How to be the Spiritual Leader of Your Family w/ Dr. Scott Hahn | Pints with Aquinas Episode

[@stephene6069]

Scott Hahn and Pints with Aquinas are two of the biggest influences in my conversion to Catholicism. It's great to see both of them on the same screen and their love of the faith. God bless you both!

[@bhaines50]

Same here! I read, ”Rome Sweet Home, ” converted and continued my study of the Faith through Pints with Aquinas and Dr. Hahn’s books. Very thankful for the Church and the seeds planted by these two!

[@stephene6069]

Great to hear, Bart! "Rome Sweet Home" was the first book I read when I was considering conversion. If you ever want to chat about conversion, theology, etc. send me a message!

[@jerodfrank6419]

tony Who determines what the true meaning of scripture is to you? I was a Baptist for most of my life. Protestants have an authority problem. If I am a Baptist and you are a Methodist, and we disagree on the interpretation of scripture, then we just pick our favorite verses, and try to win the argument. If we each get to decide what Truth is in scripture, then the Bible is not your actual authority, but rather, you are your own Pope

[@rosiegirl2485]

@@jerodfrank6419 In scripture, when Phillip encounters the eunuch, he asked him if he understood what he was reading. The eunuch said "how can I, unless someone instructs me." Phillip represents the Church. So he instructs him, and then he is baptized.

[@kellibuzzard9431]

Same. In nine days I will enter Mother Church at my parish here in Budapest, Hungary. Glory to God!

[@javiermariscal3890]

This blew my mind. I'm 20 years old and in college. I wish everyone in my university could understand how indescribably beautiful the Catholic view of marriage is. Recently I spoke to a few women my age who were convinced marriage is a patriarchal institution and that marrying a man would result in a lifetime of submission and weakness. They would rather be single, rich, and promiscuous all their lives than marry a man. I've also met men who live to increase their "body count" (amount of women they hook up with). This type of lifestyle is encouraged and normal in universities now, and I GET IT. Within a purely agnostic worldview this makes sense. Especially if you grew up in a divorced household with abusive or irresponsible parents. It's not that people my age don't understand the value of marriage, a lot of them just haven't experienced the beauty of living in a household with two loving parents united by God. The decline of the family has harmed the youth more than any other group. The Catholic view of marriage and family is the best answer to an increasing culture of death. The honesty and power of this interview helped me see that. I'm going to med school, so it may be a while, but I'm excited to be a husband and a father someday. What a beautiful adventure it must be.

[@annmarie3573]

Bless you in the pursuit of a holy spouse and blessed family! Just celebrated 20 years (with 5 children) with my husband, and it's such a beautiful thing! It brings me to tears just contemplating it! I pray right now for your future wife, young man, that our Lord is preparing her in this moment and leading you to each other. ❤️

[@Mimse79]

And how refreshing to see someone so mature and clear-minded for such a young guy! Bless you - you'll be a true gift to a very lucky woman (and kids) some day! "Body count"? Jeez....how awfull....!! And yeah - that TRULY is an expression of the culture of death - because that's exactly what it is! Killing the soul of someone a little every time you use them just for "fun". Truly. And believe me - the opinion voiced by these women is not what they truly want - it's a defence mechanism in a cut throat world.... trust me.

[@javiermariscal5712]

@@annmarie3573 Thank you so much for the prayers and congratulations on 20 years of marriage!

[@javiermariscal5712]

​@@Mimse79 I think my parents helped me to see how beautiful and meaningful having a family is. That's why good parents are so important. The Grace of God helped me to see that without Christianity or something like it grounding society, the family will eventually fall apart. It might not be in this generation, but having a family may not be the norm in the next couple generations. We're seeing plenty of signs of that today. I also think you're right about my friends. Both women had been through a lot of pain, hopefully God heals them. I probably would've ended up thinking much like them if I didn't have good loving parents. As Catholics It's certainly time to defend the family.

[@Mimse79]

@@javiermariscal5712 you seem like a really grounded person who is also able to have compassion with and see the issues of others - that's really important when discussing Catholic viewpoints with others.... And yes: the family and relationships and self idendity itself IS falling apart in our time now - it's both scary and very, very sad - and at the same time I hope there is also some kind of divine meaning behind all of this... at least we must do our share to bring the truth and love of Christ to others, to make them see the awesome value of every single human being - and then why we should respect everyone and not just use and abuse them for our own purposes. Sounds like you have great parents - you are lucky!! God bless, brother :) Your sister in Christ.

[@Seliz463]

This is one of the most beautiful episodes I’ve heard so far. Every married man and woman (or those discerning marriage) should listen to it

[@fragwagon]

Love seeing Scott Hahn looking like a proper old biblical Patriarch....haha....great man.

[@crystald3346]

Matt, too! Loving it!!

[@bonohyogurt]

"I bring you these 15... (drops stone)... 10 commandments!" Seriously though, Dr. Hahn with Matt Fradd! Awesome!

[@tnt655]

That was an awesome show! I love Scott Hahn! He has such a great personality, and love for God, scripture that it inspires me! He is one of the deciding factors that led me to becomie a Catholic. When I was doing my research on Catholicism I found Keith Nester who led me to Scott Hahn, Steve Ray, Patrick Madrid, and Matt Fradd at Pints With Aquinas! Being overly bright is not a burden I walk through life with, so I am grateful to have men like these to walk me through the Gospel! God Bless

[@billsd13]

I almost left the Church back in 1998. Scott Hahn and Steve Ray were two of the most influential reasons I stayed Catholic and I have seen them both as guests just this past week. What a blessing.

[@catherinechiara8944]

Father Donald Calloway has a fabulous history of the Rosary . Now when I recite the Rosary it has become so meaningful.

[@spinvalve]

Refreshingly grounded, honest and humble conversation. Love it.

[@simonluzny2487]

This is a COLLOSAL conversation, the second half is unbelievably important, thank you Mr. Hahn, thank you Matt.

[@JamesWilliams-eu5mn]

Scott Hahn has such gift for making complex teachings so simple even a knuckle dragger like me can understand

[@atn2018]

Agree... He knows so much everything is in his fingertips and making it's so interesting and easy to understand...

[@j.r.r5863]

Scott Hahn played such a humongous role in my reversion back into the church. I became an agnostic when I was 22, and when I slowly began making my way back to faith, his books gave me a huge push towards the church. God bless these men. God is working through them in so many souls and only In eternity they’ll be aware of how many they have helped.

[@mariab.774]

@Jess Really glad to hear this.

[@Rugbylacroose4life]

God Bless Dr Hahn, God Bless you Matt! Thank you gentlemen!!

[@Medico9814]

"If the man is the head of the home then the woman is the heart of the home and if the man has primacy in the order of authority then the woman has primacy in the order of love"st augustine Amen Dr Scott Hahn

[@ryanskol83]

Rome Sweet Home is one of the most important books of our time.

[@olevam1]

I find the intensity of Dr. Hahn in speaking about Christ intoxicating

[@jesseholthaus8357]

This is phenomenal. It’s so refreshing to here him get so down to earth and authentic

[@tellingtruthexperiencingli9355]

Matt, have you thought of having Casey Cole on your show. He runs several social media outlets for Evangelism. His KZbin channel is called Breaking in the Habit. He is a Franciscan Father. I am not a Catholic but have found is ministry profound.

[@emfun13]

That would be amazing!

[@Hope-fj4ep]

I’d also love to see that!

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

His video wherein he sings the praises of Karl Rahner and sees Church history as everything up to 1965 and then everything since 1965 was enough for me to raise a huge red flag. I’m not going to waste my time listening to the musings of a fanboy of such a notorious heretic like Rahner. I’ll stick to people who are faithful to Church teaching.

[@Rosary-Crusader]

God bless you both! Love that about blessing children. I do this to my wife and children every day.

[@GilbertoPorter]

Thank you. You both speak to my experience as a husband and father. Thank you and thanks to the Holy Spirit for bringing me such illumination and encouragement through this show today. GOD is with you.

[@Koolyococo]

This conversation is worth more than gold 🌟 ❤️ 🙏🏼

[@BJGorman754]

You should get Father Chad Ripperger on your show

[@dmm3843]

Literally just had the same thought!

[@crystald3346]

💯💯💯💯

[@maura.nava.music.]

YES

[@dorisodonnell2948]

Matt, great talk. Actually my all-time favorite talk. Thank you gentlemen for being real. We Catholics are blessed to have you both to help us understand our faith better. Thank you Matt & Mr. Hahn!

[@thecatholicdad724]

I could listen to these two talk all day.

[@ThePadilla7]

Matt fanboying over Scott Hahn is all of us

[@SuperRuthJ]

It has been a year that my husband passed away, my kids and I missed him so much.

[@fragwagon]

Prayers for you and the kids, and for your husband's soul! My father died when I was very young. I am almost 50 years old now, God has been faithful.

[@annmarie3573]

I'm so sorry for your loss, Maria! Prayers right now for you and your family.

[@kalebarcher2729]

I got to see Dr. Hahn at SEEK2019, and I looked through my notes after both his break out session and Keynote, and I thought, wow, five full pages of notes for each talk, I envy his students!!! Also Matt, as a long time listener and fan, I must say, you quarantine beard is the best I've seen! Thank you for doing this interview!!!

[@phillipkapler8319]

Many interesting facets to this jewel of an interview. The one that fixed my attention most intensely was the part about "finding THE right person" as a spouse. The topic is especially interesting to me because free will within Providence, participating in and becoming sacrament, the interplay between temporality and eternity. Everyone marries the only person that is right for them; not due to chemistry, or outlook or emotional compatibility. Any married person knows that these dimensions of the relationship are tested in very short order. What makes the other person the only person with whom we can share this existence is what WE do. We pledge to one another before God and Man to love, honor and cherish. That oath can only be fulfilled in a monogomous, exclusive intimate relationship. By saying "I Do", we make the other person the perfect match for us for the rest of our natural lives. We may not come to each other as the ideal match someone who knows us well might have selected, or for that matter, if we knew them more completely, the ideal person we imagined marrying ourselves. The moment, however, that we utter those vows, we become transformed by the sacrament, and we transform each other; we take on a new identity, which can no longer be described without mention of the connection that marriage forms. Yes, we are all married to the "perfect" mate! We made each other into that person without whom our most important reason for living would be estranged were we ever to shrink from, reneg upon, or dishonor that noble, holy oath.

[@emfun13]

This is one of favorite interviews you have ever done I got so much inspiration for how I want my family to be with my husband as the spiritual father and myself the leader of love it’s so beautiful and it felt like something I needed to hear. The information about cremation was very interesting Also! Thank you so much!

[@DanielFranks3]

This is a conversation I needed to hear

[@carlosd4881]

Love it! Thank you for inviting Scott Hahn. Btw the older Scott Hahn gets the more he looks just like Padre Pio haha God bless your show!

[@matthewcruz1709]

Can't wait for this. Bless you both.

[@mariselabecerra1675]

I hope you can have this subtitled in Spanish soon, so my husband can listen to it, please, Matt! I also hope Dr. Hahn and you give advise for us wives whose husbands' don't take the spiritual leadership! We get obliged to be the (only) leader at home, it's sad and lonely, like there's no real marriage, no real compromise...

[@dianemarie8873]

☹ Pray to St Monica for her intercession.🙏

[@Anonymous-ml7mm]

I am in the same boat. Pray to St. Rita as well.

[@dmm3843]

I went through this as well, my husband came back to the Faith after going on a pilgrimage. He says between the arduous walking, praying, and all the priests alongside with us, he found it very manly. Something clicked within him and he hasn’t gone back. That was 6 years ago! On the feast of Pentecost! 🙏

[@ritawing1064]

You just got rid of the Seccion Femenina and you want this patronising drivel available in Spanish? Just go back 50 years in a time machine.

[@christophmagagna3014]

Matt Frad & Scott Hahn, you're a great inspiration! Praying for you & your families. God bless

[@deogratias273]

Thanks, men. This is so frank and down to earth - including - especially - the mistakes (been there, done that). So many great points! It's also a privilege to get to know you both better.

[@danielberg7860]

So wise and honest of him to move to the other side of the room in order not to be tempted. And even more honest, I guess, to tell us about this!

[@imam3559]

He has such a beautiful reflection of God the Father. When he speaks of his marriage or just about his wife, it always makes me swoon. A lot like my own husband😁.

[@Dogboy1092]

This has been such an amazing genuine interview. Thanks Matt and Dr Hann

[@CristianaCatólica]

GOD BLESS U GUYS

[@pop6997]

This is amazingly sweet. Thankyou so much!

[@1004abd]

Wow two favorite humans!

[@ThePadilla7]

Wow to be known by Scott Hahn.

[@cbgardner123]

May have been the best episode yet. I have so much to learn in seeing my bride as Christ does.

[@Vereglez-d4z]

❤️ Scott Hahn

[@crystald3346]

Celebrityhood impedes sainthood. Gold!

[@crystald3346]

Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, but to raise us from spiritual death Christ died. Something to think about.

[@crystald3346]

I can’t keep up with everything I want to highlight, everything is amazing lol. Praise God!!

[@dinkobuntic2698]

Again excellent!God bless you!

[@gogr2409]

Just fantastic! Thank you and prayers for continued blessings to you all. 🙏🏻

[@misbehavens]

The St. Paul Center is a great resource. I love their Journey Through Scripture video series.

[@MasterHackerChannel]

I loved the talk, especially the discussion on the the resurrected bodies!!

[@jordand5732]

Grateful for the honesty in the discussion. Refreshing

[@SuperRuthJ]

You both men are great teachers. God bless you and your families!

[@borneandayak6725]

GREAT AMAZING INTERVIEW!!!

[@jake6132]

Matt, this is one of the best interviews I've seen. Thank you.

[@RitchButch]

Great advice Scott is one of my mentor in my walk daily with the Lord

[@11bluerosexoxo]

love them melancholics..I feel amongst my kind

[@roserose28]

Thanks Matt for this wonderful education with the inspirational Scott Hahn really enjoyed it. I’m going to listen to it again and again to try take it all in.

[@sandragoss48]

My Children & Grandchildren & I love to play Tenzi together. It is a dice game.

[@ludivinabentadan1243]

Excellent interview. God bless you both.

[@Jeni10]

This covid crisis has been a great leveller, forcing us all to spend time with our families and to look out for our friends as well as the lonely and the sick, etc. I feel like this is God preparing us for the Illumination of Conscience. Perhaps I'm wrong but this seems like the time to experience it, while we have been largely removed from worldly things and from focusing on money, partying and spectator sports. I'm sure that no matter how well we are prepared for it, it's going to be a shock to each of us, but the way to respond is with humility and obedience, not fear and despair. Any thoughts on this, Matt?

[@vinacabahug5301]

Both are my favorite speakers in one vid. 😍😊☺

[@boastonlyinthecross]

Why did it take me one year to find this treasure??!

[@trnslash]

Hoping that you bring on E. Michael Jones one day to discuss Logos

[@TonyTones123]

Free AND anonymous. What a lad.

[@crystald3346]

this is so exciting!!!

[@jasminabudzinska2696]

Matt, troughout the conversation you repeat several times that it's so great and so important that dr Hahn talks about his failures and mistakes because a lot of men can have idealised view of what the life of other families look like and being honest about the imperfections can lift up their spirit. At the same time you and dr Hahn both talk about your wives as if they were these perfect, flawless, strong, always loving superwomen. You make it seem like you, as men, were the only ones that need improving in your marriages. And that just makes me, as a woman, feel miserable and like I will never marry a godly man because I'm not worthy of that because I'm not like your wives. Think about that, please.

[@GalaxiaTokyo]

That's a great point! It was a very one-sided conversation.

[@catherinechiara8944]

Hi Jasmina. You are not like the wives of these two gentlemen because every human being is unique and we are all worthy in God's eyes. Padre Pio said, Pray, fast and don't worry. Do not worry. When you find the right husband, both of you will bring your own gifts to your precious marriage.

[@jasminabudzinska2696]

@@catherinechiara8944 thank you!

[@Seliz463]

@@jasminabudzinska2696 you are worthy of being loved like that because it’s God’s will for a husband to love his wife like that. Scott and Matt aren’t perfect and they know their wives aren’t either. No one is perfect. Their love and admiration for their wives is not dependent on the woman meeting an unrealistic ideal. They are true men of God, they understand that their role is to love their wives as Christ loves the church, and focus on their own flaws and spiritual development. Every woman is worthy of being loved as God commands her husband to love her, because it has nothing to do with “worth.” It’s about grace and obeying the Lord. Embrace that you are worth being loved so thoroughly, by a humble and self-reflective man, exactly as you are! And pray to keep growing in your own virtue so you can love him properly too, in all his humanness and imperfection. Don’t let husbands and marriages like the Hahn’s and Fradd’s discourage you. Let them inspire you. God wants you to have a husband and marriage like that, and He doesn’t demand that either you or your spouse be “perfect” in order to receive it.

[@rootberg]

Thanks for your great show. I believe that the "Operation world" book Dr. Hahn mentioned, or a book similar to it, was mentioned by Dr. William Lane Craig as part of his daily devotional also. Must say that I thought this discussion was extremely enlightening and empowering even though I am currently living as a single catholic man.

[@briandering5633]

Thank you for this video. Amazing in so many ways

[@DomhnallOSuileabhainPrin-tm1fw]

Matt interview Joseph Pearce the catholic author.

[@deaglanuafhlaithbheartaigh8241]

Beannacht ort, a Dhomhnaill, prionsa Uí Shúileabháin!

[@CatholicaTV]

Thank you!

[@josephpasdo3986]

Wow I like Scott Hahn. Cool guy.

[@deogratias273]

Agility - does that mean I'll be able to dance with style?

[@Jkp1321]

Generation Z more than any current generation I think is going to be responsible for potentially making or breaking the fight for the family. So many of us are able to understand how multi-generational households and families worked to support each other by examining the past, but most of us come from divorced parents or rough marriages at best. Men must be spear in the fight for the family and retake their place.

[@SuperRuthJ]

I truly believe this Covid-19 was Gods way of bringing families together.

[@markcampolo577]

Thank you both ! I was just thinking to ask before you did so about praying with my children ! Thank you so much for this ! I feel now not so bad and will try a decade of the Rosary everynight and like you say it`s more impoortant to be consistent. God Bless all of you !

[@sandragoss48]

Cremation is often chosen because of the cost is much more affordable for the family. A traditional burial has become so expensive.

[@Anonymous-ml7mm]

Thanks

[@margokupelian344]

This is an extremely important topic for discussion: the importance and sanctity of the family. The concept of family is totally misinterpreted these days; It’s disintegrating and fading away bc of this misconception of it being patriarchal and bc of the feminist movement and the freedom of sex and the liberals. It’s sooo sad. We need to have more of this kind of public discussions, not only in traditional and religious circles but also to progressives. And What a disaster that would be. I’ve watched videos of traditional people talking with progressives and I’ve seen how heated and rude they can be. The Devil is showing himself in all his ugliness in our times. In my culture (I’m an Armenian Orthodox from the Middle East) there’s a saying that goes: the family is a miniature of a church, meaning, it’s a small church in itself with God being the head of the family, and it’s sacred. I believe those days are gone. I pray for the restoration of the family every single day more than anything else.

[@ehhhhhwhocares]

Excellent!

[@markcampolo577]

I wish I knew scripture as good as you both do so when I have conversations with my evangelical brothers so I could explain my faith better when they ask questions. Any suggestions to a cheat sheet of common questions and answers ?

[@mariab.774]

@mark campolo I'm not sure if you're asking this but Peter Kreeft's "Handbook of Christian Apologetics" is quite good and concise.

[@markcampolo577]

@@mariab.774 Thank you so much for suggesting this ! Yes, I will be sure to get this and read it ! God Bless you !

[@sashatesija9117]

October great month to be born in 🤣🤣👍

[@PVCGunita]

O_O THIS WILL BE AWESOME

[@marys4123]

As a woman from a family with a long line of abusive men who used the bible and the Catholic Church to subvert the girls from infancy these videos scare me to death. I'm trying to watch this with an open mind.

[@fragwagon]

It's hard to believe once you've been hurt. But there are good men out there. Not perfect, but good.

[@Seliz463]

It’s such a sinful perversion of Christ when abusive men use the Bible to harm women and children. The entire story of the Bible is men learning to grow a conscience and properly relate to the Lord so that they lay down power and domination and instead become humble servants and protectors of women and children. I have experienced this kind of generational abuse from men who would turn scripture into a weapon of satan as well, and I found this talk with Scott Hahn to be incredibly healing. He knows what Christianity is REALLY about, which is crushing the evil of abusiveness that lurks in the hearts of men. A godly Catholic man that I know from my church likes to say that the entirety of Biblical history can be summed up as the story of men learning how to love women as cherished, precious equals. Because that’s what was wrong with Adam, and what Christ came to fix. Adam didn’t know how to properly love Eve, he abandoned her to fend for herself. Jesus came to pay the price and show them what a real man looks like-He sacrifices himself every day to tenderly love and protect his family. No abusive man understands who Christ actually is.

[@mendrajewaru4268]

I do believe that one day scott and kimberly would be raised to the altar just like louise and zelle martin were.

[@naturegrace7134]

Hi Matt, how's it going? How is it possible to contact you about a speaking opportunity? I went on your website and sent emails to 2 or 3 different email addresses, and none of the emails went through. Thanks!

[@shepherdessinthefray]

Matt do you have a (free) Discord community?

[@PintsWithAquinas]

no

[@BindingTheYoke]

Hmmmmm,... basically Christ teaches us to be human in our body so that we may be truly divine.

[@pocketvelero]

What illness did he have?

[@jimmysheehan5496]

meh the take on men and women is pretty cold and I don't see how he gets that from scripture or tradition. basically men exist to make women feel good and women exist to correct men so they can make them feel good?

[@grayintheuk8021]

What sort of question is "How to be the Spiritual Leader of Your Family" What does 'spiritual' even mean as a word? I can meet 100 people of some 'faith' and get a 100 different ideas on the wishy washy claim of spiritualism. Also 'faith' is a what people use when they don't have any good evidence for their claim. Faith is not a pathway to the truth as anyone can believe any claim based on faith. The 9-11 people had faith in their god so is a useless term, very much like 'spiritual'. Besides it sound more like the sexist male being the head of the family, just cannot stand that especially not in 2021! Utter nonsense and a big thumbs down.

[@Seliz463]

Did you actually watch this video at all, or just have an extreme emotional response over the title?

[@grayintheuk8021]

@@Seliz463 Vent - yes I watched it and it was terrible. I will admit that I do have emotional responses to complete and utter BS spouted by people trying to control others,. Religion is a vile "virus" that becomes infected into our young brains usually by our parents as they were infected with this nonsense by their parents. Why "Oh why" Vent do you think for one second that there is a magical supernatural god watching you take a poop and have sex? When were you convinced and by whom? Be honest, your god is watching what you type, did you grow up with your god beliefs from being raised in a religious family, culture, community, school, or country?

[@Krshwunk]

As a Catholic ... I'll admit ... this was an utterly terrible interview. Shame on Scott Hahn. Shame on his institution if this his is way of teaching any one of his classes. No one should pay for this unintelligible garbage. Despicable. He obviously knew he was spouting drivel during his interview. He is still a protestant. He still needs to work that out before thrusting himself into the Catholic light. He has hurt the Church in the midst of not realizing this. He has only he own (lack of) masculinity to blame.

[@St.sebastiann]

Weird.. want to quote something you didn’t like?