Have you ever had your whole life planned out — college, the girl, the wedding, the kids, right on schedule — and then felt God quietly rearrange the timeline on you?

That’s exactly where our guest this week found himself. Anthony Giuntini is an electrical engineer who spends his weekdays designing power and lighting systems for buildings. Underneath the engineer’s logic is a guy who once had a literal countdown to marriage running through his head at thirteen years old, and found himself, instead, called to something he never saw coming, a vocation to give his life to God as a Numerary in Opus Dei.

This is an honest conversation in a way discernment stories don’t always get to be. Anthony walks us through the disorienting season when he moved cities away from his friends, the mentor who helped guide him, and a breakthrough moment in Rome that reframed everything for his very analytical mind. Along the way, there’s a story about a dying man’s final prayer that you’ll want to hear Anthony tell it himself.

Whether you’re married, discerning, or just trying to figure out what God is asking of you right now, we think you’ll find something here worth sitting with.

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