Can Mothers Work?
Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Can a woman be a mother and also work? It is the responsibility of all parents to discern what is best for their children, for their family. Part of this discernment typically involves deciding whether one parent stays home or both parents work. This decision is not always easy or straightforward. Fr. Josh Johnson is joined by Deacon Michael Parker to talk about this decision and what proper discernment looks like.
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At every stage of life, we are called to discern what God’s will is for our lives. As parents, we must also discern what is best for our children.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up and welcome to ask Father Josh the podcast waggot to listen to your questions |
| 0:08.0 | pray with them study them talk to other peers about them and then hopefully respond in such a way that is good for you to become a saint in your walk toward eternity. |
| 0:16.0 | You can hit me with your own questions, comments, and critiques at W.W. dot-A Press. dot com slash, |
| 0:23.4 | Ask Father Josh. |
| 0:25.4 | Once again, I am joined my good friend, brother in Christ, |
| 0:28.9 | Deacon Michael Parker. |
| 0:30.6 | Please say the Parker. |
| 0:31.8 | Please say the Parker. Please say the Parker. |
| 0:33.2 | DJ serving in the building, uh-uh. |
| 0:35.0 | Check, check, check. |
| 0:36.0 | A microphone check. |
| 0:38.7 | So Deacon Michael Parker, today we're going to be talking about a question that in recent years |
| 0:45.0 | surprisingly has become controversial in the Catholic circles. Can |
| 0:50.2 | mothers work? So before we get to that conversation, |
| 0:54.8 | I want to invite you to share with us a glory story. So, And So, Awesome so glory story man that's been popping up and it's been something I've been raving about |
| 1:43.2 | recently because of course with Vagabond missions where which I'm the area |
| 1:48.0 | director for for the Baton Rouge site the thing is as of this starting, what we're supposed to be doing is just doing a lot of contact work. |
| 1:56.5 | And what that means is that we just go out into the neighborhoods, we go into the highways, get to highways by ways to, you know, kind of learn the neighbors and just to like really start being in relationship and fellowship with them. |
| 2:07.0 | So ideally with the way these things are supposed to go is like the contact work is supposed to happen for a period of about |
| 2:14.0 | maybe going on close to about a year but we've been really like in the pavement the team |
| 2:18.7 | of missionaries I'm and I we have a Kendrick's land we a Sarah we have a lana and like literally we've been like really going out and just meeting the community and because of that like it's been so responsive to where now we have the kids who are coming to the parish and |
| 2:34.7 | the thing that's really the glory about this y'all is that whenever we |
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