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AfterMass

Ana Munley

146 episodes

AfterMass is the podcast for Catholics who want more than just Sunday. If you’re tired of checking the “Catholic” box without seeing real transformation in your life, this is for you.

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Hosted by Ana Munley, Catholic wife and mom. Send an email and share your thoughts to: theaftermasspodcast@gmail.com

New episodes drop every Tuesday on Spotify, YouTube, Apple + Amazon Podcasts. Find Ana on TikTok and Instagram: @anamunley and our Podcast socials: @aftermasspodcast

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  1. Why You Can’t Stop Sinning, According to Science

    · 13 min

    🌹 Rosaries, Catholic apparel, and gifts from our sponsor Abundantly Yours: https://abundantlyyours.org/aftermass Why do we keep confessing the same sins over and over? Neuroscience has discovered that the brain…

  2. St. Ignatius On How To Tell Conviction From Condemnation

    · 12 min

    Rosaries, Catholic apparel and gifts from our sponsor Abundantly Yours: abundantlyyours.org/aftermass Most of the rosaries you see behind me come from Abundantly Yours, and they have beautiful Catholic apparel and…

  3. Fr. Ripperger Was Asked To Step Away For A Year.

    · 20 min

    Rosaries, Catholic apparel and gifts from our sponsor Abundantly Yours: abundantlyyours.org/aftermass - Most of the rosaries you see behind me come from Abundantly Yours. If there was ever a week to pick up a rosary…

  4. A Pastor Had Kids Smash Mary Statues. Here’s Who She Really Is.

    · 18 min

    This episode is brought to you by Abundantly Yours.. where I get all my rosaries, Catholic apparel and gifts! Find them here: abundantlyyours.org/aftermass Mary might be the most misunderstood woman who ever lived.…

  5. Exorcists’ Advice for Halloween: Prayers, Costumes, and Where to Draw the Line

    · 20 min

    🌹 Abundantly Yours’ custom baby & children’s rosary sale is ON through 10/25, bigger than Black Friday! Order now for Christmas: https://abundantlyyours.org/aftermass Is Halloween spiritually dangerous? Can your kids…

  6. The Modesty Debate Nobody Knows They’re Having (Shane Gillis, Sydney Sweeney)

    · 20 min

    🌹 Custom baby & children's rosary sale starts tomorrow 10/15, the biggest of the year! Shop Abundantly Yours: https://abundantlyyours.org/aftermass Sydney Sweeney's nearly nude sports betting ad was called degrading…

  7. The Church Allowed the Death Penalty for Centuries. So Why Is It Wrong Now?

    · 18 min

    🌹 Custom baby & children’s rosary sale starts 10/15, the biggest of the year! Shop Abundantly Yours: https://abundantlyyours.org/aftermass The Pentagon plans to livestream the December firing-squad execution of Fort…

  8. The Cornell 7 and the Sin Christians Are Committing Online

    · 22 min

    🌹 Shop the Abundantly Yours custom baby and children’s rosary sale, October 15 to 25. It’s their biggest sale of the year on kids’ rosaries, even bigger than Black Friday, and ordering early means your custom rosary…

  9. The Rosary Won This Battle: Why October 7th Is Mary's Feast

    · 14 min

    🌹 THIS WEEK ONLY: Get a FREE rosary pouch with any rosary from Abundantly Yours for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: https://abundantlyyours.org/aftermass In 1571, the Ottoman navy was about to take the…

  10. The True Christian History of Halloween

    · 16 min

    🌹 Preorder the NEW St. Francis & St. Gemma rosaries from Abundantly Yours: https://abundantlyyours.org/aftermass Every October, Catholics are told Halloween is a pagan festival in disguise. Today we look at the real…

  11. St. Faustina Reveals What Jesus Does in Your Last Breath (Today is Her Feast Day!)

    · 17 min

    🌹 Preorder the NEW St. Francis & St. Gemma rosaries from Abundantly Yours: https://abundantlyyours.org/aftermass On her feast day, we look at what Jesus told St. Faustina about the final moments of life: the hidden…

  12. LIFE/CHANNEL UPDATE.

    · 12 min

    AFTERMASS: https://aftermass.org FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER: https://aftermass.org/#newsletter Taking September off from YouTube + the podcast 🤍 I’m giving myself the month of September to spend some real time working…

  13. The Ancient Israelite Law That Explains Mary's Crown

    · 15 min

    Tomorrow, August 22, the Church celebrates the Queenship of Mary, eight days after the Assumption. Most Catholics have said "Hail, Holy Queen" hundreds of times without knowing where that title actually comes from or…

  14. Padre Pio Reveals the Sin Almost Nobody Confesses

    · 19 min

    Padre Pio spent decades hearing confessions, and the sin he came back to most wasn't the one people expected. It was gossip, and more specifically what the Church calls detraction and calumny, revealing or fabricating…

  15. Scientists Measured What The Rosary Does To Your Heart and Brain

    · 18 min

    A team of Italian cardiologists put people on heart monitors and had them pray the rosary in Latin. What they measured surprised even the researchers: praying it at a normal pace slowed people's breathing to almost…

  16. Fr. Mike Schmitz Explains What You Need To Know About Purgatory

    · 11 min

    Purgatory gets treated two ways: either as an overcomplicated invention or as something Scripture never actually supports. Both are wrong. Drawing on a video Fr. Mike Schmitz made years ago on Ascension Presents, I…

  17. This Simple Practice Has Transformed My Suffering

    · 15 min

    What if the inconveniences, exhaustion, and suffering you experience every day could actually become prayer? I first heard this practice from Catholic author and speaker Megan Hjelmstad at the Defending the Faith…

  18. The 40 Days St. Francis and Padre Pio Both Took Seriously

    · 11 min

    St. Francis fasted 40 days every year and it left wounds that never healed. Padre Pio kept the same devotion for the same reason. It's called St. Michael's Lent. It starts this Saturday, August 15th and almost no…

  19. Scrupulosity Explained: Is It a Sin or Is It OCD?

    · 20 min

    Saint Ignatius of Loyola once considered walking off a cliff because he couldn't stop confessing sins he wasn't even sure he'd committed. That's scrupulosity and it's more common than most Catholics realize.In this…

  20. Things Your Guardian Angel Can and Can’t Do

    · 17 min

    Can your guardian angel read your mind? See your dreams? Know your future? Can you name your guardian angel, and what happens to your angel when you die? Catholic teaching on guardian angels is a lot more specific…

  21. The 4 Catholic Temperaments Explained: Your Strengths, Vices & Virtues

    · 19 min

    Are you sanguine, choleric, melancholic, or phlegmatic?The four temperaments have been used by Catholic spiritual writers for centuries as a way of understanding our natural strengths, weaknesses, and patterns in the…

  22. What Will Heaven Actually Be Like? Fr. Ripperger Explains

    · 8:35

    Fr. Chad Ripperger recently sat down with Shawn Ryan and shared some fascinating Catholic theology about what awaits us after death. Will we interact with relatives who have died? Will we really see our entire family…

  23. Fr. Chad Ripperger Explains How Guardian Angels Speak to You

    · 9:08

    Have you ever wondered how your guardian angel communicates with you? In this video, we break down Fr. Chad Ripperger's explanation of how guardian angels interact with us, how to speak to your guardian angel, and how…

  24. You Fast Twice a Year. That's Why You're Stuck.

    · 8:19

    Most Catholics fast twice a year and wonder why the same sin is still sitting there untouched. Fasting isn't a diet or a once-a-year obligation, it's a weapon most of us have never picked up. In this video: the actual…

  25. What Happened Before Genesis Even Started

    · 10 min

    Before Adam. Before Eve. Before the world even existed - there was a war. This video walks through the real story of Lucifer's fall, the first battle in Revelation, and how that one moment set up everything that…

  26. What Happens to Your Soul in the First Hour After You Die

    · 12 min

    What actually happens to your soul in the first hour after death? Not the funeral or the grieving, the soul itself. In this video I walk through what the Church actually teaches: the particular judgment that happens…

  27. Fr. Chad Ripperger: What Really Happens in the First 5 Minutes of an Exorcism

    · 13 min

    Fr. Chad Ripperger, one of the most experienced exorcists working today, has talked openly about what actually happens in the first minutes of an exorcism, and it's nothing like the movies. No screaming, no spectacle.…

  28. Every Part of the Catholic Mass, Explained (Finally)

    · 13 min

    Most Catholics have sat through the Mass hundreds of times and couldn't tell you why any single part happens when it happens. It's not a personal failure.. it's just that nobody ever handed us the blueprint. In this…

  29. "You Will Know Them By Their Fruits." Here's What That Actually Means.

    · 11 min

    How do you know which Catholic voices online you should actually trust? Jesus already gave us the answer. In this video, we unpack what "you will know them by their fruits" really means, what the fruits of the Holy…

  30. What Padre Pio Said Every Catholic Should Read Before Bed

    · 12 min

    The last thing you put into your mind before sleep matters more than most people realize. Padre Pio believed those final moments before bed shape your spiritual life in profound ways. Here's what he recommended, why…

  31. What Actually Happens the Moment You Confess?

    · 12 min

    What really happens the moment a priest says the words of absolution? This isn't just about feeling better after confession. The Church teaches that something objective and supernatural takes place, whether you feel…

  32. The Hidden Influence of the People Around You

    · 12 min

    Padre Pio believed the people around us shape our spiritual lives far more than we realize. In this video, we look at what he taught about hidden influence, quiet encouragement, and why some of the people closest to…

  33. The Habit St. John Vianney Said Keeps Christians Lukewarm

    · 12 min

    Most people think becoming lukewarm happens all at once. St. John Vianney said it usually happens through one small habit repeated over and over again. In this video, we'll look at what he observed after decades in…

  34. I Changed How I Receive. Here's Why.

    · 18 min

    Most Catholics have never been taught the real history behind how we receive communion, or that the "old-fashioned" option is actually still the universal norm. I'm sharing what changed for me, the Eucharistic fast…

  35. The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - July 16, 2026

    · 11 min

    "Whosoever dies wearing this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire." That's what Mary said to St. Simon Stock in 1251. This Thursday, July 16th, is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the day the Church…

  36. The 10 Virtues of Mary That Terrify the Devil (St. Louis de Montfort)

    · 13 min

    St. Louis de Montfort identified 10 evangelical virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, virtues so powerful that living them out is described as spiritual warfare against the devil himself. In this video, we walk through…

  37. The Sin I Struggle With Most as a Catholic

    · 22 min

    I used to think this was too small to confess. I was wrong. This isn't about explosive anger, no yelling, no scenes. This is about the sharp comment, the edge in your tone, the words you'd never write down and show…

  38. What Vatican II Actually Said (And Why Catholics Still Argue About It)

    · 15 min

    Vatican II is probably the most debated event in modern Catholic history. Some Catholics blame it for everything. Others defend every change that followed it. But very few people have actually read the documents…

  39. The Vision That Explains What Happens After Your Last Breath (St. Faustina's Vision)

    · 12 min

    St. Faustina Kowalska was given a vision of standing before the judgment seat of God, seeing her own soul completely exposed the way God sees it. In this video, we walk through what she saw about the moment of death,…

  40. Why the Trad Wife Movement Doesn't Actually Feel "Traditional" Or Christian

    · 15 min

    Trad wife content is everywhere right now - Savanna Faith Stone, Ballerina Farm, Nara Smith, Estee Williams - and people are picking a side and telling us to pick a side but I'm not picking a side. I think the real…

  41. Every Catholic Should Know This Before July 4th

    · 19 min

    Happy Fourth of July. Most Americans know the names George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. But almost nobody knows the story of the Catholic family that helped shape the United States…

  42. Scientists Discovered What Happens When You Write Scripture by Hand

    · 12 min

    What if one of the simplest spiritual practices was also one of the most powerful for your brain? Recent neuroscience has found that writing by hand activates your brain in ways typing simply doesn't. Memory improves.…

  43. Why the SSPX Just Consecrated Four Bishops Against the Pope

    · 18 min

    Today, July 1, 2026, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four new bishops in Écône, Switzerland without papal approval, despite repeated public appeals from Pope Leo XIV not to proceed. So what is the SSPX?…

  44. Padre Pio Revealed What Happens to Your Soul at Communion

    · 11 min

    What Happens To Your Soul w happens to your soul when you receive Holy Communion? Padre Pio spent more than fifty years celebrating the Holy Mass while bearing the wounds of Christ. He called the Eucharist the…

  45. The Prayer Advice I Wish Someone Had Told Me Years Ago

    · 14 min

    If you've ever wanted a real prayer life but didn't know where to start, this video is for you. We're talking about the questions most people never answer: who you're actually talking to, what to do when prayer feels…

  46. Here's Everything You Wanted to Know (Not My Normal Content..Sorry LOL)

    · 25 min

    I'm answering some Q&As you've all asked!Thanks for being here and for making this little corner of the internet feel like a community. I hope you leave feeling like we know each other a little better.If you enjoyed…

  47. Cardinal McElroy Removed Fr. Rossetti.. Was It Fair?

    · 10 min

    Monsignor Rossetti is a 74 year old exorcist with 50 years of ministry. He posted a 5 minute Facebook video sharing a personal opinion about UFOs and four days later everything he built was gone. Another exorcist said…

  48. Paul Was Afraid of Being Disqualified. Are You?

    · 11 min

    Once saved always saved is one of the most comforting ideas in modern Christianity. It's also one of the most dangerous. Here's what Scripture, the early Church,and the saints actually say about whether salvation can…

  49. Padre Pio's Warning About the Last Days (And What As Catholics We Must Do Now)

    · 13 min

    Padre Pio warned that the greatest dangers to souls in the last days wouldn't come from outside the Church, but from confusion, spiritual complacency and the loss of the sense of sin. In this video, we're looking at…

  50. What Mortal Sin Actually Does To Your Soul (The Church Doesn't Sugarcoat This)

    · 11 min

    What is mortal sin? and what does it actually do to your soul? In this episode, we break down the three conditions for mortal sin, why sanctifying grace disappears completely, why you won't feel it happening, what the…

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