When I was born, doctors were unsure if I would survive, so my parents decided to have me baptized at the hospital that day. Looking back, I see that as a grace from God. I was raised in a Methodist church. I went to Sunday school and learned about Jesus, but I didn’t have Him in my heart fully. 

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When I was in middle school, a friend invited me to a non-denominational church camp, and it was there that my life would change forever. That summer, I invited Jesus into my heart. By the time I arrived back the next year, something in me had changed. After that, I continued to love all things Jesus and formed a bond with Him that carries me to this day.

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In high school, my family converted to Catholicism, which pulled me away from my Protestant community. Through several traumatic experiences, I took on the subconscious mindset that I couldn't be loved for who I was. I felt alone except for Jesus. I battled the question of Truth as well as the meaning of love.

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Finally, while I was a freshman in college, my mom handed me a biography of Mother Angelica, a Catholic nun who started EWTN. While reading this book, I saw myself in her. She loved Jesus and wanted to do anything for Him, but had suffering on the daily. It was through understanding redemptive suffering that I realized my life had meaning and that I was closest to Jesus in the suffering. So I prayed, "Jesus, if this is your Church, I want to be in it. If it isn’t, take it away."

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Immediately my heart was open, and I found the Truth of Catholicism in a real way. I decided to convert and transfer to University of Dallas to study Catholic Theology and Business. At the Easter Vigil 2008, I was accepted into the Catholic Church. I spent Spring 2009 studying in Rome and learning about the historic Church. After I graduated in 2011, I moved to San Francisco to start in the business world.

 

God had told me from a young age that I would work in the world until I was 33, but then I would turn my life over to full service for Him. In 2016, I moved to Arizona and took that as a sign I was being prepared in the desert as He was before His ministry. I devoted myself more heavily to the rosary, adoration, and the Sacraments. I took a pilgrimage to Fatima & Lourdes and it was there I developed a more personal relationship with Mary. This was a major turning point in my life.

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In 2020, 4 months before I turned 33, I prayed another prayer that would transform my life drastically. Looking up at my love on the Crucifix, I said, “Jesus, you’ve called me to be a Saint, and I’m not one right now. I don’t know how You are going to do it, but I know You are going to...” I walked out of the room knowing it was in His hands, believing in His grace. 

 

A couple months later, I encountered Christ looking at me through the eyes of another person. I felt a love I'd never felt before. I knew that I was loved as if I was the only person on earth and that there had been a wound in me preventing me from letting His love in fully. 

 

That encounter also confirmed He was calling me to the vocation to marriage, not just to a man on earth, but ultimately to Him, my spouse. From that moment on, I desired nothing but to do His Will. I started reading the mystics and focusing on becoming one with Christ. I started to detach from the things of this earth and seek the Kingdom of Heaven alone. I found peace I never had before.

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By seeking His Will alone, through ups and downs, through personal  relationships, through the Sacraments, etc, I found Andrew who was on the exact same mission to the Heart of Jesus. Being united with someone who shares your same heart for Christ and only what Christ wants is something that can never be explained until you have it.

 

Deo Gratias for the gift of love Jesus has given me first in Himself and also in my relationship with Andrew. 

I was raised in a secular family with no real faith background, and I became an Atheist. As an adolescent, I was deeply depressed and tormented, and I wanted my life to end so I could escape the pain. I judged myself and others severely.
 

When I was 18, I had a spiritual experience that revealed to me the beauty of Creation. It was like a light switched on in my soul overnight, and I was completely consumed with discovering the “capital-T” Truth about God, the meaning of life, and my place in the universe. For nearly a decade, I wandered in search of this Truth while living a very self-centered life. I explored psychology, philosophy, Eastern religion, New Age ideologies, and so on. The only place I refused to look was Christianity.

 

Then, in 2012, I moved across the country to work on a documentary film with someone who became a close spiritual friend. I felt loved and understood by her in a way that felt new to me. My personal healing journey deepened significantly, and something began to awaken in my soul.

 

I learned that my friend had grown up Catholic but was away from the faith because of abuse she had suffered. About three years into our friendship, she had a dramatic reversion to the faith, and she began teaching me about the sacraments and the Truth of Jesus Christ.

 

Though I was strongly resistant at first, I trusted my friend, and ultimately I wound up in a place of complete desperation. As my life fell apart around me and old wounds resurfaced after having been numbed by sin and addiction for years, I called out from my soul: “Jesus, Mary, if you’re real, I want to know. Help me.”

 

I encountered Jesus on Good Friday 2016, and I instantly knew He loved me personally and that I loved Him. I knew He was truly alive in the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, and I knew the only way forward for me was with Him.
 

After this, my life radically changed. I gave myself wholeheartedly to Him, and He took me through years of formation, trials, and healing. My journey took me all around the US and through parts of Latin America. Every chapter brought new and beautiful heights of love to my soul.

 

I studied Servant Leadership and grew in charity while living at an off-grid ranch. I visited Marian Apparition sites and was radically healed by the Mother of God. I was arrested and spent five months in jail, growing in humility and strength in Christ. I led a Catholic men’s house for two years in the suburbs of Philadelphia. All of my experiences brought me closer to my one true love, Jesus Christ.

 

When I met Jenna in 2025, we instantly knew that we shared the same mission. Our journeys in Christ were remarkably similar. The formation He’d brought us both through, and the call He’d put on both of our lives were not only parallel, but one and the same. We soon realized that we were called not only to shared ministry, but also to marriage.

 

Our life together is completely given to God as we spend our days helping other young adults on the path to sanctity. We will be married on June 13, 2026.