I met Father Martin in 1988 and visited his Treatment center several times later, carrying the message he taught me...Thank You Father Martin...this May will be 33 years, god willing ODAAT

saw him live in 1998 - he was amazing - big audience - is amazing guy. I sobered up Aug 12, 1995 - still sober - 25 years and counting - aa - miracles happen here

@jeffolson6139

2 жыл бұрын

My father seen him speak in 1984 witch now has 44year I got sober August 18/ 2011

@dannypowell594

2 жыл бұрын

You don't have to lie to kick it bro

@bobrapson4915

2 жыл бұрын

And who did that

@bobrapson4915

2 жыл бұрын

25 and counting. Is that a step?

@stephaniehall9190

Жыл бұрын

Keep coming tu

I used to listen to him last year on lost nights when I couldn't make it back from my relapse. He kept my hope alive and now with almost 2 months back continues to do so. I love this man's talks and thank you Lord for Father Martin

@morgannewood

Жыл бұрын

That’s so great, John. Please keep coming back.

@KoolT

Жыл бұрын

God bless Fr Martin

@franzxavierpore2333

Жыл бұрын

Great job.

@jeremyc2445

Жыл бұрын

How goes it, John?

@johngarcia8827

2 ай бұрын

​@@jeremyc2445 I'm still doing good thank you

By God's grace and a loving Father, I have been sober now since 1987, and several of my family members have many years of sobriety too. Celebrating 35 years of contented sobriety. Ever grateful for all of the old-timers that came before me, and carried the message to me for free.

@Trigathus

Жыл бұрын

God bless you 🙏🏼

I was a grateful guest of Father Martin Ashley! What a phenomenal man. Listening to him tonight was just the injection I needed!

Thank God for Fr Martin kept me Sober 30 yrs one day at a time

I saw Father Martin's "Chalk Talks" way back in the late '70s at the VA Hospital. I later had the pleasure of meeting him at an early AA Convention also back in the late 70s. Happy to say, I'm sober today due to these early sober drunks and priests. Sober since 4-20-1984. One day at a time.

Absolutely brilliant! Nearly 10 years sober and what a fellowship to be part of 🙏🏼

The only speaker we watched in the rehabs I went to were really old and on VHS . Father Martin was the only one I stayed awake watching . He’s so good !

Father Martin was a Saint.

It doesn't take brains, it takes desire!

I’m grateful to have been exposed to this man. He is very logical and wise in his approach. Blessed be God for illuminating him to help us

Wisdom from the ages here, a transformational learning experience, wow I am about to watch this again.

Thank you GOD for AA ❤

Thank you so much. I was very fortunate to hear father martin speak in pennsylvania in the 1990's. It changed my life for some time. Again. Much appreciated.

I still listen to his same video teachings 10 years into my recovery. So grateful!

What a wonderful, inspiring talk! Thank you for sharing. Also, can't help wondering who else cried during the Irish blessing 😊

@kevinmead156

2 жыл бұрын

I did.I'm Irish,alcoholic and Sober thank God!!

I love to listen to these steps from father martin . Your the best

Always sorts me out and sets me on the Righteous Path

You can have a drink as long as you control your drinking but if you're drinking controls you then you need help. I woke up drunk once and wanted my pain and misery to end and decided to drink myself back to sleep. Unfortunately my brother happened by my place he threw my liter and a half of wine out. With no other option I got the .22 placed it to my head cocked it and got a phone call from my dad about all the wonderful the gifts I had bought everybody which was a lie it was another thrift store Christmas. And then the police kicked in the door and dragged me off to the psych ward. I'm still here 10 years later. AA was not for me in the long run but it did help.

1st man that indrduced me to the steps in the greatest way! He was awesome! Thank You Father Martin💖🆙

This is the utmost best way I have ever heard the 12 steps simplified into a workable real life application.! ❤️ absolutely brilliant. ❤️

I love you Father Martin, your message of AA truly lives on. Amen

”It's impossible to stay sober without gratitude.” facts

This takes me clearly back to the beginning of my sobriety w hen i first met and listened to Father Martin. I love him and I love AA.

@corning1

4 жыл бұрын

Jan Webster you let him? Wow that’s awesome. I love father Martin deeply.

thank for your help Father Martin and bless GOd

Extraordinary speaker, much respect for this man!

Father Martin is a powerful speaker truly speaking from his soul everytime I listen to one of his talks I can feel his spiritual message. Such a blessing, makes me feel good too :)

This is the complete bases of how A/A CAN help the alcoholic that still suffers.aug2022.

Father martin and the recovered alcoholics are forever in my heart

Just wonderful, I love him and I love the 12 steps, sobriety & finding God is the best thing on earth 🌈💖🙏

Wonderful Man who has worked with many of us. Still sober. It works if we work it. Plug in Jug 24 years by Gods Grace..

When he says the prayer of a drunk is a prayer of the soul in pain I balled my eyes out. I'm struggling so bad with alcohol. I just don't wanna quit. I had 2 years sober and I'm so ashamed of myself.

@stevecatone1148

5 жыл бұрын

You know the doors are always open

@dollyk52

5 жыл бұрын

Please keep going. Reach out! It's ego ...I know the embarrassment..and feeling judged. After 2 and half years I too wandered off into old patterns running the show. There's no way you can get sober while drinking and the dependence on booze is an nightmare. An every ending cycle of blotting out looking for that fleeting feeling of ease. Doesn't really work at all. You know this is a progressive illness. Booze will let you down. Bless you. Your not a loser your sick!

@zsasa5764

5 жыл бұрын

Keep going back

@jz8299

5 жыл бұрын

On your feet Brian! Isaiah 40.31 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like the Eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

@leighmiller78

5 жыл бұрын

Brian, please go to a meeting. Find an old timer and ask for help. They understand. I had an elderly man sober for 30 years take me by the hand and take me through the steps. It was a beginning. He then put my hand in the hand of a woman who took me through them again. She put me in the CENTER of a circle of sober alcoholics who kept me busy as hell!! 2 years passed by quickly and then I met another lady who took me through the steps a third time. By then my mind had cleared, my heart & mind were open and I was willing to acknowledge the exact nature of my wrongs. I've kept sober since September 28,2009. Seems like yesterday & a lifetime ago at the same time. Go back if you haven't already....

then end of this made me cry but I'm so grateful I found this and actually listened properly

In the early 70’s Fr. Martin came to Boston and spoke at an AA anniversary which I attended. I am a non-alcoholic, in the Al-Anon program. This man has explained the 12 Steps to alcoholics and to non-alcoholics in a most loving and merciful way. One thing I distinctly remember was him saying, “When approaching a sleeping alcoholic, he will wake up, sit up and throw up.” My sanity was saved by my A-Anon program although my marriage was destroyed. I live the 12 Steps as best I can, but don’t expect to work it perfectly.

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239

Жыл бұрын

Hello my alanon sister.

Thanks be to God for this marvelous man. God thank you for AA and Al-Anon

Father Martin still carries the AA message and steps all 12 God bless this Father who was sent to teach us if we want it Chicago IL

Miracles love my life in recovery willingness, courage to change faith to move mountains thanks, Father Martin.

I want to thank you very much for bringing this video. I really appreciate

Father Martin and Joe & Charlie !!!!!!!!

I believe I met him in treatment at Warwick Manor in Maryland in 1983. That whole year was a blur but pretty sure he visited regularly.

I love that Martin talks not of the alcoholic but of himself which is the alcoholic

So thankful for these videos I use them daily to continue to educate my self.

Truully amazing 👌👌👌👌! Awesome man...this is the way to teach!!..simple..clear..POWERFULL !

i so love his wisdom thank you father martin

I was blessed to see Father Martin in person.

Well said Sr god bless

Great talk. Thanks for sharing. (Sorry to see that it also brought out some cray-crays).

I enjoy listening to this talk and I also enjoy Chuck c

Omg this was so beautiful. It brought me to tears. AA has saved my life thru it's efforts in inspiring NA by laying the blue print about what works.

@dannypowell594

2 жыл бұрын

You seriously cried watching this? I mean it's really interesting don't get me wrong and I'm a recovering addict that has been involved in Alcoholics Anonymous for some years but goddamn, it made you cry? I feel like you're lying. 10th step that shit bro ffs

Yup, truly a life of miracles with-in them 12 step program's. From 1976 - today has been a wild ride. If your drinking your self to death and want to stop, please make the call for help. Good sponsors are hard to find at times, but don't you give up! The recovery miracle is still happening each and every day all around the world in A.A.. Today maybe your recovery miracle day. I'm reminded, that ones own recovery is only 12 steps away. Forever grateful for them drunks that came before us and showing the way, to a new life! Do as they did and we get what they got, one alcoholic helping another one day at a time. Great speaker that truly loved A.A. Thanks for sharing!

@ms.bubblestheclown1681

4 жыл бұрын

AEI Automation Group that’s billshit talk 12 steps are not treatments for substance abuse . This is 2020 . Science base programs . Are here and medicine . This is an old ideology religious cult . No one is powerless .

Love this and how he explains it. Its so true

When I don’t hear voices but all I hear is me. Then hearing voices is no longer my problem.

If I only had this good man as my sponsor, I'd probably be helping other suffering alcoholic by now,

THANK YOU FATHER MARTIN.

Good,very good....

Thank you Framingham Freddie in LW Fla. Thank you

Loved his Tape i will be 36years Sober on 15th January God bless AA Always 🙏🙏🇬🇧

he is a awesome man. learned so much from him....

He is an excellent teacher

Absolutely fabulousness hope. Must continue. Work steps. Love you all. And present. When many r. Not

Love you Father Marin... (Eternally) Rest in Peace. Met you several times In Washington DC ( Georgetown area) back in 1983-1984

Thank U that is good stuff.👍

Inspirational ❤

Love in universal eternal existence is more advanced.

22 years clean and sober, both in, and out of AA, the most important thing I've learned, Is that alcoholism is not a disease, it is an addiction like any other. The 'disease model' has been in part responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths "Keep coming back" (until you can't), and the direct financing of a multi billion dollar 'recovery' industry. They just want to see you again, and again, and again.

Im a fan. Ive talked to those who met him and they speak well of him

Love this

Call AA whatever you want. IT WORKS.

@jameswright5547

4 жыл бұрын

A really good friend of mine put it in simple words why an addict/alcoholic uses "It Works". So, what you have stated, is a perfect example of why a person should use AA. Because it works. If the alcohol works use AA because it works. I love it!

@robertparaday9122

3 жыл бұрын

@TrollingAndBowling I've been to hundreds of groups and I never heard any of them say AA is the only way...howd u get clean tho?

'Wisdom is heard, not spoken.' Anon.

RIP FATHER MARTIN 🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌

@jeffreyintrovice5291

Жыл бұрын

WELL DONE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT...AMEN

Sadly missed father Martin 🙏🙏🙏

This man is a genius

Reading some comments that may not agree with you is alright. It is showing others that the message of hope may need to be presented in a slightly different way. Who or what Father Martin may have been is not his message to the world. So, wasting thought on attempting to figure that all out is proof to you that you continue to miss the point of what this is all about. His message is what is the point.

@jameswright5547

4 жыл бұрын

The addict likes to 'Split Hairs' in order to manipulate and get his/her way.

@doublequin

Жыл бұрын

@@jameswright5547 that's interesting. What constitutes splitting hairs for you? Is it splitting hairs that I believe the speaker made several circular reasoning errors and thoroughly misinterpreted the use of a couple steps (a clue, #5 in particular)

Wow❤️❤️❤️

God continued to take inventory and when god was wrong god promptly admitted it.

The power of *we* #humble

Even people that drink say a few pints of beer in the evening can have an effect on your motivation it's not just the blackout drunk that affects his life through booze. AA I think recognises it and helps people that are what some might consider functional. My take is if you drink enough for you to blow say, 08, it's enough to affect more than your driving in the short and long term.

I only find few talks of pastor martin can anyone give me his whole talks recording s

I try an be humble with a attitude of gradatude, understanding that I dont understand all things ,its ok, so much good stuff in AA

Amen!!

According to Bill Wilson the Insanity is when an alcoholic is sober and decides to pick up the first drink knowing full well everything bad that will happen

Proof that AA works for religious people too. “You don’t have to be Irish catholic to qualify as a drunk, but it helps”.

@johnkenny694

3 жыл бұрын

Where you praying to God in the Pub when you were getting pissed???

would like a copy of this video for use in recovery

One day at time 🤗😇😃

What year is this from ?

Still struggling and I live in the same state that father Martin lived in It is extremely likely say

This Priest would see alcoholism every day ..some Priests and Brothers develop an astonishing thirst for liquor. I guess it's a hard life so I shouldn't be surprised

You can never tell the writer of Myfanwy in Heaven that he can’t requite Myfanwy. IF HE TRULY WANTS TO.

35:24 made me cry

He could make a non-alcoholic an alcoholic just so he could listen to him and get sober.

Gods not mad he’s patient

My. Goodness es. I love this guy's message. Open heart ♥ ♥ surgery. Insert. Note to selfie

"The disease is not immoral, the actions as a result is immoral"

Father Martin is GREAT 😂

Deo Gratias 🙏

This is about Nathan and Alex

Alcohol Misuse Disorder can be cured in about 3 -4 months. It can be cured and you can moderately drink again. But this requires you to accept the gift of your own accountability.

At 4:45 to 6:00 minutes, he explains what step 1 really is.

Step 6 - 23:30