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Tyler Rowley

Episode 179

4 JULY 2022

He serves as the president of Servants of Christ, which defends life, family, and the Holy Faith through media and activism. He is a past leader in young adult ministry in the Diocese of Providence. His first book, “Because of Our Fathers,” was published last year. His second book, which he is co-authoring with Abby Johnson, is titled “Life to the Full” and will be published early next year. On the sports side, he played college football at Brown University.

Notable guest quotes:

“My father… is a man of integrity and virtue and instilled those natural virtues in his children routinely and he would get down on his knees every Sunday and go to Mass.”

“My younger brother is a priest in the Diocese of Providence.  We’re all committed to the faith… we’re serious about it.  We believe it.”

“I started to read… started to get into the church fathers… and I started to say, ‘Wow… it’s not just something I believe but it’s something that is so rich and provable, in a way, to people.”

“I think I sort of transferred all of my energy and all my passion that went into sports into what I finally realized was much more important, which is the Catholic faith and using all the skills that God gave me to evangelize.”

“You give your feelings and your thoughts to God, and you ask Him for peace with it, and He’ll give you peace.”

“What I took away from sports more than anything is the ability to withstand the physical pains of this world and to keep going and to relate that to the Cross.”

“There’s so many saints that mortification was a cornerstone of their spiritual life… it’s a deep intimacy and connection to the physical world and our physical body that God gave us and Christ took on, and, it’s powerful.”

“I’m fortunate and blessed to be the president of (Servants of Christ)… We’ll get involved in anything that defends the orthodox Catholic faith.”

“We struggled with infertility for two years.  And I had to dig deep into the Catholic teaching on this issue and we found what’s commonly referred to as natural family planning through the Creighton model and we found a Catholic hospital that teaches the Creighton model.”

Related link:

Tyler’s website

(This episode contains a prayer by Gregg Easterbrook from the NFL.com and ESPN.com column “Monday Morning Quarterback,” as seen in Play Like A Champion Today’s prayerbook for sports, God, Be In My Sport)