Leading Others to Jesus Through Scripture — with Jenna Violi
Season 2, Episode 10 | Originally aired on July 6, 2020
About the episode
"I feel like if we can understand scripture better before we walk in on Sunday, it's going to keep us more engaged."
Once Jenna Violi joined a bible study group and she started to delve into scripture, her life was changed. Even more, the way that she viewed the mass changed and she started to really engage with what she was hearing. Now, Jenna brings this same love of the Gospel and relationship with Jesus to her high school students as a theology teacher as well as to the mass as a music minister and cantor. In this episode, I talk to Jenna about how she came to fall in love with scripture, what it's like to teach theology to girls in high school, and how she came to start her podcast, A Shower of Roses.
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Meet Jenna Violi
Jenna Violi is the host of the podcast A Shower of Roses. She has been teaching Theology and directing the retreats at an all-girls Catholic high school for four years. Jenna earned her Bachelor of Music Education degree with a concentration in voice in May of 2015 from West Chester University of Pennsylvania but felt the Lord calling her to teach young people about His Goodness and Truth. She graduated from Cabrini University with her M.A. in Religious and Pastoral Studies in May of 2018. This pursuit of a Religious Studies degree led Jenna to ponder and explore what we can do to help people engage in the Mass more fully. This led to the start of A Shower of Roses, a weekly podcast that provides an explanation of the upcoming Sunday’s Mass readings.
On the weekends Jenna plays guitar, piano, and cantors at several parishes. Jenna lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia with her parents and three sisters and is engaged to her wonderful, saintly fiancé, Paul. She loves corgis, coffee, and writing music.