the town there
00:42:36.600
because we are small and weak. We call upon our lady of Guadalupe, the woman clothed with the sun
00:42:41.680
who does battle with the dragon to go before us and lead us. We call upon St. Joseph, terror of demons
00:42:47.700
to go beside us. We call upon St. Michael, the archangel to arise now and come with thy sword and bring
00:42:53.500
all the angels of heaven to join us and drive all the demons eatable out of our city. We call upon
00:43:01.200
all the saints in heaven to join us now and to aid us in battle. We also call upon you souls in
00:43:06.840
purgatory to join us now and be with us today in this battle. Lastly, we call upon you, John Paul II
00:43:14.080
and company, to be with us now, pray for us and help us to drive the enemies of Christ out of our city.
00:43:21.660
And just, it's, it's really beautiful, really powerful. I think a lot of people will, um,
00:43:29.360
they, they will, they'll call you up right away and say, wait, what do you mean? You can't,
00:43:32.620
how do you get the souls in purgatory to join you? I thought you were only allowed to pray for them.
00:43:36.480
It's interesting. I had our first meeting we had with, with our Bishop, Bishop Brun.
00:43:40.940
I showed him the prayer and I said, you know, Bishop, I don't even know if this is theologically
00:43:46.720
right. I said, I don't know if the souls in purgatory can come and join us. And his response
00:43:54.960
was brilliant. He's like, it can't hurt to ask, you know? And, and I, I think that's what I see about
00:44:03.560
this prayer. It's like, and you know, this is going back 15, 20 years ago. Cause I read a lot
00:44:10.220
of different stuff and I'll even follow some, some Protestant circles, you know, just cause I,
00:44:16.400
um, I've got Protestant friends, Protestant ministers. There was this one fella, Protestant
00:44:22.200
guy. He had a vision and he was sharing the vision, legions and legions of these huge angels
00:44:30.860
standing at attention, which huge swords and the Lord revealed to him, these angels have been standing
00:44:43.200
in attention since the time I created them for the big battle, right? So that was rolling around in the
00:44:51.960
back of my head too. It's like, Hey man, I, I want to get these guys on the field, right? And to ask,
00:45:01.060
right? Right. Our Lord said that ask, ask, and you shall receive. I think if we look at the warriors
00:45:07.980
throughout history, they were bold, not just in the face of evil, they were bold with their prayer to God.
00:45:16.280
I think if God can have boldness, courage, right? And it's bold to ask, right? I've never seen a
00:45:25.300
prayer like this. Like who asks all the angels, all the saints, all the souls in purgatory to like,
00:45:31.080
join us in my little town right now. Okay. That's bold. He told St. Faustina,
00:45:38.100
ask me for much. I am willing to give much to, right? That ask, that ask all along St. Louis to
00:45:50.340
Montfort when he taught the prayer of the rosary. It wasn't just, it was ask something before each
00:45:58.080
decade, ask for a grace. That was John Paul II's motto. Ask the first joyful mystery.
00:46:08.080
is the enunciation, but the fruit of the mystery of humility. How about you ask for humility
00:46:16.900
versus just saying the fruit is humility. Could I have some of your humility and then pray your
00:46:24.740
decade? You know what I mean? That's St. Louis's, John Paul II's method.
00:46:30.100
The rosary, as you play it out, is a very normal rosary, except for these small, tiny differences.
00:46:38.380
One of which is you say the St. Michael prayer and the Holy Spirit, come Holy Ghost, come by means of
00:46:46.200
the powerful intercession, the back of the heart of Mary, thy well-beloved spouse. But those two are
00:46:50.280
inserted after the typical Fatima prayer, oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us and empower us
00:46:56.400
shall lead all souls to them, especially those in most need of thy mercy. So other than that,
00:47:01.140
it's a completely normal rosary. That does add to it though. My friends tell me all that, all those
00:47:08.120
add-ons. But it takes more time. It does. It does. But also this other difference is that before each
00:47:16.320
decade, you mentioned an intention. And that's really great because I told my wife this, I told her,
00:47:24.720
this is the perfect guy's group. She said, wait, you don't do anything. She said, like, do you talk
00:47:32.300
before? No, not much. We just get there, we pray. And then it's an hour and we go. And she said, but
00:47:39.720
you didn't do anything. Well, actually we do because that sharing of intentions, you're sort of talking.
00:47:45.800
I don't know that guys like talk like women do, it's a different thing. But that, what they were doing,
00:47:52.460
what we're doing, we all know one another and we're all friends. But we sometimes will share
00:47:58.340
stuff that's personal, a prayer need as we do that. And we do it right away. We're praying for
00:48:05.500
one another. Yeah. You're more of a warrior guy than I am. When I think of activism, when I think of
00:48:11.940
doing something for our Lord and being in Canada was the pro-life movement. And you want to do something
00:48:19.380
because you're sick of this. And I tried, I ran three times for political office. I,
00:48:24.280
you know, you, you, whenever we don't have an abortion clinic, thank God, anywhere near where
00:48:28.640
we live. But when, when I'm away, I go and do that with pro-lifers there. It's awesome. But it's
00:48:34.520
interesting because it's doing, it's a form of battle that isn't the world's way. It's not
00:48:40.440
political lobbying. Not that I'm saying political lobbying is bad, but this is an active fighting
00:48:48.480
that is completely spiritual in a way. You, the physical is there, you show up and then you walk
00:48:56.840
around your town. So it's a, it's a bodily, a sort of embodied spiritual warfare. It's really
00:49:03.980
beautiful. And, and for me, I thought, wow, if you really want to take your, your town and your
00:49:11.320
families back for Christ and Holy mother, there's nothing, there's nothing better. I, um, that's
00:49:17.180
why I loved it. When I, when I first heard about it, I wanted to say too, when I first heard about
00:49:22.880
it, I, it came really as an email, I guess, from you or from Deacon, I don't know who from
00:49:28.180
any package I sent you. Yeah, that's right. In the mail. So this is weird. We get lots of stuff.
00:49:33.980
And it's, it's hard to sort out what you're supposed to do, what you're not. We try with
00:49:38.460
prayer and say, oh boy, you know, I wish I heard our Lord. I don't. I, I, I mean, you know, you must
00:49:43.920
hear him internally in your heart, but I wish I would get that. John Henry, this is what I want you
00:49:49.260
to do and do it now. Okay. I'm no problem, but it's not like that. But what happened to me was
00:49:55.360
our town was undergoing all sorts of insanity when your package arrived. And we were like, oh,
00:50:05.380
there's a, they're, they're going to build a mosque and grow. And the Catholic hospital had
00:50:12.300
abandoned their chapel. They sent back the, the stations and the tabernacle and all the stuff
00:50:18.820
from the chapel. They just sent it back to the church. We don't want this anymore. And, uh,
00:50:22.660
there was a drag show that just happened in town at our little town, a drag show. We're
00:50:27.700
like, what? And so all this stuff is happening. And euthanasia was starting at our local hospital,
00:50:35.900
which is named after a Catholic saint. So really Catholic, but we was like, whoa, what the heck
00:50:43.060
is going on here? We're living so far outside the city so we can raise our kids in a good place.
00:50:48.160
Pound. Or just getting pounded by evil. And that's when your package arrives. I was like,
00:50:55.280
and I, and, you know, I was reading it a little bit. I was like, to take our towns and our families
00:51:00.440
back. Obviously I'm called to do this. So that was interesting. That was the start of it here
00:51:04.840
already a couple of years ago. And, you know, we started a little group and, and been going
00:51:08.860
faithfully ever since. We certainly turned the tide in the town. Um, and I wouldn't, I wouldn't say to
00:51:19.840
guys, you know, okay, well, you four guys are going to start going out and everything's going to change
00:51:23.600
right away. It's the day in, it's the day out. I think, you know, even the walls of Jericho didn't
00:51:29.360
have to go around seven times. Nothing happened the first six. Yeah. Um, and, and remember too,
00:51:36.880
I want to point this out. Your prayers are enabling, helping, obtaining more grace for
00:51:47.280
good people that are on the school board, good people who are on the city council,
00:51:54.800
good people who are in the police department, right? Cause there's any war. There's not just
00:52:02.560
foot soldiers, right? You were talking about a little bit earlier. There's, there's people that
00:52:09.020
do this. There's people that do that. There's people do that. Then you have the special force
00:52:14.140
guys that go in cross enemy lines. That's what I like to think of the Knights as it's like, we go
00:52:20.540
in, we shoot off the rockets, the artillery, and we loosen things up so that the guys can come in
00:52:28.860
behind us and gals, you know, the also thing too, I remember you asking me a while back
00:52:34.540
that, well, can anybody use this prayer? And I think that's important because whatever your group
00:52:40.060
is doing, you're a pro-life crew, um, any number of other, there's so many apostolates out there and
00:52:49.020
so many people doing good work. It's like, just get the army behind you. If I can't emphasize that
00:52:56.720
enough, go on our website, get a copy of the prayer and, and, you know, print out copies.
00:53:04.400
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through crafting a solution for your family. Why John Paul II? I can honestly say he was
00:53:51.000
Papa to me. Um, but then, you know, the more, the more I discovered his life, underground seminary,
00:54:00.520
right? Buddies getting taken off by the Nazis and the communists. Um,
00:54:06.320
he's just a fighter, right? Then, then as a bishop, right? He's one of the few bishops in communist
00:54:16.780
countries that got the better of the communists, right? Right. He, he, he could keep the pressure
00:54:24.360
on them, right? In high level negotiations, usually everybody tries to, right? But one side wins
00:54:31.460
because they've got more leverage, you might say. And the way I used to see it is he, he always had
00:54:38.980
this tight rubber band on them and always got them to move a little closer. Like when they band
00:54:44.660
processions on the streets with the blessed mother, what's he do? He takes the picture out of the frame,
00:54:53.920
goes out on the streets and has a procession. When he had that huge mass out there,
00:55:01.460
you know, out in that field, it was a Nova Hoota. You know, I saw these things and I'm like,
00:55:07.920
he was a warrior. At the same time, he was a genius, right? He spoke 22 languages. He wrote,
00:55:15.140
I think more encyclicals and documents than any other Pope. He just like on so many levels. Long before
00:55:22.500
I founded the Knights, when I used to speak of John Paul II or quote him, I always said,
00:55:30.180
it's going to take 500 years for the church to work through all his writings, right? His writing
00:55:38.300
on human sexuality, love and responsibility, theology of the body, the family. So with the
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Knights, I see we have a battle in front of us, but then there's going to be a victory. We know that.
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We know our lady's going to triumph, right? We're, we're in our army now. And I know she's got a lot
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of, she's our general. She's got a lot of, right? The Knights are just one little, right? She's got all
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over the globe and everybody's got a specific mission, right? But the triumph is going to come.
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And, and when it comes, how long is that era of peace going to last?
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I believe it's going to be things like men in every town doing what we do, even after the triumph.
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Just keep doing it. All the Eucharist adoration chapels, all the family rosary, those things all got to continue, right?
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The way he spoke to the young people. He challenged us, yes, but it's so, it was so intimate.
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Yeah, I'll use that word. You know, that's where I came up with the name JP2. It's like you'd be at a
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World Youth Day and the whole, the whole crowd would just start chanting JP2. They weren't calling him
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Pope Francis or, you know what I mean? Proper JP2. That's an intimate, right? We love you. And then he
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would shout back from the microphone, JP2 loves you too.
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Boom, John Paul inspired so much. I know because when I got back from World Youth Day, 92,
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we started with a bunch of chaperones, basically, who were with the Toronto group, started a prayer
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group. That was a hugely powerful prayer group, but I had this feeling in the prayer group,
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we were in trouble. Our Lord wasn't going to let us stay together. There's way too many leaders
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because they were like the ones who organized it in the first place. There was just a whole bunch of,
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like I could see, natural born leaders in the group. And sure enough, after a few years,
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we were all over the place. And it was true. And they're all leading different things right now.
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It's quite amazing. The Knights is now in other countries, which is really weird. Yes, it's in
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Canada, but Canada, the United States, you know, we're not the 51st state yet, but you know, it's not.
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We've been so close for so long, it almost seems like the same. But you have the Knights
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on different continents. Yeah. That must be really weird. And what is that? What have you
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seen of that? I don't see much, right? Because I'm not a, I'm really not a technical guy. We have
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our website group sign up. According to Timothy in Ireland, brilliant guy, by the way, I love him.
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Finally got to meet him in Kansas City at the Rome Life Forum. Last county told me there was 15 or 16
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countries that there's guys in, including Slovakia, right? But I know, I know how we ended up in the
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Philippines. There was a nun in the Rome Life Forum in Rome, right? Everybody else is in suit and ties,
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but I dress like a knight, even at these fancy things. I figure I got to, I always got to be ready
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for battle. But she came up to me and she was from the Philippines and she wanted all the information
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I had. She's like, I know the guys I'm going to talk to. And I don't know, we kind of seem like
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in a lull right now, although I haven't checked the website. I don't, I don't even think I know how to
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check like where you people sign up. Once we got going, I'll be honest with you, because I tend to
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think big. I want to see two knights in every town across the globe. I don't think it takes
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more than two. When you've got that army behind you, I don't know as if that, it's so Lord of the
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Rings, right? The man who can summon that army will be the deadliest force the world's ever seen.
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Now we're not calling this a deadly force, but it is going to be for the demons.
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Okay. And in the context in Lord of the Rings, it's like whoever can wield this sword,
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the man who can wield this sword. And I think I spoke about this at the Rome Life Forum in Rome
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is that the reality is every one of us who's a baptized Catholic confirmed in a state of grace
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can wield that sword, can call on that army. Now in the movie, only Aragon could, because he was the
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king to be, he was the bloodline. But in reality, every Catholic can. And on the back of our t-shirts,
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that's for every Catholic. I've given you the power. Yeah, that's my, that's my vision,
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you'd say is I let two men in every town. Now, how the, I don't know, you know, I'm just a little
01:01:01.100
guy in Vermont, spend most of my days in the woods cutting trees. The ease, relative ease of the whole
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thing, because you, you don't, there's no dues. There's no nothing there. Basically, all it is,
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is a simple prayer for summoning of the heavenly army, which is super powerful all by itself.
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But then it's the Holy Rose. Yeah. But then Jesus' prescription of go in twos. Yeah. And that's
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basically the whole thing. The, the neat part for me about it is that simplicity combined with the
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power that we all believe is really there, um, is just a deadly combination because it speaks to our
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littleness because you really think about what we're up against. We're not even up against, which would be
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bad enough. The globalists with their smarts and their money and their control and their spying and
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ever, that's not it. If that were it, it'd be like, okay, well, let's do a war council and try and figure
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we got some smart guys on our side too. That's not it. We're up against the heavenly powers, which,
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which are there beyond anything we can muster. And the only, the only help we have is this. So
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in a very real way, you're doing the only battle in the only way how now we might be called to do
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other things like joining or get elected to the council or whatever, but it still comes from this
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source. So you, you laid out what your hopes are for the future. Um, do you have any sense for a role
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for the nights in the times to come? Because the times we're living in are really weird. It is,
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even though right now in the U S there's some positive things happening. If you look on a global
01:02:53.880
scale and it might be hard for people in the U S to, to recognize on a global scale, things are,
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imagine not improving. Imagine Biden having stayed in, imagine it just not only continuing,
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but at a pace that you thought the pace that Donald Trump is trying to reverse thing, but going
01:03:13.540
forward, imagine how sick you'd feel. Well, that's the rest of the world right now. From that
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perspective, things look dangerous in terms of an ultimate evil type of thing. What's your thought
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your, um, you know, in terms of the times to come, I just had, uh, Xavier era, who, you know,
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um, who's been at real life forum, come and talk to me. We did interview both with him and with
01:03:39.400
others. Uh, Luz de Maria was just on, they're talking about antichrist being not only a reality
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for the future as in, you know, 40, 50 years. No, no, no, no, no. They're talking like imminent
01:03:52.080
future, like within a decade type of thing. Your thoughts on any of that and the nights, uh,
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if they have any role that way. I got to go back in. I always got to go back to JP. It's like
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1976, Philadelphia. We are entering into the final confrontation. And he mentioned between
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Christ and the antichrist. Now we have mystics, some approved by their bishop saying he's walking
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among us, the antichrist, and he's getting soon to reveal himself publicly. So yeah, I believe that.
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And do I believe me and a group of knights can go up and go out and fight against them?
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Sure. I do. No, and I know that might sound cocky, right? But it says right in Luke, I've
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given you the power to tread upon the full force of the enemy. Well, what's the full force of the
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enemy? If not the antichrist in all of salvation history, there's one point where the full force
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would be that period. And we've been given the power to tread on it. Not just the knights, but
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there's also the other prophecies. And I got to bring this up because you brought up Xavier. And a
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lot of people that follow life say they follow Xavier as well. Um, I think it's a French accent.
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Everybody likes. He talks a lot about the great French monarch and, and these two men,
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they're going to collide. Tough. What, who's the great French monarch? What is that?
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Well, it's prophecies. You can find, uh, mystics and saints going back six, 700 years talking about
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this period of time would come when God would raise up a great king, a monarch to basically reconquer
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Christendom to fight against the evil forces. The world would be in darkness. Okay. Now over the
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centuries, we start coming across, um, mystics like Marie-Julie Jeheny or the messages of La Salette,
01:05:58.340
which got more specific, a French monarch who's been in exile, right? Because Louis XVI and the Antoinette,
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they were executed, but it's a lineage of Louis XVI whisked away in hiding for 250 years.
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But the line has survived. It's so like Lord of the Rings. I just get, you're right. Because
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Aragon has, he survived. He's the heir to the throne. He knows he is in the case. It's just my personal
01:06:35.300
opinion. Some of this is like, and I'll say when I think it's my personal opinion, he may not,
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French monarch, the king to be may not even know who he is right now. Okay. I think that's how hidden
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the Blessed Mothers kept him. Okay. Um, because as Xavier says, the, the enemies, the Freemasons, the,
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would take him out just like they tried to take the Aragon out. That's why he had to go into hiding
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with the elves for 70 years. I believe those, um, prophecies, they make sense. France is the eldest
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daughter of the church, and she's probably fallen the furthest. It's stunning because it doesn't look
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like, you know, a sign of, uh, especially what they're doing now with, uh, Macron and, and getting
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rid of the pen and everything else. This is all insane. You know, the, the countries that are
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basically, they're criminalizing any, a different opinion. I believe he's going to be coming on the
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scene probably about the same time. You're going to have the Antichrist. You're going to have the
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great French monarch, but the great French monarch is going to need an army of warriors.
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Maybe a little grandiose, cocky on my part, but I think the Knights have at least some small part
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to play. The Knights of JP too. I think we'll get some kind of a role. Okay. Myself, I want a front
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line. I mean, you know, I want to be the, the, the first guy he's in. Um, but that's not my call.
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It's so, so exciting to be alive right now. Xavier beat me to the punch the year before
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Kansas city. He was on a podcast and he wanted to be the first Frenchman to give his allegiance
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to the King to come great French monarch. And he did it publicly. So in Kansas city, I had the
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opportunity to do it publicly. Right. As a first American Frenchman and Xavier often mentions this
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because he's, he's done a lot of interviews on, on this recently. And when he gets talking
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about the French monarch, he often says, I wouldn't be surprised if he's watching right now.
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Okay. True. And so I'm going to say the same thing right now. And if he is watching, remember
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this crazy lumberjack from Vermont. I want some kind of a job in your, I'm going to call it
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a fellowship, just like Lord of the Rings, a fellowship. I want some job, right?
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What is the, the sort of fealty, the oath that, uh, that you made?
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And you got to learn this gentlemen, you have to learn this. It's not very difficult. It took me
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one night over your heart, your chest, my soul to God, my life to the King, my heart to Mary,
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my honor to myself. We were going to wrap up now. So I wanted to get any final thoughts that you've
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had. I mean, have some excitement. The fact that the saints long to live in these times,
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they long to live in these times. It's only going to happen once in the history, right?
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And God's put you here and he has a role for you. He has a role for me. He's got a mission for every
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person. Some, obviously a lot of different missions, right? But did, you know, this evil
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is coming at us. Don't be afraid. We have God's power with us. Just to be clear, you're not saying
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that you won't, that in the battle, you won't be martyred. No. Yeah. So I think a lot of people
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think when they say victory, they think you mean, uh, you know, you're going to be victorious
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in a worldly sense, but it is victorious to be martyred. In fact, it's the greatest victory.
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Yeah. It's the greatest victory. Um, but, but I believe, yeah, martyred, but if that's where
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God's mission is for you, um, don't fret, right? One of the Franciscans out of New York there,
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you know, he used to always say, don't think about martyrdom. And if you're going to be strong
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enough for anything like that, you don't get on the train unless you get the ticket, right? So if
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God calls you to that, he's going to give you the grace. So, yeah, but on the same level, I do believe,
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you know, temporarily we're going to be victorious too. Now, I don't know if I'll make it to the end of
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that battle. You know, I could get killed in the first one, right? Um, but it doesn't matter.
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Yeah. I'm in it now. We all are. So you're, you're already in the battle. Um, and, and a lot of people
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out there are probably already engaged in the mission where the Lord wants them. Now, now there's
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probably going to be a lot of events that happened that may throw things off. And then you find, oh,
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well, the Lord wants me to do this now. You know what I mean? So kind of be, kind of be like,
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I guess I compare it to our, uh, a good military strategist. It's like you have your plans and this
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and that, but then something changes. And so you have to adjust. Um, but this is an adventure.
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I mean, just like Lord of the Rings, it's like, this is an adventure that we're the only generation
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gets to experience this adventure. Um, so you might as well enjoy it.
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Again, Knights of John Paul, Knights of St. John Paul 2.org is where to go. Um, Daniel,
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uh, thank you so much for joining us. Um, you're coming to, uh, Roman Life Forum, are you this year?
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It's my plan to, I hope to. November 3rd, 4th in Rome. Uh, that's the first time we met was in Rome
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in, but two, three years ago there. Yeah. And, uh, just, this is what, uh, you know,
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one of the things that we're doing, it's, it's a battle there. We were actually in Rome, uh, doing
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some prayers, summoning prayers as well, uh, in the city that really needs it. And in fact,
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if you could bring a contingent of the Knights to Rome, that's one thing that we haven't really
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officially announced yet, but I might as well. In addition to the Rome Life Forum on the 3rd and
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the 4th of November, there's going to be a penitential walking, praying pilgrimage with
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Bishop Strickland all around the streets of Rome. It's going to be an eight hour rosary
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procession just through the streets of Rome with Bishop Strickland. That, if anybody is interested
01:13:41.980
in that, get walking practice in now, because that's going to be arduous. But of all the cities
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that need to be taken back for Christ and his Holy Mother, Rome is first.
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Oh, I'm all over that. As long as I got the funds, I'll be there. But I have a suggestion,
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seeing how Bishop Strickland is our chaplain for the Knights. This eight hour, I love this kind of
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stuff. This eight hour rosary procession, maybe he could lead us in the prayer to summon the army
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Amen. That's a great idea. That's a great idea. Daniel Potman, thank you, my friend.
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And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
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