What happens when a Catholic man stops staying silent and starts taking the Gospel into enemy territory?
In this episode of The Manly Catholic, Fr. Dom sits down with Marshall Brummel, a Catholic convert, husband, and father who refuses to outsource evangelization to someone else. What began as righteous anger over the corruption of his neighborhood turned into something far more demanding: direct, prayerful, face-to-face missionary work in places most Catholics avoid entirely.
Marshall shares his conversion from militant atheism to Catholicism, driven by beauty, reason, Scripture, and ultimately the authority and sacramental power of the Church. But this episode is not about a comfortable conversion story. It is about what comes after conversion, when a man realizes that faith demands action.
You will hear how Marshall and a small group of men entered Pride events, markets, and public spaces not with signs or shouting, but armed with prayer, sacramental preparation, and one disarming question: What is love? What followed were encounters with Protestants, atheists, lukewarm Catholics, pastors, wounded souls, and even open Satanists. No yelling. No compromise. Just truth spoken with charity and courage.
We talk about spiritual warfare the way the Church has always understood it. Preparation through confession. Strength through the Eucharist. Going out two by two. Naming sin without hating the sinner. Protecting the domestic church while refusing to retreat from the public square.
If you have ever felt the fire stirring in your chest and wondered what God is asking of you, press play. This conversation will leave you without excuses.
3 Powerful Quotes from the Episode:
- “If you go out and you want to talk to people about God, they’ll talk to you. They’ll tell you things you never imagined they would.”
- “We’re not fighting the people. We’re fighting the powers and principalities that are trying to rule them.”
- “If you’re just doing the small things to avoid the big things God is calling you to do, stop doing that.”
One Immediate Takeaway for Men:
Stop hiding your faith. This week, speak openly about God in one concrete, public way. Say you went to Mass. Ask someone if you can pray for them. Do not wait for permission. The call is already clear.
The battlefield is your neighborhood.
The weapon is charity grounded in truth.
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