The Love Good Podcast with Jimmy Mitchell

Jimmy Mitchell reflects on his first year back in seminary and the unexpected journey that has brought him to the Diocese of Nashville and the Apostles of Divine Love. After more than a decade of ministry, music, Love Good, podcasting, and Catholic education, Jimmy shares why he has chosen to leave some things behind, preserve the best of his past, and enter more fully into a season of prayer, study, purification, and discernment. He offers a glimpse into the emerging charism of the Apostles of Divine Love, his growing sense of a call to the priesthood, and the many people whose prayers and support have carried him this far. As this podcast enters a season of quiet, Jimmy asks for prayers for perseverance—and leaves open the possibility that, one day, there might be a new chapter on the other side of ordination.

What makes a man capable of giving himself completely for the sake of another? In this King's Message from Fraternus Ranch 2026, Jimmy Mitchell explores the relationship between love, vocation, brotherhood, and the willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice. Drawing on the Passion of Christ, the story of a dramatic military rescue, and Jimmy’s own discernment of the priesthood, he challenges men to receive the love of God so deeply that they become capable of giving themselves away without counting the cost. Ultimately, the Christian life is a call to imitate Christ’s self-emptying love—in our vocations, our friendships, and the ordinary sacrifices of everyday life.

In this 2026 keynote from Steubenville Joliet, Jimmy Mitchell speaks to young men about the importance of friendship and brotherhood in becoming the men God has created them to be. Drawing on his own experiences of destructive and life-giving friendships, his journey back to seminary, and the witness of saints and faithful friends, he explores the different forms of love and why no man can become fully himself or become a saint in isolation. Through the examples of Jonathan and David, Peter, James and John, and his own friendships, Jimmy shows how brothers can challenge, encourage, and carry one another toward holiness. Ultimately, the talk is a call to reject isolation, find faithful friends, and build a brotherhood centered on Christ.

Jimmy Mitchell shares the full story of his return to the seminary and his discernment of the priesthood, beginning with a pilgrimage to Rome and a series of unexpected moments of clarity at the tombs of St. Peter and St. Ignatius and before a relic of the True Cross. He reflects honestly on the tension between a life he genuinely loved in Tampa and the growing conviction that God was calling him to something more radical: celibate priestly service and complete availability for the salvation of souls. Ultimately, this is a story about vocation, providence, surrender, and learning to say “yes” when God makes the next step clear.

Where can we find true rest when we are carrying the burdens, wounds, and anxieties of life? In this 2023 Steubenville Main Campus talk, Jimmy Mitchell turns to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as the ultimate refuge—a love that satisfies, a hope that never disappoints, and a peace that the world cannot give. Through stories of suffering, vulnerability, and the unexpected messiness of life, he explores how God can meet us precisely where we feel most exposed and helpless. Ultimately, Jimmy invites us to stop hiding from our brokenness, surrender to Christ’s mercy, and discover the freedom of being loved as beloved sons and daughters.

Do I have what it takes? In this 2023 Steubenville Mid-America men’s session, Jimmy Mitchell explores the search for identity through the lens of fatherhood, drawing especially on Pope Benedict XVI’s reflection on the crisis of fatherhood and the need for fathers to bestow identity. Through stories from his own childhood, family, sports, and college years, Jimmy examines the ways men can seek their identity in success, performance, achievement, and the approval of others. Ultimately, the talk points back to the Father revealed by Jesus Christ: the One who calls us beloved sons and gives us an identity strong enough to withstand everything else.

What exactly is culture—and how can Christians help rebuild it? In the final chapter of Let Beauty Speak, Jimmy Mitchell explores culture as more than art, politics, language, or cuisine: it is the shared way of life that bonds people together and shapes what they believe is possible. Drawing on his experience in Paris and at Notre Dame, along with Pope Benedict XVI and stories of Catholic culture transforming young people, he considers how Christ serves as the integrating principle of authentic human culture. Ultimately, the session calls Christians to reclaim a vibrant culture of conversion by making holiness ordinary, living the Gospel visibly, and allowing beauty to reveal once again what it means to be human.

What does it mean to live with a profound sense of mission? In this session, Jimmy Mitchell explores the universal Christian call to holiness and the unique, unrepeatable mission God entrusts to every person, while reflecting on the ways vocation and mission unfold gradually throughout our lives. Through the story of his brother Bobby's death and the unexpected healing that followed, Jimmy describes how suffering became connected to a lifelong mission of accompanying and evangelizing young people. Drawing on Lumen Gentium, St. John Paul II, and his own journey of discernment, he ultimately challenges us to recognize that mission belongs not only to priests, religious, or professional missionaries, but to every Christian.

What does God have uniquely for you to do with your life? In this session, Jimmy Mitchell explores the dignity and purpose of work through the words of St. John Henry Newman, Pope Benedict XVI, the Second Vatican Council, and St. John Paul II. He reflects on work not simply as a means of earning money or achieving success, but as a participation in God's creative and redemptive work—and as a means of growing in holiness. Ultimately, the session invites us to discover our “definite service,” bring Christ into the ordinary tasks of every day, and allow even our smallest duties to become opportunities for sanctification and the glory of God.

What if leisure isn't an escape from reality, but a deeper entrance into it? In this session, Jimmy Mitchell explores leisure as an antidote to busyness, workaholism, entertainment, and the noise that keeps us from receiving the world as it really is. Drawing on his experiences as a missionary in Honduras, the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the philosophy of Joseph Pieper, he explores aesthetic, philosophical, social, and religious forms of leisure and their power to restore wonder and contemplation. Ultimately, leisure teaches us to remember that we are human beings before we are human doings—and that our work itself should ultimately lead us toward prayer, rest, and God.