WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/RsPa8bbEBUUMeet 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 has brought her healing and inspired her to give other women facing the same fears the support they need to make a different decision. Dig In Fur...

WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AxzBbdG1JOwWe 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 love them?Dig In Further:Have you ever had a saint “choose” you? Keep inserting himself/herself in your path? If not, maybe ask the Lord to sen...

WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wkx2_hR-NnkMeet 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 elderly people in your life that you are in regular contact with? If not, how you you reach out?How about your relationship with the elderly in...

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 would it look like if we did? What if we more fully let the poor determine the priorities of our family, our parish and our Archdiocese?Dig In Furt...

WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/n4ougp0IIck Synopsis: Meet Fr. Victor Ingalls. Host of Native Soil and going into his sixth year as Vocations Director. Hear how he felt God’s calling to become a priest. Despite being resistant to the call, marvel at how the Lord persisted with the call until Fr. Victor was able to trust.Dig In Further:Have you ever been afraid of what you knew God was asking you to do? Why? What bad did you fear would happen by following God?How have you learned to trust God, e...

WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/bLzv181JInoSynopsis: Meet Anna Lee Ingalls. Amongst many things, she is the mother of our host Fr. Victor Ingalls. Hear how she was raised Protestant in Maryland and how she came to the Catholic faith once married with children. Also, hear her perspective on her son’s calling to the priesthood—seems like she was clued in before him. Listen as she shares what the Priesthood means to her now.Dig In Further:Have you ever been aware that the Lord was doing something ...

WACTH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/OYYiqF_DUZoSynopsis: Meet Ryan Dardard. A Mobile native (Bayou LaBatre really!). Former professional poker player and seminarian—a rare combo! Now recently married and finished law school. Hear how the Lord has led him through all these chapters and given him a conviction to start his married life back on our Native Soil. Dig In Further:What are the different chapters the Lord has led you through in life? How would you divide them? What would you title the c...

WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/S9VTmXlLA9kSynopsis: Meet Srs. Elizabeth (formerly Olivia Barter) and Sr. Lucia. They are both nuns at the cloistered Carmel Convent in Covington, LA. Sr. Elizabeth grew up Christ the King Parish in Daphne where she attended grade school and was active in the youth group. She graduated from McGill Toolen. Sr. Lucia grew up in Lafayette and entered the Carmel a couple years after Sr. Elizabeth after teaching for a couple of years. Hear how God revealed himself to ...

WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/e9YyXRxXmiA Synopsis: Meet Sony Garcia. Wife. Artist. Singer. Guitar Player. Director of Pastoral Juvenil (Youth Ministry) for our Office of Hispanic Ministry. Teacher at Little Flower. Director of Music for Spanish Mass at St. Catherine’s. And much more! Listen how the Lord brought Sonya to our Native Soil from Puerto Rico. Marvel at how the Lord got her attention to get involved in our Church in so many different ways!Dig In Further:Are you artistic? Where did ...

WATCH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/GObFN3WMWw8Synopsis: Meet Dc. Clarence Darrington. A Montgomery native. Grew up at the City of St. Jude. Through a divorce in his family, went to the Baptist Church for years and became a leader. Listen how the Lord brought him full circle back to the Catholic Church, led him to his Catholic wife and revealed a call to become a permanent deacon. A true story of God’s providence!Dig In Further:What aspects of being raised in the Catholic faith really sunk in? What...