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This is Native Soil, a podcast from Fr. Victor Ingalls and 4PM Media. Join us here to talk about our beloved state of Alabama, hear personal stories from Fr. Victor and other local guests, and discover how we can cultivate the soil of our own hearts.
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[Season 6] Episode 14 - Keri & Beau Buhring - Engaged Encounter
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Fr. Victor sits down with Keri & Beau Buhring to talk about Engaged Encounter. DIG IN 1. 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 memb…
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[Season 6] Episode 13 - The Consecrated Single Life
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Fr. Victor talks about the Consecrated Single Life in episode 13 of Native Soil. DIG IN 1. 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 c…
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[Season 6] Episode 12 - Fr. Stephen Vrazel & Scouting
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Fr. Victor sits down with Fr. Stephen Vrazel to talk about Scouting. DIG IN 1. 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 …
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[Season 6] Episode 11 - Deborah Madonia & The Daughters of Mary
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Fr. Victor sits down with Deborah Madonia to talk about the Daughters of Mary. DIG IN 1. 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 i…
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[Season 6] Episode 10 - Charisms - Gifts from God for the Building Up of His Kingdom
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Charisms are gifts from God for the building up of his Kingdom. DIG IN 1. 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 fo…
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[Season 6] Episode 9 - Rafi Rodriguez & Knights of Columbus
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Fr. Victor talks with Rafi Rodriguez about The Knights of Columbus DIG IN 1. 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 …
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[Season 6] Native Soil Live from Daphne with Dan Johnson
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Native Soil LIVE Fr. 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.orgBy Fr. Victor Ingalls
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[Season 6] Episode 8 - Nikki Burns & BLOOM Ministry
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Fr. Victor talks with Nikki Burns about BLOOM Ministry. DIG IN 1. 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 att…
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[Season 6] Episode 7 - Jack McNichol & The Men of St. Joseph
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Fr. Victor and Jack McNichol talk about The Men of St. Joseph in episode 7. DIG IN 1. 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. D…
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Fr. Victor sits down with Ellen Taylor to talk about Archangel Radio. DIG IN 1. 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 l…
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MICKLES PART 4: Accepting change for the new
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MICKLES PART 4: Accepting Change for the new --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deborahmarierodriguez/message
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MICKLES PART 3: When pressure takes its course
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MICKLES PART 4: When pressure takes its course --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deborahmarierodriguez/message
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Pressure brings Diamonds --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deborahmarierodriguez/message
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MICKLE PART 1: The comfortable and compromising christian
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In this podcast I discuss being set apart and pushing out of being comfortable in your walk with God. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deborahmarierodriguez/message
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After 6 months of not recording and a very life traumatic experience. I am back with more episodes! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deborahmarierodriguez/message
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[Season 6] Episode 5 - The Aim of the Christian Life
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The Aim of the Christian Life - The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit DIG IN 1. 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 …
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[Season 6] Episode 4 - Jack McAleer & The Cursillo movement
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Fr. Victor sits down with Jack McAleer to discuss how The Cursillo Movement has impacted his life. DIG IN 1. 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 yo…
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[Season 6] Episode 3 - Julianne Jackson & The Daughters of St. Francis DeSales
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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 pa…
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[Season 6] Episode 2 - Brandon Bender & SEARCH Retreats
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Fr. Victor interviews Brandon Bender about SEARCH Retreats. DIG IN 1. 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…
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[Season 6] Episode 1 - You Go Into the Vineyard Too - The Mission of the Lay Apostolate
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Join Fr. Victor for Season 6 of Native Soil as he dives into the mission of the Lay Apostolate. Dig In Further 1. 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 …
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[Season 5] Episode 14 - Let the Children Come to Me
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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 th…
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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. …
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[Season 5] Episode 12 - Andrea Nemesszeghy
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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 share…
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Live from Auburn with Fr. Peyton Plessala
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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.orgBy Fr. Victor Ingalls
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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 ministr…
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[Series 5] Episode 10 - Jami Graham
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Today we meet a former member of Fr. Steve Williams’ youth group at St. Pius—Jami Graham. Jami servers as youth minister for several years at Christ the King in Daphne and, this past year, began to serve the youth at St. Dominic in Mobile. Jami shares how the Lord led her into this ministry—not something that she set out to do! Over all the years, …
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[Series 5] Episode 9 - Lessons from the Heart
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Today Fr. Victor shares about a Catholic Service Mission Trip he participated in for five summers straight growing up. He reflects upon the great impact it had on him and the elements of that experience that reveal what effective youth ministry looks like. He points at three components in particular that helped to make his faith come alive and be p…
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[Series 5] Episode 8 - Fr. Conner Plessala
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Last week we met Todd Sylvester—former youth minister at St. Ignatius in Mobile and St. Lawrence in Fairhope. Today we meet one of Todd’s former youth group members from St. Ignatius—Fr. Connor Plessala. Fr. Connor shares how youth ministry impacted not only him but his entire family. He also relates how it led to him discovering his call to be a p…
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Today meet another “Godfather” of youth ministry here in the Archdiocese of Mobile—Todd Sylvester. He shares his story of conversion and how the Lord Providentially brought him down to Mobile to do youth ministry. Listen in to how the Lord gave him the grace to serve in that capacity for over 20 years and the lessons he learned along the way. Dig I…
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[Series 5] Episode 6 - Fr. Steve Williams
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You heard about him vicariously last week…time to meet the man face to face! Meet one of the “Godfathers” of youth ministry in the Archdiocese of Mobile. Youth ministry was a big part of his teenage experience, his discernment of the priesthood and has been a consistent thread in his priestly ministry for more than 25 years! A great well to draw fr…
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[Series 5] Episode 5 - Influential Figures
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Today Fr. Victor reflects upon the great impact that two people, in particular, had on his faith throughout his teenage years. His youth minister was a Mom who simply responded to the need of the parish to provide a place for their youth to engage their faith. The priest only served in his parish for one summer but opened his horizons about the rol…
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Meet Silvia Stroud. Wife. Mother. Disciple. Middle School Religion Teacher. Marvel at how the Lord brought her to Alabama and once here drew here deeper into her Catholic faith. Share in her enthusiasm as she shares her passion for transmitting the faith to her middle school students at Christ the King in Daphne. She shares a number of good practic…
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Meet Tex Phelps - our one year old Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry. Learn about his conversion to Catholicism, how the Lord reeled him into youth ministry, how his "yes" has taken him around the Southeast and finally brought him to our Native Soil. He offers a story of "trust" that challenges us to "walk by faith and not by sight." www.n…
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[Series 5] Episode 2 - Pope St. John Paul II
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Today Fr. Victor shares about seeing Pope St. Paul II in St. Louis as an eighth grader. The excitement, energy, enthusiasm and diversity of the experience was not something he was expecting. It blew the lid off what he understood to be “Catholic.” Hopefully, his story…along with the help of St. JPII…can do the same for you! www.nativesoil.org…
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To kick off Season 5, join us in welcoming back our first-ever repeat guest - Archbishop Rode! Listen as he shares about his experience in youth ministry as a young priest and reflects upon how he has seen the nature of youth ministry evolve in his own lifetime. He also shares why "youth ministry" has been such a priority for him in his ministry as…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/6BabitR79ss As we close Season 4, we address, without debate, the greatest poverty present on our Native Soil—a need for Jesus Christ. How may he be better known, loved, worshipped and feasted upon here on our Native Soil? Dig in Further: How can we be closer to Jesus? How can we let him more and more be the Lord of ou…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/N8K00XjcreE Meet Fr. Jones. A Virginia native. A Convert. A Priest. And now pastor of historic St. Jude in Montgomery. We have looked at St. Jude’s history in past episodes. Now, along with their pastor, let’s take a look at where St. Jude is today and where they feel called to be moving forward. Dig in Further: “Talit…
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Fr. Fred Boni & Evangelizing the Unchurched
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/MDHkFtG_Fqg Meet Fr. Fred Boni. Daphne native. Grew up at Christ the King parish and school. Attended McGill-Toolen and then Spring Hill College. Was on the cusp of entering medical school and felt called to enter the seminary. Now pastor at St. Catherine of Sienna in mid-town Mobile. Listen in to Fr. Boni’s heart for …
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/nLuWajtY_gE Today we tackle perhaps the most pervasive types of poverty in our age—silence. Between our smartphones, TVs, Alexas and Siris, it is rare for us to left with a moment of silence. What is the importance of have silence in our lives? What can we do here on our Native Soil to preserve it for us and for others…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/m5-hY2JFxF4 Meet Phyllis Beam. Director of Catholic Social Services branch in Robertsdale. Hear how she got involved in this ministry and how she has seen the Lord work through it. Also hear how she helped Austin discern a first step in responding to his sense of call to serve the poor. Dig In Further: Have you ever vi…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/jf3Xkn9Gxrc “Let no one have contempt for your youth, but set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity” (1 Timothy 4:12). See this verse lived out in a special way today in Austin Gontarski. Grew up in Loxley. Attends St. Patrick’s Parish in Robertsdale. Went to St. Patrick’s School …
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/jb8KOyBnGT0 Today we look at the role of “fathers” in our lives. There is a real crisis today of fathers not being “present” and “engaged” in their children’s lives. With the help of spiritual writer Fr. Jaque Philippe, we seek to understand the effect of this poverty of “fatherhood” today. We consider, how can fatherh…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7fq8hZQxUMc Meet Anthony Tobin. Originally from New York state. Hear how a compelling youth minister came into his life and changed the course of everything. Be amazed at how the Lord invited Anthony and his family to move to our Native Soil. Walk with him through his several years as a youth minister and into this new…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/yzyvMW2t1Pw Meet Jim Backes. A Mobile native. McGill grad. Notre Dame alum. And long time engineer with Hargrove. Listen to see how the Lord called him into prison ministry. It was a surprise to him and those involved with the ministry. Marvel at the mutual impact the Lord has wrought on both Jim and those he serves. S…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/r7FR6R_sWqc Today, Fr. Victor introduces us to one of his favorite books—Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle, SJ. In this memoir, Fr. Boyle shares the spiritual lessons the Lord has taught him in serving for 20+ years in LA, in the most densely gang-populated area in the world. A location in our Archdiocese gets a shout…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/RsPa8bbEBUU Meet Michelle Schultz. Wife. Mother of 6. Convert to the Catholic faith. Long time youth minister. Recently started a non-profit to serve pregnant students at Auburn University called Baby Steps. As someone who once had an abortion in a moment of fear and anxiety facing her future, marvel at how the Lord ha…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AxzBbdG1JOw We choose some saints. Other saints choose us. Listen how St. Damien of Molokai chose Fr. Victor. Be inspired by Fr. Damien’s heroic life—serving the lepers who were quarantined on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Be challenged to consider who are the “lepers” in our midst today? How are we being called to l…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wkx2_hR-Nnk Meet Sr. Cecelia. A Little Sister of the Poor who serves Christ in our elderly poor in Mobile. Learn how she heard this calling. Understand about the founding of the Little Sisters in France so many years ago. Be challenged to consider where Christ is waiting to be served by you. Dig In Further: Do you have…
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WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/GcSdJnjH1NU “And who is my neighbor?” This question prompted Jesus to tell the parable of the Good Samaritan. Join us this season as we contemplate this parable and what it means to us here on our Native Soil. Why does the Lord have a preferential love for the poor—the orphan, the widow, the alien, the imprisoned? What…
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S2E9 Singles and Celibacy: The Competition Trap
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In this episode I speak about how to eliminate competition in your life in order to pull through distraction free. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deborahmarierodriguez/message
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