Colleen Scariano
Episode 275
6 MAY 2024
She grew up playing a wide array of sports, from softball, basketball, volleyball, and track, to swimming and volleyball. She has also played golf and in tennis leagues, plus she has run a half-marathon AND a triathlon. Present day her focus, fitness-wise, is on stretching, strength, and restorative movement, adding that she loves a good hike. She has overcome personal tragedy more than once, and, she is the co-founder of SoulCore, a Catholic fitness apostolate whose mission is to amplify the experience of prayer through physical movement. Their signature SoulCore Rosary is a 60-minute strengthening workout that is set to the prayers of the rosary.
Notable guest quotes:
“I like to say it was a chaotic and fun, lively Irish Catholic family that I grew up in, and faith really was the cornerstone.”
“My parents made the sacrifice, you know, that was definitely a financial sacrifice for them to send us to Catholic schools. And really that was one of my first experiences in sports, was, through CYO sports.”
(when tragedy first struck their family) “I saw our Catholic faith being lived out so beautifully in the response of my parents… my mom’s response in particular was that she really surrendered to God.”
“I saw so many of the virtues of the faith lived out. My mom’s favorite scripture verse was Romans 8:28, which is, ‘God works all things together for the good of those who love Him,’ and she believed that, that God was at work even in these trials and challenges in our family. And she lived always with this sense of hope even in times of difficulty.”
“It’s not always easy to share difficult things, especially tragic things, that we’ve been through in our life but there’s always healing when we’re able to share our story and obviously we touch other people through the stories that we share because we all share the experience of suffering and trial in some way in our lives.”
“I just surrendered to God in a deeper way than I ever had before, and I guess the best way to say it is that I went all in with my Catholic faith and with my devotion to God, and He is so faithful.”
“St. Teresa of Avila says that ‘all things suffered in love will be healed,’ and we know that God is love, so when we turn to God and truly entrust all of our suffering, all of our broken, all of our woundedness, He is so faithful.”
“The rosary – as I’ve learned through my own journey – is really a transformative and a healing instrument of peace.”
“Those became really the most powerful times of prayer for me when I was out running. I wasn’t distracted by other things and truly that combination of prayer and movement became a healing instrument that would restore my grief back to a sense of peace and a sense of hope and even eventually leading me back to a return to joy.”
“I was invited on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje and when I was there a priest said to me, ‘When you go back, the Blessed Mother is going to have a mission for you’.”
“I love that on many of these pilgrimages we’ve been able to incorporate movement and exercise and things like that too, so, again, that combination of sports and athletics and movement in the faith.”
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