MFP 157: Earth Day aka "Creation Day"
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
April 22 is Earth Day, but maybe we Catholics could call it Creation Day and celebrate the loving Father who gave this world to us to "till and keep". Maybe we were thinking of this because Mike was chopping down old trees on our property and we all have sore backs this morning! But seriously, some may look at the extreme environmentalists and be tempted to move to the other extreme and not take seriously their stewardship of the land and animals that are part of our world - but that is not a Christian response! Time and time again our Church has encouraged people to take responsibility for creation around us, be it plants, animals, or the earth itself. We are supposed to take care of it and use it well. Listen in as we talk about teaching and modeling for our children the correct way to care for the gift of creation.
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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. |
| 0:23.8 | Hello, messy families. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a great day. |
| 0:28.8 | That's right. |
| 0:29.6 | Even though it was snowing yesterday in Ohio in April. |
| 0:33.0 | It was April and we had snow covering our cars. |
| 0:36.1 | We had two days of snow. |
| 0:37.4 | Flowers that were in full |
| 0:38.8 | balloon that then got covered up with snow. But today the sun is out. Snow has melted. |
| 0:47.6 | Skies are blue. Still a little chilly. That picture you took of our flowers with snow all over them. |
| 0:52.2 | Was that this morning? That was yesterday. Oh, that was yesterday. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, yesterday. |
| 0:54.9 | So today is, we're recording this. |
| 0:58.1 | It may, you know, you might be listening to it some other day, but it is April 22nd, 2021. |
| 1:03.8 | And in Ohio, it snowed yesterday and it was absolutely freezing today. |
| 1:08.6 | But what is the most disheartening thing is that like three days ago, it was like 70 degrees |
| 1:14.5 | outside. |
| 1:15.0 | Because we're running around shorts. |
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