Podcasts about spanish air force

Today Justin sits down with Luis Munar Duran. Luis received his law degree from the University of Valencia in Spain and was a practicing attorney for nearly 20 years beginning in 1998. He's also a certified pilot and served as a reserve officer in the Spanish Air Force. Luis also has extensive training and experience in security and human rights issues. In 2012, After traveling to Aleppo, Syria to build a refugee camp and help train guerrilla fighters there, Luis was recruited by the Spanish intelligence agency known as CNI to gather intelligence on their behalf in Syria. But despite his efforts and the risks that he took, the relationship eventually turned sour and left Luis very regretful that he'd cooperated with them at all. Today he discusses his experiences in Syria, both before and after he was recruited by the CNI, and what he did to rebuild his life and reputation in the years afterwards.Connect with Luis:Check out Luis's book, Syria...Carne de cañon, only available in Spanish, here.https://www.amazon.com/Siria-carne-ca%C3%B1on-patria-Spanish/dp/B0D669H62WConnect with Spycraft 101:Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.spycraft101.comIG: @spycraft101Shop: shop.spycraft101.comPatreon: Spycraft 101Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.Support the Show.

Eurofighter jets from the Spanish and German air forces arrived at the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Chitose base in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, on Friday to participate in joint training with the ASDF.

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force is set to hold joint military exercises involving fighter jets from Germany, France and Spain next month, marking the first time that any Spanish air force aircraft visit Japan.

In this episode of The Weekly Defence Podcast, we discuss Russia's efforts to develop a tactical hypersonic weapon, talk to Defence Insight's Analyst-Air Ilker Aktasoglu about contemporary training aircraft capabilities, and in an interview with Supacat we find out about some of the company's vehicle technology programmes in the broader context of UK defence policy.Newsround General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced on 1 December that it has delivered two more Block 5 Reaper UAVs and a ground control station to the Spanish Air Force.Also on 1 December, Oshkosh Defense announced its second largest ever order for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles and associated equipment, including two new customers.And with this week's virtual I/ITSEC in mind, we report on moves in the UK to broaden the use of virtual reality technology for training British soldiers.The USN has declared a second major naval platform loss due to fire damage in less than a decade, after the decision was taken to decommission the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard.News in Focus News Editor Ben Vogel discusses moves in Russia to develop a tactical hypersonic missile called Klevok-D2.  What are its characteristics and how is Russia planning to deploy it?** Following the latest Coordinated Annual Review on Defence report , the European Defence Agency is looking to develop and procure next-generation MBTs for member states. Several countries are set to modernise and upgrade their in-service platforms in the short term. Land Reporter Flavia Camargos Pereira looks at the advantages of joint programmes. In the air domain, Air Editor Tim Martin looks at recent deliveries to the British Army of remanufactured AH-64E V6 Apache helicopters and considers how the fleet might complement the army's capabilities.Deep Dive: A conversation with Defence InsightSenior Editor – Naval Richard Thomas grabs a chat with Defence Insight Senior Analyst-Air Ilker Aktasoglu, for insight on the current market for training aircraft in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Interview – Supacat News Editor Ben Vogel is on the line with Phil Applegarth, director and head of Supacat, and Steve Austen, Supacat engineering director and chief engineer, to discuss recent developments and future prospects for vehicle technology programmes.

The expression of “As above so below”on this #palindrome date at 11° Libra The Manises UFO incident took place on 11 November 1979, forcing a commercial flight of the Spanish company Transportes Aéreos Españoles, with 109 passengers, to make an emergency landing at the Manises' airport in Valencia, Spain,when they were flying over Ibiza.After the emergency landing, a Spanish Air Force fighter aircraft took off from Los Llanos Base in order to intercept the mysterious object #HAPPYBIRTHDAY 1493 Paracelsus, Swiss physician and alchemist (Zinc, Laudanum), born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. 1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) who helped shape literary modernism and existentialism, born in Moscow. 1914 Daisy Bates, American civil rights activist and publisher, born in Huttig, Union County Arkansas. 1926 Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing car driver (first woman to complete in Formula One), born in Naples. 1927 Mose Allison, American jazz artist (Black Country Suite), born in Tippo, Mississippi (d. 2016) #skystrology --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/akacloudette/message

On this episode of the UNKNOWN UFO podcast, Jason McClellan details a fascinating UFO incident witnessed by thousands of residents of the Spanish Canary Islands in 1976—an incident thoroughly investigated by the Spanish Air Force.

Resolute Support Mission service members of three different nationalities (Australian, Danish and Spanish) send Christmas greetings home from Kabul, Afghanistan. Soundbites available in Danish, English and Spanish. Transcript (00:00:00) Private Jack Sendall, 6 RAR Australian Force, works in force protection at RSHQ, Kabul - Christmas shout-out (ENGLISH) G´day all. Private Jack Sendall here from the Australian NSE in Kabul with the Australian force protection. Just want to wish everyone very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Hope everyone has a safe holidays. Also, big shout-out to everyone back home, mom and dad, my sisters, love you heaps! (00:00:15) Private Jack Sendall and Private Jay Nykvist Christmas soundbites (ENGLISH) G´day Private Sendall here from the Australian NSE with the Australian force protection here in Kabul. So we have been here for about four months now, it´s been great so far. Coming up we are gonna be spending Christmas here. It´s should be a really good day. I´m sure we are gonna all have nice dinner with our family upstairs, should be great. To give you more info, I´ll bring someone in. I´ll allow him to introduce himself, you are the man of the hour. (In walks Private Jay Nykvist wearing a Christmas sweater). G´day everyone. How´s it going? Private Nykvist here. So what we have got for Christmas this holidays is spending it in this lovely three storey complex. We are going to start off with some ripper coffees in the morning, get the brain going. Then what do you reckon we’ll do? (Private Sendall replies): Ah mate, I think, a bit of family time... (Private Nykvist continues): A bit of family time with the boys. (Private Sendall): Open some Christmas presents. (Private Nykvist): The boys, they make it. (Private Sendall): We are going to be opening Christmas presents as well. (Private Nykvist): If we get some. (Private Sendall): Yes, if we have been good this year. (Private Nykvist): And Merry Christmas to everyone back home! (Private Sendall): Yes, Merry Christmas! . (00:01:11) Lt.Col. Michael Lodberg, planner at Resolute Support Headquarters, Kabul. Christmas shout-out (DANISH) Hi my name is Michael Lodberg. I work as a planner at the headquarters in Kabul. This year, I will not be with the people I love the most during Christmas Eve because I will celebrate Christmas here in Kabul. Fortunately, I can spend the time together with my Nordic friends in the Palace behind me, the ‘Nordic Palace’ (the Nordic NSE) and I´m looking forward to that. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you back home. I´ll see you in the new year! (00:01:32) Lt.Col. Michael Lodberg, planner at Resolute Support Headquarters, Kabul. Christmas interview (DANISH). Hi my name is Michael Lodberg. I work as a planner at the headquarters in Kabul. This year, I will not be with my family and the people I love the most during Christmas, because I will celebrate Christmas here in Kabul. I´m lucky that I can celebrate Christmas together with my Nordic friends and Danish comrades in the house behind me, which is the ‘Nordic Palace’ (the Nordic NSE), where there will be 5-6 of us together on Christmas Eve. Fortunately we have been sent food from Denmark so we can have proper Christmas dinner and I think it will be a very nice Christmas evening. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you back home! (00:02:05) A group of Spanish soldiers say Christmas and New Year greetings in Spanish. (00:02:09) Corporal Alvaro Lozano Miranda, assistant of the Spanish NSE at Resolute Support Headquarters, Kabul. Christmas shout-out video (English and Spanish). Hello! I’m Corporal Lozano from Spanish NSE here in HQ, Kabul and I wish you [in Spanish] Merry Christmas and happy New Year! (00:02:18) Corporal Alvaro Lozano Miranda, assistant of the Spanish NSE at Resolute Support Headquarters, Kabul. Christmas interview video (English and Spanish). Hello I’m Corporal Lozano here in the NSE of Spain, here in HQ in Kabul and I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And I will spend my Christmas here with all the people of Spain who are far away from their families and we support all of them. (00:02:59) Major Rafael Gonzalez Cámara, Spanish Air Force, working in Assessment and analysis group / strategy and plans (CJ5) in Resolute Support Headquarters, Kabul. Christmas shout-out (SPANISH). Hi! This is Major Cámara from Spanish Air Force. I’m at Resolute Support Headquarters Assessment and Analysis group. (In Spanish) Merry Christmas! (00:03:09) Major Rafael Gonzalez Cámara, Spanish Air Force, working in Assessment and analysis group / strategy and plans (CJ5) in Resolute Support Headquarters, Kabul – Christmas interview. Hello everybody. I’m Major Cámara, Spanish Air Force. I’m assigned to the Resolute Support headquarters in the assessment and analysis group. I’m will plan to…I’m planning to spend Christmas eve here with the rest of the Spanish detachment, probably we will do it quite traditional way, just having a nice dinner then sing carols and spend some time together, remembering or families and relatives in Spain. Well, we will try to prepare some kind of Spanish dishes, maybe not Paella because it’s during the night but we will try to do it in a Spanish way. (00:03:50) Group of Puerto Rico Army National Guard soldiers say Christmas greetings (Spanish) (00:04:19) Various Puerto Rico Army National Guard soldiers say Christmas greetings (English)

The Vigil Run is an annual charity run organised by NATO’s southern Combined Air Operations Centre in Torrejón, Spain. It pays tribute to the fallen and veterans of all NATO Allies. National detachments run in formation, passing a baton to the next nation. This year, funds raised will be donated to a military charity for children who have lost a parent serving with the Spanish Air Force. This shows solidarity among Allies and recognises the sacrifice made for a safe and secure Alliance. Participating countries include Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Apart from national teams, the Torrejón Air Base police team ran with their dogs. Includes footage of the run, interviews with participants and with the Commander of NATO’s southern Combined Air Operations Centre at Torrejón, Spain.

Javier chats about his basic training, the F/A-18 Hornet course and what it is like to fly in the Spanish Air Force. He also includes DACT stories, working with NATO countries and the strengths and weaknesses of the Hornet. Join the crew - https://www.patreon.com/aircrewinterview

In Spain, the battle for Catalonia carries on with allegations of a Madrid witch hunt by Artur Mass. There are kidnap fears for the crew of a Spanish Air Force helicopter after a crash near the Canary Islands. There is a mystery over disappearance of three crew members who were earlier said to have been rescued by Moroccan authorities after their craft ditched in the sea. A Briton has been found dead in a Benidorm police cell. Spanish police say Antony Abbott's partner Catherine Corless had contacted police to report him for hitting her in Benidorm hotel. European Parliament votes to stop EU agricultural subsidies being used to support bullfighting in Spain in latest blow to traditional activity. Almost two-thirds of people in the UK say they do not feel any sense of European identity – a far higher proportion than in other EU countries, a new poll has revealed.......Apart from this poll a battle royal reigned in parliament this week as George Osborne tried to make his welfare cuts. The Lords defeated his strategy just as it was revealed more than £1billion in tax credits is lost to fraud and error every year, Some £29billion was paid in tax credits to 4.7million claimants by HM Revenue and Customs in 2013/14, official figures show. So what else is making Britain great? Kim Farry, 54, lives rent free in a flat in Fulham and collects up to £250-per-week in cash handouts so believes that finding a normal job would force her to take a pay cut......Abdulrahman Abunasir submitted an asylum claim while serving a jail-term for sexually assaulting a woman in London but is blocking deportation attempts by claiming he is a Syrian refugee.........Former corporal Paul Vice, 32, who is known as 'the commando who refused to die', was left stunned after he claims staff told him he could not use the disabled toilet at a sports centre in Exeter, Devon............Bryony Hollands, 19, died when Thomas Burney, 26, mounted a kerb at 70mph and careered into her and her boyfriend Ben Evans, 20, in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, at about 12.30pm on August 21.”............A female PE teacher faces jail today after she admitted having a sexual relationship with two pupils and was caught in bed with them at the same time...............and a boy has been fatally stabbed at a secondary school in Aberdeen at lunchtime. Just when will the authorities look more closely at the content on UK TV?......Twisted monsters, vicious murders and even a family burned alive in their home – all of this can be found in just the first episode of Jekyll and Hyde, which is set to broadcast on ITV at 6.30pm

In Spain, the battle for Catalonia carries on with allegations of a Madrid witch hunt by Artur Mass. There are kidnap fears for the crew of a Spanish Air Force helicopter after a crash near the Canary Islands. There is a mystery over disappearance of three crew members who were earlier said to have been rescued by Moroccan authorities after their craft ditched in the sea. A Briton has been found dead in a Benidorm police cell. Spanish police say Antony Abbott's partner Catherine Corless had contacted police to report him for hitting her in Benidorm hotel. European Parliament votes to stop EU agricultural subsidies being used to support bullfighting in Spain in latest blow to traditional activity. Almost two-thirds of people in the UK say they do not feel any sense of European identity – a far higher proportion than in other EU countries, a new poll has revealed.......Apart from this poll a battle royal reigned in parliament this week as George Osborne tried to make his welfare cuts. The Lords defeated his strategy just as it was revealed more than £1billion in tax credits is lost to fraud and error every year, Some £29billion was paid in tax credits to 4.7million claimants by HM Revenue and Customs in 2013/14, official figures show. So what else is making Britain great? Kim Farry, 54, lives rent free in a flat in Fulham and collects up to £250-per-week in cash handouts so believes that finding a normal job would force her to take a pay cut......Abdulrahman Abunasir submitted an asylum claim while serving a jail-term for sexually assaulting a woman in London but is blocking deportation attempts by claiming he is a Syrian refugee.........Former corporal Paul Vice, 32, who is known as 'the commando who refused to die', was left stunned after he claims staff told him he could not use the disabled toilet at a sports centre in Exeter, Devon............Bryony Hollands, 19, died when Thomas Burney, 26, mounted a kerb at 70mph and careered into her and her boyfriend Ben Evans, 20, in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, at about 12.30pm on August 21.”............A female PE teacher faces jail today after she admitted having a sexual relationship with two pupils and was caught in bed with them at the same time...............and a boy has been fatally stabbed at a secondary school in Aberdeen at lunchtime. Just when will the authorities look more closely at the content on UK TV?......Twisted monsters, vicious murders and even a family burned alive in their home – all of this can be found in just the first episode of Jekyll and Hyde, which is set to broadcast on ITV at 6.30pm

In this episode we talk about engine failures, I chat to a friend about his time as an F-18 pilot in the Spanish Air Force and of course listener squawks. I've discovered these great new podcasts : The Maiden Flight Podcast www.maidenflightpodcast.com Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase www.bettyinthesky.net Xtended Podcast aviation-xtended.co.uk   Pablo has written and published a book on the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The book is called Barbarossa 0300 (or Barbaroja 0300) by Pablo Vallecillo. It will be availble soon in hardback in Spanish and English and as an e-book.   Squawkbox Antoine provided feedback with a link to this BEA report  http://www.bea.aero/etudes/thielert.tae125.engines/thielert.tae125.engines.pdf and this video  http://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/albertville-crash-d-un-petit-avion-de-tourisme-dans-une-zone-habitee/3256454263001/ Tim sent a link to this video entitled 'Dangerous Landing https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=662561757203045 Thanks also to Heath Gleason and Tim Flood for their squawks.   Enjoy, Pip

  Fiveofthebest.podomatic.com     The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European AirwaysFlight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway atMunich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was theManchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists.[1] Twenty of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash     The new wing design was extremely thin, with a thickness-to-chord ratio of only 3.36% and an aspect ratio of 2.45. The wing's leading-edges were so thin (0.016 in/0.41 mm) and sharp that they presented a hazard to ground crews, and protective guards had to be installed during ground operations. The safety record of the F-104 Starfighter became high-profile news, especially in Germany, in the mid-1960s. In West Germany it came to be nicknamed Witwenmacher ("The Widowmaker"). Some operators lost a large proportion of their aircraft through accidents, although the accident rate varied widely depending on the user and operating conditions; the German Air Force lost about 30% of aircraft in accidents over its operating career,[38] and Canada lost over 50% of its F-104s.[39] The Spanish Air Force, however, lost none.[40][41] 15,000 metres (49,000 ft) in 131.1 seconds 20,000 metres (66,000 ft) in 222.99 seconds 25,000 metres (82,000 ft) in 266.03 seconds             Zenith engineer, Eugene Polley created the "Flash-matic" the first wireless TV remote in 1955. The Flash-matic operated by means of four photocells, one in each corner of the TV screen. The viewer used a directional flashlight to activate the four control functions, which turned the picture and sound on and off, and turned the channel tuner dial clockwise and counter-clockwise.           By definition the integrated circuit aka microchip is a set of interconnected electronic components such as transistors and resistors, that are etched or imprinted on a onto a tiny chip of a semiconducting material, such as silicon or germanium. Jack Kilby, an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas Instrumentsin 1958. A year earlier, research engineer Robert Noyce had co-founded the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. From 1958 to 1959, both electrical engineers were working on an answer to the same dilemma: how to make more of less. jack kilby's first integrated curcuit         The traitorous eight are eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957, due to a conflict withWilliam Shockley, to form Fairchild Semiconductor.      Fairchild Bill   robert noyce   15 min video about traitorous eight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLNh4UY5ohw     In 1958 and 1961, the American Air Force lost nuclear weapons over the skies of South and North Carolina, respectively, raining potential apocalypse on the folks below. In both incidents, complete catastrophe was avoided thanks to that ever-potent combination of foresight and unmitigated dumb luck. And in the former incident, the bomb fell square on some unsuspecting children's playhouse.     Unlike the 1958 mishap, the Goldsboro crash could have had dire consequences for the Tar Heel State. As the bombs' deactivator Dr. Jack Revelle later admitted, "How close was it to exploding? My opinion is damn close.            In 1957, a B-36 accidentally salvoed a hydrogen bomb though it's bay doors while on approach to Kirtland AFB. The core was installed but didn't detonate, the conventional explosives did set off, scattering radioactive debris over a large swath of scrub land. In the early 90's the area was still restricted due to radiation concerns.

**Today's host(s):** Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines **Today's guest(s):** Fr. Martin Hyatt, bso, and Paul Blanchette * [National Cursillo Center](http://www.cursillo.org/) * [Boston Cursillo](http://www.bostoncursillo.org/index.html) * [St. Basil Salvatorian Center](http://saintbasils.org/html/salvatorian_center.html) **Today's topics:** The Cursillo ministry **A summary of today's show:** Fr. Martin Hyatt and Paul Blanchette talk with Scot and Fr. Chip about Cursillo, its origins, its aims, its wonderful fruits and just what a Cursillo weekend is all about. **1st segment:** Scot welcomes Fr. Chip back to show as a substitute co-host for Fr. Matt Williams who is still traveling. The radio studio for The Good Catholic Life is dedicated to Bl. John Paul and today would have been his 91st birthday. Today is also the 50th broadcast of The Good Catholic Life. On today's show, we will discuss Cursillo. Many people of faith throughout the archdiocese that Scot admires have the common background of having lived a Cursillo, including Cardinal Seán. Fr. Chip said he's seen how the Cursillo brings people closer to Christ. **2nd segment:** Scot and Fr. Chip welcome Fr. Martin Hyatt and Paul Blanchette to The Good Catholic Life. Paul said he has been involved with Cursillo for about 20 years and that's where he met Fr. Martin on his own weekend. It takes place in Framingham and Methuen. Fr. Martin has been general spiritual director since 1994 and has been helping with Cursillo since he was ordained in 1984.  Fr. Martin said Cursillo comes from the Spanish word meaning course and it means literally "little course" or "a short course." The full name is a "short course in Christianity." It was born in Majorca, Spain, where the bishop was meeting regularly with a group of men and they were planning a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compestela. First it was delayed by the Spanish Civil War and then by the World War, and all this time the men grew tighter and tighter together. So this weekend experience took place and caught on like wildfire. It traveled to mainland Spain to Portugal to France and Italy and all over Europe. It came to the US through the US Air Force. During an exchange with the Spanish Air Force at the Air Force base in Waco, TX, the American airmen noticed their enthusiasm and made their Cursillo. The Cursillo came to Boston in 1963 and the first one at the St. Basil center in 1969. Fr. Martin said Cursillo is not a retreat. It's a method. It's how we develop a deep and intimate relationship with Jesus and how we live to serve him. The tripod of Cursillo is piety, study, and action, or holiness, formation, and evangelization. This is the foundation. Holiness begins the relationship with Christ, formation feeds the relationship, and evangelization brings it out to others. Scot said many people might have gone through religious education to learn facts about their faith. What makes Cursillo so much more powerful and different and so impactful in 4 days? Fr. Martin said the short answer is the Holy Spirit. The long answer is three full days of time and no distractions: no watches, no cellphones, nothing like that. They take off the masks: cool and macho. Instead they talk in a simple, non-threatening way about things that really matter. Like on the road to Emmaus, the disciples comment that their hearts were burning when Jesus taught them. Fr. Chip said he often saw parishioners, especially men, who would go on Cursillo would come back without the tough veneer and demeanor they left with. Fr. Martin said God breaks through if we are open and receptive. The deepest desire of our heart is our salvation. God created us to love and to be loved. So when Cursillo talks about things that really matter, it touches the hearts' deepest longing. He hears many stories on the reunions that take place one month later about people who have begun to reach out to God in their lives and that they have changed their lives in simple but profound ways. We have to tap into the Holy Spirit living within us. Because faith is something living, it must be nurtured and fed through prayer. Scot said a cursillista once told him that before Cursillo they knew a lot about Jesus, but didn't know Jesus. Paul said knowledge in the head and the journey to what you know in the heart is an amazing experience. **3rd segment:** The program begins on Day One with getting to know yourself. Paul said before his Cursillo, he hadn't really looked at himself before his weekend apart from his job and being a father and husband. Cursillo's tripod model teaches balance and he looked at himself and realized he was not in balance.  Fr. Martin said Cursillo is not a secret, but you can't describe certain things without trying them. "Taste and see the goodness of the Lord." The gift of Cursillo is the Holy Spirit and men and women sharing their personal experience of Jesus Christ. People can identify with others who are like them and then imagine how their lives can end up in a positive way. The longest 18-inches in the world is the distance from the head to the heart, and while you can know Jesus in the head, it is not the same as knowing Him in your heart. Fr. Chip asked Paul to clarify what a personal inventory means. Paul said one of the first talks on the weekend calls the person to take a look at what and where you spend your time and resources to show where your priorities and then to determine what your goals are in life. He found that he didn't know what his goals were and has since found that most people are like that. He'd found that was very me-focused, feeling that if he went to work and earned money, then he could leave the rest up to his wife and spend a lot of "me-time". On his weekend, he got rid of his masks and was able to empty himself of what he had done.  Scot asked how many people show up on the weekend not sure they really want to be there? Paul said a large percentage are like that, although there are many who have been developing a spiritual life already. Fr. Martin said each of the three days has a theme: Know Yourself, Know Christ, and Have Courage. There are talks followed by table discussion which is more sharing than discussing. It's not about right answers, but about sharing feelings and experiences. It is rooted in sacraments. All day Friday looks toward confession on Friday night.They start hearing confessions at quarter to ten at night and end at midnight. There is also the Mass and time for prayer, time with the Blessed Sacrament. There is plenty of time for self-examination. Everyone wants to be a better person and better at what they are doing in life. Fr. Martin said they have separate weekends for men and women. Part of the reason is the masks that can be worn in the presence of the opposite sex.  Paul has led Cursillo weekends since his own. He said typically the weekends at St. Basil's have 40 or 50 candidates on them. They also do them at prisons and he recently had about 40 men at Norfolk prison. Each of the people on the team, which numbers about 20, has a specific role. Fr. Martin said there have been about 13,000 people who have made Cursillos in Methuen, not counting all the others in Framingham and in the Worcester diocese and Fall River and Springfield. **4th segment:** When Paul came to make his longest journey of 18 inches on the first couple of days of his retreat. When he made his retreat 20 years ago, he'd already been married 20 years. His wife Christine was the rock of faith in his family and he said he'd put her through a lot as an independent man as she stood by him. The Jesus he sees in Christine has helped him find Christ in himself. In those days, they went through financial difficulties, even bankruptcy, but after Cursillo he was able to put the material possessions in their proper place. He was a golf nut before Cursillo, but just after his weekend, he seriously injured his shoulder in a golf cart accident and was unable to play for two years, helping him to put things in the proper order in his life. Paul said not every story from every speaker affects every candidate on the weekend. But there is always something that touches everyone that they can identify with. Fr. Chip asked if he's ever seen someone leave the weekend who wasn't affected. Paul said no two people are ever affected in the same way at the same time. Wherever you are in the moment, Jesus is with you in the moment. Fr. Chip said everyone always worry about numbers, but if someone is brought closer to Christ, whether one or 13,000, it's worth it. Fr. Martin said Jesus said to feed My sheep, not count My sheep. He said the witness talks are critical to Cursillo because they put flesh on the bones of facts about the faith. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, "If you love Me keep My commandments." We need to know that obedience is the fruit of relationship and rules without relationship equals rebellion. Once we love Jesus, we want to please Him and serve Him. The preaching of the early Church was always "Jesus is Lord. Jesus is risen." It wasn't the 10 commandments or social justice. Those aren't unimportant, but they come after the relationship with Christ. **5th segment:** It's time to announce the winner of the weekly **WQOM Benefactor Raffle**. Our prize this week an [8-CD set of Mother Angelica's program “Living the Scriptures.”](http://www.ewtnreligiouscatalogue.com/LIVING+THE+SCRIPTURES+WITH+MOTHER+ANGELICA+-+CD/cid=274/page_no=1/edp_no=20458/shop.axd/ProductDetails) This series brings you vintage Mother Angelica episodes that will profit your soul and cheer your spirit with her insights, wisdom, and humor. This week's winner is **Nicholas Russo from Winchester, Massachusetts**. Congratulations Nicholas! If you would like to be eligible to win in an upcoming week, please visit [WQOM.org](http://www.wqom.org). For a one-time $30 donation, you'll receive the Station of the Cross benefactor card and key tag, making you eligible for our weekly raffle of books, DVDs, CDs and religious items. We'll be announcing the winner each Wednesday during “The Good Catholic Life” program. **6th segment:** Paul said he has been on four different Cursillo teams that go into prisons. This brings the team into an uncomfortable place, but he learned that the souls inside are like the souls on the outside of the walls. Fr. Martin said the St. Basil's community has been bringing Cursillo into prisons since 1989, starting at the women's correctional center in Framingham. They have run 20 at Old Colony in Bridgewater, 20 at Norfolk, 16 at Framingham, and 1 in Plymouth. There is a huge need to bring Cursillo everywhere. About 1 in 100 Americans are in prison. 1 in 38 kids have a parent in prison.  Fr. Martin said the problems of society won't be solved by more prisons, but only by bringing Jesus Christ to them. Scot said that while it's politically convenient to say we need to throw them in prison and throw away the key, these are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Fr. Martin said some of the best people he's met are behind the walls. Part of what's different is that in prison it's barebones. In Methuen, they have a beautiful snack table available from morning to night, but in prison there is no frills, yet the men and women are hungering for Jesus. It helps them to experience what Jesus meant when He said if the Son has set you free, you are free indeed. Some of the candidates will say suddenly in the middle of the weekend that they'd forgotten they were in prison. Fr. Martin tells the story of a young woman who realized that she had come to like herself for the first time. They give them the opportunity to serve each other. It's all about being a servant.  On Cursillo, the clergy and the laity work together as equals. The weekend's leader gives a talk on how a Christian leader is called to serve. If someone is interested in Cursillo, they can connect with an Ultreya, a parish community of those who have gone on Cursillo, to get an idea of making a Cursillo. They can also go to the websites listed above for more information. That will conclude today's presentation of The Good Catholic Life. For recordings and photos of today's show and all previous shows, please visit our website: TheGoodCatholicLife.com. You can also download the app for your iPhone or Android device at WQOM.org to listen to the show wherever you may be. We thank our guests, Father Martin Hyatt and Paul Blanchette. For our co-host, Father Chip Hines, our Production team of Rick Heil, Anna Johnson, Justin Bell, Dom Bettinelli, and George Martell, this is Scot Landry saying thank YOU for listening, God bless you and have a wonderful evening!