Circumstances change. How do you adapt?
What can a forest fire that occurred in 1949 and 16 elite smoke jumpers who were deployed to fight it teach us about life, strategy, and success? By the way, a smoke jumper is a fire fighter who is deployed by parachute into a strategic zone of a forest in order to begin fighting a wild fire. They jump into action with about 150lbs of equipment.
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Episode 2: The Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades – Lead, Follow, and Do Not Be Afraid.
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In this Episode, Bishop Rhoades discusses the impact of leadership and humility in life. He shares with us the power that daily prayer and reflection time can have in our lives. Finally, he lets us know what he does for fun and some of the things happening in the Diocese that he is excited about in the near future.
Bishop Rhoades was born November 26, 1957, in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, located in Schuylkill County in the Diocese of Allentown, and was baptized at Saint Canicus Church. He grew up in Lebanon, PA and graduated from Lebanon Catholic High School in 1975.
He enrolled at Mount Saint Mary’s College (now University) in Emmitsburg, Maryland, in the fall of 1975, and studied there for two years. In 1977, he entered Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania, and earned a bachelors degree in philosophy in 1979. He did his theological studies at the North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University, both in Rome, from 1979-1983. He also studied Spanish at the University of Salamanca in Spain during the summer of 1982.
Cardinal Terence Cooke ordained Bishop Rhoades a deacon at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City in 1982. He was ordained a priest of the Harrisburg Diocese on July 9, 1983, by then-Auxiliary Bishop William Keeler. The ceremony took place at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Lebanon, and was the first ordination to take place in the county.
He was ordained a Bishop on December 9, 2004, by Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia. On that date, he began his ministry as Bishop of Harrisburg, a diocese which encompasses 15 counties of south-central Pennsylvania and which includes over 250,000 Catholics.
To find out more about Bishop Rhoades, see his full bio here.