Fr. Victor sits down with Keri & Beau Buhring to talk about Engaged Encounter. DIG IN1. How can you see your marriage more and more as a "gift" and a "sacrament?" How can you model Christ love more effectively for the world around you? What is the right balance in a marriage for the relationship between spouses, career, children, other family members, friends, recreation, and entertainment? 2. How can your parish better support married couples and those who are preparing for mar...
Fr. Victor talks about the Consecrated Single Life in episode 13 of Native Soil. DIG IN1. What would it look like for you, in your current state-in-life, to embrace more the evangelical counsels - Poverty, Chastity & Obedience? These are the three ancient hallmarks of a Christian more perfectly surrendering their life to Christ. 2. Have you ever considered that Christ may be asking you to make a Gift of all that you are to Him? As a religious brother or sister? As a consecrated ...
Fr. Victor sits down with Fr. Stephen Vrazel to talk about Scouting.DIG IN1. How do you and your family and friends spend time in God's creation? How can you spend more time outdoors, enjoying God's creation and the people he has placed in your life? 2. What lessons can we learn from "scouting" for our everyday Christian life? How can we be more "service oriented" and even more ready to serve Christ and his kingdom with the gifts he has given us? 3. Who were the mentors in your life...
Fr. Victor sits down with Deborah Madonia to talk about the Daughters of Mary. DIG IN1. Might the Lord be calling you to participate in the Daughters of Mary? To start a chapter in your parish? 2. If not the Daughters of Mary, how is it that the women of your parish can gather to reflect upon the Word of God and let it penetrate their hearts and inform the way they live out their vocation? 3. Do you have a close relationship with the Blessed Mother? If not, how could you develo...
Charisms are gifts from God for the building up of his Kingdom. DIG IN1. Do you feel like you have surrendered to God and his Spirit is living in you? Have you given God permission to unlock all of the graces of your Baptism and Confirmation? If not, consider gathering with some members of the Body of Christ and asking them to pray with you and for you to do so. 2. What spiritual gifts has the Lord given to you? Do you feel like you are a good steward of them? Could you gain greater...
Fr. Victor talks with Rafi Rodriguez about The Knights of ColumbusDIG IN1. Do you have a Knight of Columbus chapter at your parish? Are you aware of the ministries they support? How might you be called to join the Knights or collaborate with their ministries? 2. Whether it is the KofC or another parish ministry you belong to, how can you be more attune to the actual needs of your neighbor - those who live on your Native Soil - i.e. within your parish boundaries? How can you and your mini...
Native Soil LIVEFr. Victor sits down in front of a live audience to talk to Dan Johnson, creative director at 4PM Media who has had many roles in the lay apostolate over the years. www.nativesoil.org
Fr. Victor talks with Nikki Burns about BLOOM Ministry. DIG IN1. Does your parish have a ministry to support the spiritual and social needs of the women in your parish? If not, how might BLOOM serve as a template for something to "bloom" in your parish? 2. Has the Lord ever put an inspiration in your heart to start something new? Have you paid attention to it? If so, how did you take the first steps? If not, how can you open yourself up with greater courage to the voice of God in yo...
Fr. Victor and Jack McNichol talk about The Men of St. Joseph in episode 7. DIG IN1. How do you prepare for Sunday Mass? Do you pray with the readings beforehand? Do you reflect upon the readings with members of your family or with people in your parish? 2. How can you share your faith more with your spouse? Children? Family members? Friends? 3. Does your parish have a MOSJ chapter? If so, is God calling you to join? If not, may the Lord be calling you to start one? If not, how...
Fr. Victor sits down with Ellen Taylor to talk about Archangel Radio. DIG IN1. Do you listen to Catholic radio? Catholic music? Catholic podcasts? If not, how can you fill your mind more and more with the Word of God so that you can be nourished with it and be able to share it with greater facility? 2. What is your relationship with your parents like? Your siblings? In the midst of the busyness of life, might God be calling you to create more space to appreciate and invest in these ...
The Aim of the Christian Life - The Acquisition of the Holy SpiritDIG IN1. How can you create a deeper and regular awareness of the presence of God dwelling in you? 2. How can your life, your home, your school, your parish be more and more a place of "communion?" A place where everything in the environment is aimed at helping each person to grow in communion with the life of the Trinity dwelling in their soul by virtue of their baptism? 3. What is the biggest obstacle right now in y...
Fr. Victor sits down with Jack McAleer to discuss how The Cursillo Movement has impacted his life. DIG IN1. Have you ever been on a retreat before? If not, perhaps Cursillo could be your first experience? Consider the river of grace that has flowed in Jack's life since his first retreat. Imagine wha the Lord might want to do in your life! 2. Do you have a small group of men or women with whom you can share your faith? What the Lord is doing in your life? Your joys and struggles in t...
In Episode 3, Fr. Victor talks with Julianne Jackson about her journey with The Daughters of St. Francis DeSales. Julianne prayed for years for the Lord to take her deeper in her faith—and the Lord responded in an amazing way. Have you ever asked the Lord consistently to take you deeper in your faith? Could you trust that the Lord would create a path for you, even where there appears to be no path ahead? Have you ever read St. Frances de Sales’ Introduction to the Devout Life? If no...
Fr. Victor interviews Brandon Bender about SEARCH Retreats.DIG IN1. What are you SEARCHING for in your life? In what area of your life are you particularly searching for meaning and understanding? Consider taking some time to invite the Lord into that space. Invite God to speak into this area of your life. 2. How are you involved in Peer ministry? Who does the Lord want to bless in your immediate surroundings? Is the Lord calling you to attend SEARCH? To be a team leader? To serve your p...
Join Fr. Victor for Season 6 of Native Soil as he dives into the mission of the Lay Apostolate. Dig In Further1. How do you feel called to labor in the vineyard - to cultivate God's kingdom in your midst? 2. How do you feel you need to be grafted on the Vine that is Jesus Christ - I. E. to rely on Him more and not on yourself? In what ways do you feel fruitless and need Christ to come and fill you with his life? 3. What are the ordinary circumstances of your day-to-day life? Ho...
To wrap up this season on Youth Ministry, Fr. Victor shows how “youth ministry” is not a modern reality but something that goes all the way back to the heart of Jesus Christ himself. Jesus saw how vulnerable and formative our youth are and was very serious about caring for them and protecting them from sin. Fr. Victor shows how Jesus’s heart for the youth has lived on in the lives of the saints over the years—St. Benedict, St. John Bosco, Servant of God Luigi Giussani & Blessed Carlo Acut...
Joy Lang is the Youth Minster at Little Flower Parish in Mobile, AL. She grew up at Heart of Mary Parish and attended McGill. She really encountered the Lord in a new and life changing way a couple years back when she took her youth group to ACYC. Learn how the Lord brought Joy to this moment and how it has affected her entire life moving forward. Dig In Further:1. Do the teens in your youth group have somebody to minister to them who “looks like them?” If not, might there be ways of inv...
Today you will meet a rather unique woman—a person who is half Hungarian and half Chilean who grew up in Puerto Rico, lived for a time in Chile and Hungary and left her Native Soil when a friend invited her to take a job in Mobile! Andrea offers a compelling testimony to God’s Providence and the blessings that come when we trust the Lord. She shares a unique perspective on ministering to youth in a diverse parish setting and reflects on the particular needs of Hispanic families in feeli...
We recently had a live show at Well Red in Auburn with special guest Fr. Peyton Plessala. It was a grace-filled night with a great audience.www.nativesoil.org
Meet Ann Palamara. Again, appreciate the lengths God has undertaken to bring just the right people to live out the faith here on our Native Soil. Originally from a dairy farm in upstate New York, marvel as Ann shares how the Lord brought her to Eufaula, AL because of its “soil!” Literally, its SOIL! The Lord would get Ann involved in Church ministry quickly upon arriving and would end up serving the youth at her parish for years. She now claims “Eufaula” as her “Native Soil” and her parish as...