When Sports and Faith Collide
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It’s easy to see sports as a distraction from faith, but what if they’re actually a powerful path to it?
Dave sits down with Julianna Calzonetti and Alex Ruston, Catholic sports outreach coordinators and missionaries serving athletes. Together, they share how the world of sports can become a mission field and how each of us can evangelize by bringing our passions and our faith together.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:02.9 | To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.7 | Sports has a way of getting to a person and saying, you have to give your all. |
| 0:17.4 | And you kind of need that experience in order to one day be able to do it for another person or for God. |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome everyone to Every Knee Shall Bow Your Weekly Catholic Podcasts on evangelization and discipleship. |
| 0:41.7 | So glad to be here with you. |
| 0:44.2 | Once again, I'm alone. |
| 0:45.9 | It's just me, Dave. |
| 0:47.1 | Gomer's not here this week. |
| 0:49.2 | If you listened last week, you heard that his son Noah is having some serious but thankfully he's healing some |
| 0:57.5 | medical problems so he fell off of a piece of like equipment at a at a playground and broke his |
| 1:03.6 | back in three places he's doing okay and he's going to heal from it but it's like going to be a |
| 1:08.5 | long journey here so gomer's taking some time off and he deserves it's like going to be a long journey here. So Gomer's taking some |
| 1:11.0 | time off and he deserves it, right? We can give him a little bit of leeway here. As always, you know, he's busy. So he's traveling. And so take a look at his website, laymissionary.com, or sorry, lay evangelist.com. He's going to kill me for saying the wrong website. But if you look at his calendar there, take a look at the missions he's doing. |
| 1:29.8 | He'd love to meet you in person and then go out and see him. |
| 1:32.8 | I'll be coming out to Atchison, Kansas pretty soon for a mission right on the campus of Benedictine College at the parish there. |
| 1:41.1 | It'll be the first and second of March. And so I'd love to meet you and to |
| 1:46.1 | see. So if you're a listener out there in Atchison, please come out and see me. As you know, |
| 1:51.0 | we've been having a season on missionary discipleship and we've been talking to different organizations |
| 1:55.3 | that are engaged in an active missionary discipleship so that you can kind of see what they're up to |
| 2:00.6 | and what they're up to and what |
| 2:00.9 | they're up against and all these kinds of things. Today I'm pretty excited. This is a unique one for |
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