Marty Langlois
Episode 248
30 OCT 2023
She runs Rebuild the Body — Catholic-based coaching integrated with fitness — and she also runs Catholic Body Image, which uses a Theology of the Body approach. She is also a fitness instructor and is in the early stages of starting a podcast. As a student-athlete she had played basketball in high school and then in college worked the women’s basketball team’s home games. She later became an assistant coach for high school basketball and present day is getting ready to run a 5K in November. She has a story that she tells here about a major medical occurrence that she has had to work to overcome.
Notable guest quotes:
“I went to Catholic school from kindergarten and literally all the way through graduate school.”
“My parents were focused on raising us in our faith… and then there was also an interest for me, personally, to grow in the faith and learn in the faith.”
“I went to the University of the Incarnate Word (in San Antonio, Texas).”
“I’m also a big Duke basketball fan… have absolutely no personal connection with Duke, but I developed a fascination for Coach K and the way he coached the team, the way he encouraged leadership, and even brought his own faith as a Catholic into what he did.”
“I’ve worked in campus ministry, music ministry, hospice ministry, I worked in hospital ministry as a summer intern as a chaplain, and parish ministry as the Catholic Religious Education Coordinator for the Hollomon Air Force Base chapel in Alamogordo, New Mexico.”
“I don’t believe God inflicts the suffering. I’ve never once believed He inflicts the pain.”
“The conclusion I drew was, ‘Well, if He’s allowing this to happen’ – because, we believe as Catholics that out of suffering can come, His glory can shine through that.”
“Just reflecting on even the cross of Christ, the most horrific event in all of human history led to the greatest glory and story ever told of the Resurrection, and that’s what I held onto was knowing something was going to come out of this.”
“I saw that, if you will, the manifestation of the body of Christ, or that Eucharist, you kind of see that heart of who we are spreading out, become bread broken, shared for others, I actually got to experience that and witness that through the parish community we were surrounded by.”
“I really wanted to help and do something… and build this bridge between my love for the faith and now a growing love for fitness.”
“When you’re not looking sometimes God helps you find what you’re looking for.”
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