Anthony Acosta
Episode 343
25 AUG 2025
He has played competitive basketball his entire life, saying that his team always won first place in league, and during his senior year at Mark Keppel High School his team made it to the California Interscholastic Federation semi-finals with only one player over six feet. He was featured in his local newspaper twice as part of their basketball coverage. Plus, he ran track in high school as well, having gotten his mile down to four minutes eleven seconds. On the faith side, he works at Virgin Most Powerful Radio where he hosts two shows: “Through His Wounds” and “Thunderous Theological Thursdays.”
Notable guest quotes:
“(the faith is) the main aspect of our lives. I never really noticed it until I have friends come over our house and be like, wow, you guys are really Catholic. Because on our walls, it’s filled with Catholic art.”
“We prayed the rosary every night, went to confession, monthly, had a great relationship with priests, altar served from a very young age.”
“We would drive 45 minutes to an hour in traffic to go to Father Broom, who many Catholic listeners may know. He has a blog online that’s very popular, Father Ed Broom from St. Peter Chanel. We would go all the way to his parish, out of our way, just to get catechized where he was at and we would go to confession with him face to face.”
“I go by the park and oftentimes there’s a mom who’s trying to show her kids how to play basketball. And she doesn’t know what she’s doing. So, I go in and help them because that’s what my dad did for me.”
“My motto is like, as a Catholic, you are a sacrifice, to live as a sacrifice.”
“If you can’t altar serve, at least when you pass by a church, make the sign of the cross. And in that sense, you’re bowing to your king who is physically present in the tabernacle.”
“You have to guard your mind and the way you do that is through silence because this world is full of noise, full of chaos… And the way you prepare … to filter all that noise is to spend some time in silence, spend some time in front of our Lord in adoration, in meditation, where you’re only thinking about one thing, something holy.”
“My favorite compliment that I ever got from a priest is that, ‘You know what Anthony? You don’t know how to be anything but Catholic.’ That’s because I see the world through the wounds of Christ. That is the best way to interpret this world.”
“You never know what life is going to bring you, but God’s always going to put you in a position that you can handle. And then lean on Him when you feel like you don’t have what it takes.”
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