Molly Bent
Episode 135
30 AUG 2021
She played college basketball under the famous coach Geno Auriemma at the University of Connecticut after a high school career as a student-athlete that saw her set records in basketball, plus she competed in soccer as well. Presently she is a missionary at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as part of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students and a part of Varsity Catholic.
Notable guest quotes:
“I was extremely blessed to grow up in a wonderful Catholic family with a dad who really just is the face of God the Father for me and then a mom who is one of the greatest examples of, like, sacrificial love and servant love.”
“Even when I was younger, I was never a kid who kind of put up a fight going to Mass. I always kind of enjoyed it. Mostly, just, I loved listening to the gospels and to the priests’ homilies.”
“My dad… actually started going to daily Mass after my little sister was born. She was born with Down Syndrome and it kind of reignited this flame for his faith and the trust in the Lord that His plan is better than anything we could imagine and what a gift it is to have my little sister as like a constant presence of that.”
“I’ve had a lot of time to pray about it and reflect on my path that the Lord has had me on and it’s so clear that His hand was in everything.”
“I wasn’t really asking God for much that I remember throughout my high school (basketball) career other than kind of like a superstitious almost prayer before games and practices, like, ‘Lord, help me play well and help me to stay safe’.”
“I read recently in a book about Mary Magdalene that a good friend gave me that when we seek love outside of the ultimate love and the infinite love we’re just left with kind of like this deep lack of fulfillment.”
“I’m a very joyful person. I like to say I’m a BIG joy person. I love radiating and allowing the Lord to radiate joy through us.”
“So that kind of led me into this kind of more awareness of Jesus Christ the person and of God who has a hand in everything.”
“I just was falling in love with getting to know Jesus. And, in my mind it was a very similar feeling to when I received an offer from UConn where it was just like, ‘Yeah, of course. Like, there’s nothing else that my heart was made for other than this at this moment’.”
