39: "Don't Call Me Gay. Call Me Catholic" - An Interview with Avera Maria Santo

Do Something Beautiful

Leah Darrow

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🗓️ 30 December 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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You can support the Do Something Beautiful Podcast NOW on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leahdarrow Avera Maria Santo is a 21-year-old Alabama native and part time college student. When she's not in school, she's working on her blog titled Inside My Holy of Holies, where she writes about her life as a practicing Catholic living a chaste life with same-sex attractions. In this conversation, we talk about her struggle of same-sex attraction and its connection to her Catholic faith, along wi...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Leodero and I share with you
0:05.6	inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better.
0:10.0	We are inspired by the words of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta who said do something beautiful for God.
0:15.8	Do it with your life. Do it every day. Do it in your own way, but do it.
0:21.1	Well, my friends in the hope of adding some true beauty to the world, I have a new book.
0:28.8	It's called The Other Side of Beauty and it is now out for purchase.
0:32.4	No more pre-ordering. It's available for
0:34.8	purchase now and you can get it anywhere books are sold and yes that does include Amazon
0:39.7	and my website leadair.com. In this book I confront the world's limited view of beauty
0:44.3	and its negative impact on us women with a lot of research and statistics there for you.
0:48.1	And then I give the alternative. I give the other side of beauty, which is really about holiness and wholeness.
0:55.4	And ultimately, it's the person of Jesus Christ.
0:57.8	Amen?
0:58.8	Amen.
0:59.8	So when we desire this, when we desire the other side of being, when we desire Christ, we really can be calm and share true and lasting beauty.
1:07.0	So I wrote this book, you can grab it like I said on, anywhere good books are sold or Amazon, Leodero, all those things above and you can join in and take part into
1:16.3	the other set of Beauty Challenge there.
1:18.4	Now this podcast, the Do Something Beautiful Podcast, is a now proudly sponsored by Haiti 180. Haiti 180 is a nonprofit organization
1:26.3	that impacts the whole community with the joy of Christ in Haiti by providing homes,
1:31.1	education, health care, and life-changing experience through mission trips
1:36.0	that Haiti-180 offers.
1:37.8	So Haiti-180, you probably have heard me talk about them before.
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