Native Soil

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 members, friends, recreation, and entertainment? 

2. How can your parish better support married couples and those who are preparing for marriage? How can you pray for married couples more? Is there anything the Lord might want you to do to support this Sacrament? 

3. What aspects of Catholic Christian Marriage are most countercultural today? How can these teachings be better explained to couples today? What resources do they need to have to be able to contend with the way the rest of the world goes about marriage? 

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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 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 single (lay) person? 

3. What secular spaces of our Native Soil do you occupy? How might the Lord want to use you and your gifts to bring Light and Life to those places? 

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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 "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 that taught you important life lessons - responsibility, service, ingenuity, adventure, safety, industriousness, etc? How can you be that mentor to somebody else? 

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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 inform the way they live out their vocation? 

3. Do you have a close relationship with the Blessed Mother? If not, how could you develop one? How could she help you to be more open and available to the Word of God in your life? 

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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 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 clarity about the gifts God has invested within you at the natural level? Supernatural level? 
3. How do you think God is calling you to use the gifts he has given you for the building up of his Church? What are the needs of your Native Soil, community and parish? How can your gifts meet those needs? 

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