A Dram with Friends

Following God’s Will can lead anywhere! In this week’s episode, Peter Thompson visits Sean in the pub. Join them as Peter’s share his experiences of life as a Missionary around the world, from Birmingham (England) to Eritrea to Calgary with many stops in between. They discuss life’s challenges from learning to live the faith in the heart, to confession, and keeping your eyes on Jesus. #Missionary,...

Helping grow Catholic Education! In this week’s episode, Sean visits with the Chief Superintendant of the Calgary Catholic School District, Dr. Bryan Szumlas. Listen as they discuss life within Canada’s second largest Catholic school district, the challenges faced in bringing to life the Catholic Faith, and of being messengers of, and doing a better job of showing our Catholic faith.

Encouraging us to be a Real Life Catholic! In this week’s episode, Sean visits with (a travelling) Dan Donaldson. Listen as they discuss answering the call to live our baptismal vocations, how to share the Gospel in our world today, and what are the keys to the renewal of our Church in our modern world. #RealLifeCatholic, #BaptismalCall, #GodSquad

Building the Character of a Godly Man! In this week’s episode, Sean welcomes Dr. Phil Chavez into the virtual pub. Follow as they discuss the challenges faced by men today, especially young men in discovering authentic manhood, and how to go about engaging them so that they are formed into true leaders in our families, communities, the church, and the wider society. #Men’sMinistry, #Character, #Go...

Father of Many, and a Son of God! In this week’s episode, Sean welcomes Fr. Jonathan Gibson into the virtual pub. Listen as Sean and Fr. Jonathan discuss their experiences of the Bible in a Year (BiaY), the challenges of living in our world, and the impact that the BiaY has had on them. #BiaY, #Scripture, #GodSquad

Law enforcement with a Collar! In this week’s episode, Sean visits with Deacon Mike Daly in Denver, Colorado. Listen as they share their experiences as police officers and the challenges therein with working with youth at risk and the spiritual challenges they face. Deacon Mike retells his experiences of challenging God after the loss of his mother, to how he came to serve as a Police Officer, and...

From Football to Faith! In this week’s episode, Sean visits with Patrick Devenny in Denver, Colorado. Listen as Patrick share’s his journey coming from a secular world, to football, to finding faith. They discuss Patrick’s experience of surviving a severe bike crash, to being married, to co-hosting a podcast, and growing in his faith. #GregorianRant, #Denver, #GodSquad

Following God from Ireland to Denver! In this week’s episode, Sean visits with Brendan Moran in Denver, Colorado. Listen as they discuss Brendan’s journey from an extremely poor small farm in the west of Ireland to the Holy Land to Denver and his connection with St. Pope John Paul II and World Youth Day in Denver. Listen as Brendan shares how God has touched his and his family’s life and how we’re...

A Challenge to live by virtue! In this week’s episode, Sean visits with Dr. Edward (Ted) Sri in Denver. Listen as they discuss Dr. Ted’s experiences of being a Son of God, a Catholic, Husband, Father to 8 children. Dr. Ted is a Theologian with Focus helping to train young men and women to be missionaries serving in 185 different Campuses and 18-19 Parishes Across the USA. Sean and Dr. Ted share th...

A Young man growing in wisdom! In this week’s episode, Sean visits with Arron Ottman in his pub in Blaine, Minnesota. Listen as they discuss Arron’s journey towards becoming a Police Officer while serving in the National Guard and studying Criminal Justice in college. Arron shared his passion and calling towards service includes the army, the police; not for the accolades but from a sense of servi...

A Father leads his family to follow God! In this week’s episode, Sean invites friend and fellow God Squad Board member, John Paul into the pub. Listen as they discuss John Paul’s journey of marriage, 8 children, and 13 grandchildren and his journey and trust that lead him and his family to building homes in Mexico for families that would otherwise take 3 generations of work and savings to buy land...

In this week’s episode, Sean invites Sean Blair into the pub as they discuss Sean B’s joys of helping to raise a family of 10 children. Step into the pub and listen as the two Seans discuss issues around conversion to the Catholic church, attending the 2nd God Squad Conference and hearing Dr. Tim Gray speaking on the concept of Virtue, to Steve Wood’s call to make a difference, not just for today...

Sharing the Joy of being with his people! In this week’s episode, Sean invites Fr. Cristino to the pub as they discuss Fr. Cristino’s journey from growing up in an Italian home in Medicine Hat (Alberta) to feeling called by St. John Paul II at World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002. Step into the pub and listen as they discuss issues around how young people today are faced with the disconnection pande...

Walking with a Brother In this week’s episode, former defensive tackle with the Calgary Stampeders Eugene Belliveau joins Sean in the pub as they discuss their journey that brought them together as one of the original founders of God Squad. Listen as they describe how Mother Angelica touched their lives, and their experiences in helping young people today in a world of social media. #EugeneBellive...

A Man reaching one young person at a time In this week’s episode, Michael Chiasson joins Sean in the pub as they discuss Michael’s outreach to young people. Their conversation takes them from who Michael is, what impacted his journey to his Ministry of 25 years reaching young people through music, retreats, talks, and motivating short videos, to his call to actively respond and to “be authenticall...

A Scripture Scholar shares some wisdom In this week’s episode, Dr. Michael Barber joins Sean in the pub as they discuss Michael’s feeling called as a young teenager to be a professor and teach scripture . They discuss his journey, to seeing the fruits in his home Diocese of Denver for what he calls “The World Youth Day Effect”, to what we are called as Catholics are challenged to be. At the heart...

Leader of Made for Greatness Catholic Men’s Ministry In this week’s episode, Kevin joins Sean in the pub as they discuss his journey from an AC/DC concert to family life, to men’s ministry. Kevin and Sean share some of the challenges of forming men in our challenging times, to being a father and a cook of pancakes (especially chocolate chip pancakes), to being inspired by the saints. #MadeForGreat...

Most Reverend Scott McCaig, Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Canada In this week’s episode, Bishop Scott joins Sean in the pub Canmore (Alberta) as they prepare to start a 5000 kilometer motorcycle journey to Ottawa. They discuss men’s ministry, the call to pursue the heart of God, fellowship, and Bishop’s Scott’s personal journey from little to no faith, to his asking the 3 questions about G...

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers - Portland, Oregon, United States In this week’s episode, Deacon Harold joins Sean in the pub to discuss his journey from the monastery to Law Enforcement to service to the Church being ordained as a Deacon. Deacon Harold shares some of his passions in engaging with people both in his time as a Police Chief and as a Deacon, and treating each person always with dignity an...

We are joined in the pub by Vince Aliberti who is an Author, Speaker and Peak Performance Strategist.  Listen to why we are not having a dram in the pub today. Vince shares a very powerful story as to why some should not have a drink. https://godsquad.ca/donate #GodSquad #Catholic #sober

Listen to Carlos Foggin a 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award winner, in 2019 was named by the Calgary Herald as a “Compelling Calgarian” for his work in community building, education, and outreach and was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. Sean and Carlos enjoy a whiskey sour as talks about writing the music for the Litany of St Joseph commissio...

Sit back as Sean pours an Arran 10yr old scotch whisky and we visit a new friend. Peter will talk about being born in Ontario and then moving to the US.  It was there that he met the Franciscans who made an impact on his future. Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies Catholic Women's League Chair for Catholic Studies St. Mary's University

We are happy to have Devin Schadt join us in the pub. Devin introduces us to Cody Road bourbon while Sean enjoys a dram of Basil Hayden bourbon. Devin talks about how he had a conversion of heart as a father and how St Joseph has helped him as a father. Devin describes how building relationships leads to conversions.

Ian Anderson joins Sean in the pub with a bottle of Centennial rye and Sean pours an Aberlour 12 yr old scotch whisky. Listen to this CCO missionary describe how he wants to be a saint!. He talks about being a young Dad with a new arrival earlier this year. We discuss how many things are named after St Joseph here in Canada and how to learn from him as a role model. https://godsquad.ca/donate &nbs...

Sean knows to serve some Elijah Craig when Dwight shows up in the pub and he responds by pouring a Crown Royal Canadian whisky.  Listen how Dwight ended up riding motorcycles with the God Squad. He also talks about he uses many opportunities to be an Activated Disciple! We hope you enjoy this episode with this Vietnam war veteran. #GodSquad #Catholic #wateroflife