What Caused the "Steubenville Explosion"? w/ Jeff Cavins

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Jeff talks about the unique circumstances surrounding the Movement of Grace coming from Steubenville in the mid-90s
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[@btsnoona_]

My parents were in Steubenville in the late 70's earlier 80's, I was born in Steubenville/ Wintersville in 1982 where my Dad grew up. My parents were sent to Birmingham AL and they started the Catholic Charismatic prayer group that is still going on today at OLS. I grew up not even a mile from EWTN... Both of my parents are gone now, but this makes me want to ask them so many questions... they both had extraordinary faith and I miss them so much.

[@servantofGod1a]

Please someone publish a book on this time period or make a documentary. It would be so amazing to fully understand how the impact that Franciscan U/Steubenville, OH has had on our Catholic Faith, came about.

[@lorrainepec7577]

Have those person on their programme Franciscan University Presents.

[@glennlanham6309]

amen

[@ashleylovepace1941]

I was a part of it as well. I came into the faith during the years he spoke of. We had a group of young people in Alexandria, Louisiana who many became national speakers and ministers in the Catholic faith. I think believing in God’s power and grace was a huge factor. Also, desire to change hearts and save souls. There was real fire.

[@ichthusthree]

I was at a Catholic Charismatic conference in Little Rock years ago & Ralph Martin, John Michael Talbot, & Fr Scanlon, wearing his red socks, all spoke & I was beyond joyful!

[@ichthusthree]

I miss those days❤

[@btsnoona_]

So powerful! I miss my parents leading the prayer meetings and they played John Michael Talbot in the car all the time. They were in Steubenville in the late 70s early 80s. They are both gone now, but I wish I could ask them about those times again...

[@iamcatholic_]

Mother Angelica, even after founding EWTN, said she remained humble because she always kept in mind that all good things come from God, all bad things come from us.

[@sabrinawanderer7560]

Amen.

[@gianne4228]

Jeff Cavins= a man of TRUE HUMILITY... I truly admire this man of God, great respect..so grateful we have him in our church. You radiate God's glory and Holiness Sir Jeff Cavins !

[@jkuebbing]

I’d add a 4th factor, and that’s the Chaput effect. The fact that so many of these apostolates came and incubated in Denver - and many remained - is a testament to +Chaput’s belief in the apostolic call of the laity. Coupled with, I’m sure, the knock on effect of grace from WYD 93. Loved this clip!

[@southbug27]

I’ve heard this mentioned before be a few different, great, Catholic apologists, & I’m fascinated by what happened. I also remember hearing that in the late 60s or 70s Steubenville almost closed its doors, but Fr Michael Scanlan took the school back to heterodox, conservative Catholicism to end the school on a good foot, but it caused the university to bounce back into THE Catholic college in America. I’m a Protestant, but I know this school & the explosion from it is a work of God. I think a lot of us would love a book or documentary about all this.

[@stormcrow1970]

I think you mean Fr. Scanlan brought FUS back to *ORTHODOX* Catholicism ;-)

[@viviennedunbar3374]

Orthodox beliefs = true beliefs, which are neither liberal or conservative there just ARE. Marriage is a Sacrament because it IS not because marriage is conservative or liberal.

[@bnguye44]

Wow - I've been significantly impacted by so many of the ministries mentioned in this video in the past few years and only now know that all of them came from a Steubenville band of friends. What an awesome parallel with the Apostles. As Our Lady and the Apostles gathered in the Upper Room awaiting for the Holy Spirit to descend upon them, all these ministry leaders gathered/incubated in Steubenville preparing to respond to a movement of the Holy Spirit. Our Lord commissioned and sent all them out to make disciples of all nations. He is working always. All glory to God!

[@bartv3780]

God bless Steubenville...a Catholic gem in America. 🙏🔥🙏

[@amythinks]

JPII died while I was in the grad program at Steubenville. I remember thinking we lost such an immense protector and patriarch. Then I also remember thinking in my very next thought that Father Scanlan was like that, too. JPII was for the Catholic world what Fr Scanlan was for Steubenville. I specifically thought that Father Scanlan was the only other figure that felt very much like JPII to me in the sense that he was such an incredible shepherd. And at the time he was still alive, well and leading the University.

[@watermain48]

Thank you both.

[@timothyjones5959]

Awesome discussion. Personally, I love both of these men and the ministries they have given to the world. Many things stuck. The big one was, “All of us are more wretched than we think we are.”

[@DomenicoBettinelli]

I was there with Jeff, Ted, Curtis and all the others in the Theology program between 92 and 96 too. It was as amazing as he says.

[@DrDBauer5]

DITTO DOM DITTO

[@DrDBauer5]

I was blessed to be studying there at the time and was blessed to have these folks as peers. Others I would mention: Eric and Nikki Westby, Dcn Bob Rice, Tom Nash, Jeff Fortenberry, Christa Lopiccola, Fr, John Klockeman Jim and Meg Beckmann, Eileen Spotts, Fr. Mark Ropel, Dan Stockman, Christina H, and so many others... this folks and their friends changed my life! It was truly a POWERFUL Spirit driven time!

[@MovedByBeauty]

Many faithful Catholics live near Steubenville! But we need more priests!

[@amythinks]

Actually, we need more Catholics.

[@MovedByBeauty]

Yes, we do! 1.3 billion so far...that's why I created my channel. It's full of Catholic songs. @@amythinks

[@ericlepanto4201]

First FUS alumni post 74 to be ordained for Steubenville diocese occurred in 2000. Diocese was opposed to the college for yrs.

[@iamcatholic_]

It’s great to witness Catholic communities form!

[@danabegley3550]

I remember when Jeff was Scott's TA and passed out paper copies of his time-line in class. Nothing was published yet and he was not known. We did Bible studies in Scott Hahn's house and I remember when Ted was living with Scott. What about Tom Nash and Jeff Fortenberry? We all knew each other

[@MAMABENEDIKT]

Agree, Tom and Fort were leading, as well.

[@glennlanham6309]

Headed up there today to walk the stage!!! Go Barons Go! This really would be a good book...well, I have my degree now, we will have to think about it...That IS 3 mighty powerhouses, Hahn, JPII, and Scanlan

[@sherryelysiak4798]

Great video. Thanks.

[@spmcg_]

Thought this referred to an actual explosion for a second 💀

[@Julian-qx2ei]

LOL same got me worried for a sec

[@mrbaker7443]

Click bait

[@CCisRight]

​@mrbaker7443 I would agree with you if there were no quotation marks around the word explosion.

[@MAMABENEDIKT]

Myself: Attended WYD 1993 (John Paul II), Started at Franciscan University of Steubenville 1994 (Fr. Mike and many, many others), Principles of Biblical Studies 1&2 (Dr. Minto and Dr. Hahn and Jeff Cavins as a sub for Scott Hahn (testing the Bible Timeline). Went on to be a religious sister for some years and now a wife and mother raising the future of our Church.

[@MAMABENEDIKT]

Though, Father Mike in person (day to day, not at Mass) was such a let down. He had a certain type and those were the ones he spoke to.

[@johnspizziri1919]

Beautiful

[@AJKPenguin]

KABOOM! Requiscat in pace for Father Scanlan. May you and St. JPII both pray for us and for Ohio. Aside: town's namesake is for General Von Steuben.

[@micheleweber7297]

Also, Chris Stefanick. He graduated in the late 90s. He was my youth minister (he was a senior at FUS at the time), and he made such an impact. Little did we know how big that impact would be!

[@joanvandeelen5218]

Yes, Jeff Cavins! Please write that book…

[@sabrinawanderer7560]

God bless..

[@danabegley3550]

i never looked at that time as the Steubenville explosion i just thought it had always been that way for years. Some of us went on to complete studies in Rome after we graduated like me and Ted and Mary Shovlain and her sister Linda Shovlain. Mary still lives in Rome and is a journalist there

[@huntsman528]

I agree. I teach my Protestant 4th graders that we are custodians of what God has given us. If He gives us a lot, we are responsible for all of it, but none of it is ours. This especially applies to money, but also children, power, authority, talents, and everything else.

[@infantesdei2202]

Matt, I am moving to Oakgrove Ave in Steubenville in 2024. Currently, I have a ministry house for Nigerian priests, but it may just convert into a ministry home for young children? Please pray for me in my discernment and move. I am a Glad Trad with dreams, but still testing the spirits. Take a peek at Rosarium Domus on Oakgrove Ave. Blessings in Jesus, B

[@louzher6968]

As a former FU student, I would have been more interested in hearing about how Fr. Scanlan participated in the coverup of the sexual abuse of a female student by Fr. David Morrier, as well as the many scandals plaguing the school in recent years, such as the plot by certain administrators to incorporate LGBT-friendly policies, as well as the scandals that led to Fr. Sean Sheridan having to resign as president. Franciscan University has had a cancer growing in it for some time, and parents who are interested in a genuinely Catholic education would be much better off sending their children to Christendom or St. Thomas Aquinas.

[@petercole5858]

Christendom and TA I am sure are wonderful. I am a proud Franciscan University alumni and I am sorry for those who were abused. That should never have happened, but that doesn't negate the work God has done. Whenever God's is being done, Satan will attack. That's what happened at Steubenville Steubenville and

[@petercole5858]

I am sure Satan is attacking Christendom and TA in some way.

[@clanausse]

JP II ❣️

[@KevinBello-sb8qm]

❤❤❤

[@gerry30]

Amazing how Gerry Matatics has been simply written out of history. It's like the Orwellian memory hole. There would possibly be no Catholic Scott Hahn without Gerry Matatics.

[@robertmiller1299]

I’m English and we don’t say ‘extraordinary’ much like that!

[@lauracaponegro6811]

Don t forget the great infusion of the Dominican presence in the 1980s(?) starting with Fr. Giles Dimock, OP and the contributions of Drs. Regis Martin and Mark Miravelli from the Angelicum in Rome.

[@rafaellajara3623]

It the movement of the Holy Spirit. It's only him.

[@jimjessup5041]

Mother Angelica was influential to the mood of the time, and of course JP 2

[@pl8154]

I don't believe GK Chesterton was a member or a guest of the Inklings in corporeal form, although I have no doubt his ideas were ever present through his writings.

[@ChuckyLarms]

Yeah you might rephrase the title of this video…..

[@ericlepanto4201]

1974 vision begins with Scanlan. 1984 school gains full steam. Blossoming occurs in 90s

[@jamestrotter3162]

The apostle Paul would say, " Follow me, even as I follow Christ." But if I don't follow Christ, then don't dare follow me."

[@edwardbell9795]

Chesterton wasn't one of the Inklings.

[@trueblueclue]

I keep pronouncing Pronounced Steubenville in German. Shtoybenfilluh

[@MadhatterOfMankind]

Well now I can't quit saying it. Shtoybenfilluh. Hard to believe they pronounce words so differently

[@InfoArtistJKatTheGoodInfoCafe]

The Holy Spirit.

[@danabegley3550]

I was there at that time from 94 to 96 where are the women? I knew these guys and was in class with them

[@laurants]

I think Jeff is wrong. Yes, the same exact group of people is not duplicatable but different people can come together under similar circumstances to take ministries in a new direction. Especially in a Novus Ordo-style Church that wants lay people to do more and more.

[@viviennedunbar3374]

All through the history of the Church the Holy Spirit has inspired and used people who obeyed him, it just can look different depending on the historical moment and the culture.

[@AJKPenguin]

It will be a while but it's definitely possible. As Ohio's motto goes: _With God, all things are possible._

[@theignorantcatholic]

How do I convince my wife that America isn't crazy so that we can come live there with ya'll?

[@viviennedunbar3374]

You can’t. She needs to come to the USA DESPITE its craziness if you are both called to be in the USA. Just like we are called to be devout Catholics DESPITE the corruption and craziness in the Church.

[@theignorantcatholic]

I guess my comment was somewhat a joke? As for discernment of calling. Perhaps you can provide your thoughts on the best way to discern callings with your wife around things like this. That is if I was feeling a deep yearning to go to the US but didn't know whether it was a calling etc for my family. This is an interesting question... Personally, I feel that guiding your family is your calling and if you feel a yearning and your wife doesn't, perhaps your yearning is to merely help you guide your family in a particular spiritual discernment which leads to a calling toward another direction as a family. The yearning just helped facilitate it. For we all often yearn for heaven now and the things that are a part of that vision. But it is God who is sovereign over all these things. @@viviennedunbar3374