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In this episode we are joined by 2022 Christus Vivit award winner Catherine Coffey as she shares not only how she encountered God, but how encounters with Him will look different for each of us. Our faith offers a variety of devotions and ways to pray, but we are not called to pursue all of them. The Lord calls each person to their own way, and we develop our way as we continue to be intentional and consistent with prayer.

In this episode our guest, Mackenzie Tucker, shares about his encounter with Christ at SEEK and answering the call to serve as a FOCUS missionary.

In this episode of Be Alive we are joined by Chris and Mary Kate Mueller as they share how they individually encountered God, how they met and discerned their vocation, and how they continue to encounter God through prayer in their daily life despite the busyness and challenges that life brings.

Be Alive is back for another season! As we start diving into the topic of encounters, Fr. Bob and Kaitlyn talk to Carlos Esquivia-Cruz, a young adult from St. Catherine of Siena, who encountered God through serving as a summer missionary at Camp Covecrest with Life Teen. Carlos shares how a mountain top experience changed his relationship with Christ and what he did to maintain that relationship upon returning home.

Fr. Bob and Kaitlyn talk with Audrey Allen, a student at St. Francis Academy and parishioner of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Gainesville. Audrey shares her eucharistic witness and how her faith and belief in the Eucharist grew through doing research and learning more about eucharistic miracles. 

Aaron Gibson from San Juan Del Rio joins us in this episode as he shares about serving at his parish as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion and how he has grown in his own relationship with Christ by taking on this great responsibility. 

In this episode we are joined by March Roth, a young adult member of the Brazilian community and Catholic Campus Ministry Jax. In connection with the National Eucharistic Revival, March shares his knowledge on the prefigures of the Eucharist in the Old Testament. 

Annabelle Craig from Epiphany Catholic Church joins us on the podcast to share about her encounters with Christ in the Eucharist and the importance of not only relying on powerful encounters or strong feelings of consolation to grow in intimacy with our Lord. 

We each have our own personal relationship with Christ which means that we each experience his love differently. Sophia Stetter, from Queen of Peace parish in Gainesville, joins us to share how she has experienced Christ’s love through encounters she had in adoration. 

We are back with season 5 of Be Alive! This season focuses specifically on the Eucharist as we are in the midst of the National Eucharistic Revival. In this episode Fr. Bob and Kaitlyn are joined by Mikala Edenfield, a young adult from Epiphany Catholic Church, as she shares about her journey of becoming Catholic and how she has fostered her relationship with our Lord in the Eucharist through adoration. 

Sr. Mary Rachel of the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and a UF alumni, joins us to share her vocation story and how she surrendered her will to the Lord despite the plans she originally had for her life.

Mary Alice Klenk, a young adult parishioner at Epiphany Catholic Church in Lake City, joins us to share her story of having great faith in the midst of being diagnosed with Myocarditis, experiencing heart failure, and having to undergo a heart transplant.