MFP 111: Made for Family LIVE
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"The family is indeed more than any other social reality, the place where an individual can exist 'for himself' through the sincere gift of self...it is the 'sanctuary of life'"
~ St. John Paul II, Letter to Families, #11
This episode is our first LIVE podcast, recorded during our Australian Tour in May 2019. During this tour, we presented a seminar sponsored by our good friends (Australians, read "mates!" ) at the Marriage Project. In this talk we examined the question "What is the nature of family?" Society cannot define was this nature is, because society did not give family its nature. Family has a given meaning all its own. According to St. John Paul II, a family is a community of life whose mission it is to guard, reveal and communicate love. It is a man and woman bound together in a life long commitment whose love is fruitful. Therefore, our understanding of marriage must be seen within the context of family, since not only do we all come from a family, but we are made for family.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:23.7 | Good day, mate. |
| 0:26.5 | We are recording this right now in Australia, Sydney, Australia. |
| 0:31.3 | Yes. |
| 0:32.1 | And we had, it's just awesome. |
| 0:34.9 | But we're heading back home. |
| 0:36.2 | We had just finished up a two-week tour, speaking tour, actually. |
| 0:40.0 | And this was just beyond, I guess, our wildest expectations of everything that we, I don't know. |
| 0:46.6 | People would say, well, what were you expecting in Australia? |
| 0:49.4 | I'm like, well, to be honest with you, I was just trying to arrange my children and make sure everybody was going |
| 0:54.9 | where they had to go. I really wasn't thinking about Australia and coming here. And so I really had |
| 1:00.9 | zero expectations just because I was so distracted with my life. But it has been amazing. |
| 1:06.7 | Well, and I have actually always wanted to come to Australia. Mike now reveals his deepest longing. |
| 1:12.7 | I don't say deepest, but it was actually something very, very... |
| 1:16.1 | It was on your bucket list. |
| 1:17.2 | Yes, it was definitely there. |
| 1:18.8 | And loved coming, and it was really amazing. |
| 1:22.2 | So we had listeners, particularly I want to thank Albert and Steph and a whole bunch of people |
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