Finding Christ in the NFL ( with Joe Reitz)

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Dr. Sri sits down with former NFL player, Joe Reitz to talk about faith, family, and football. Joe opens up about his experience living out his Catholic faith while he was in the NFL, and how he continues to follow Christ today as a husband and father.

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" We are called to be winning teammates for Christ who try to get our friends, family, and loved ones to heaven. At the end of the day, that's all that matters."- Joe Reitz

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:07.0	So here we are at the end of January. We are approaching the great feast of the
0:17.8	Super Bowl. Well, that's how America celebrates the Super Bowl here coming up and
0:21.9	think of our thing about football and I wanted to bring on
0:24.3	someone who's become a friend that I've got to know who's played in the NFL. His name is Joe Wright's
0:28.8	he was an offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens from 2008 to 2010.
0:34.0	Then he played with the Indianapolis Colts 2010 to 2017.
0:38.0	He was blessed to play with greats like Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck.
0:42.0	He was in a famous game in 2014 if you remember the
0:46.6	famous deflate controversy with Tom Brady and he was in that game when just one step away from the Super Bowl.
0:55.0	So, but that's not why he's on.
0:57.0	He's on because he's a great Catholic man.
0:59.0	I've gotten to meet his wife at least virtually.
1:02.0	We've done some sessions together. My wife Beth and I did a
1:06.0	marriage session for their parish outside of Indianapolis on the north side there and got to meet them.
1:11.0	So he's married to Jill who's a convert to the faith.
1:13.6	They have six children from ages nine to a brand new baby just born right before Christmas.
1:19.1	So let's welcome Joe writes the show.
1:21.1	Joe thanks for being with us.
1:22.8	Yeah, Dr. Sri, thanks for having me on.
1:24.9	I'm a big fan of the podcast and listen
1:28.2	and get excited every Tuesday when it comes out.
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