George Rose
Episode 188
5 SEP 2022
He is the Executive Advisor of Pacific Rim Operations with the New York Yankees, which includes having served as a Japanese translator for the likes of Hideki Irabu, Masahiro Tanaka, and Hideki Matsui, among others. As a student-athlete he had competed in baseball, soccer, rugby, and track & field. He also serves as an advisor for Japan’s Yomiuri Giants baseball team. He is a board member of “Catholic Men for Jesus Christ,” a now 25-year old organization. He also has a radio show called, “Brothers in Arms,” which airs monthly. And, he is a cancer survivor who by far is not only the first person to come on this show with a story about a miracle that would help confirm a saint, but probably the ONLY person who will be a guest and have that kind of witness to share — the closest that any of us will come to hearing something like this firsthand.
Notable guest quotes:
“I went to Catholic school just about my whole life, grammar school, high school, and college. The first time I didn’t go to a Catholic school was when I got my MBA.”
“My mother was actually a nun at one time in her life. When she first got out of high school, she was in the convent for three years.”
“When I was in eighth grade there was nothing I wanted more than to be a Major League Baseball player. I used to sleep at night with my batting gloves on and my mitt.”
“When I was in my late twenties – 29 to be exact – I got sober at the time and about six months into my journey as a sober man I wandered back into St. Paul the Apostle on 59th and Columbus, for Mass one Sunday, and when I went it was kind of like I was hearing the words of the Mass for the first time.”
“I did go away to college, in Worcester, Massachusetts, I went to Holy Cross, which is a Jesuit school.”
“I was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer about five-and-a-half years ago, in 2017… I wrote to ask friends and family and anybody else to pray for a miracle of healing for my lung cancer.”
“I have a devotion to Sister Faustina and, of course, to all the Polish saints, right, Sister Faustina, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Pope John Paul II, just giants of the 20th century.”
“I’ve been involved in Catholic Men for Jesus Christ for the last 12 or 13 years… we do Catholic men’s conferences in New Jersey in the Diocese of Trenton, near where I live, and I help organize the conferences and have been on the Board.”
“Even when you have cancer, every day, does become just a little more precious, I would say… And it was incredible how close I felt to God when I first got sick.”