MFP 180: Monks, Parents and Prayer

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Kids & Family

4.9 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Lent is a great time to take inventory of our spiritual life and ask ourselves, "How am I doing in my relationship with God?" To help us all do that, we decided to interview Mike's spiritual director of many years, Fr. Boniface Hicks. Fr. Boniface is a director of directors! A Benedictine monk, he runs the Institute for Ministry Formation at St. Vincent Archabbey and is the author of several books on spirituality. But more important than that, he is a spiritual father giving guidance, encouragement, and sharing the Father's love to many people around the country and even the world. In this interview we discuss why we should pray at all! We also get into the practicalities of prayer - how to do it, how to make the time, and the effect it can have on our lives. Jump in and listen to this discussion we had with Fr. Boniface and our members on our most recent Neighborhood Date Night.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the messy family podcast.
0:05.0	Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family.
0:10.0	Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin.
0:15.0	They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts.
0:18.0	Because family life is really messy.
0:25.6	Hello, messy families.
0:27.9	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:34.2	This is, if you're listening to it, regardless of where you are, we are pre-Lent.
0:36.9	We are in February 2020. That's right.
0:40.7	So this is our pre-Lent. We are in February 2020. That's right. So this is our, this is our pre-Lent inspiration, I think, you know, with a spiritual aspect. We're all about helping parents and we think
0:47.2	this is the time, you know, for us to get back to some spring training in Lent. But before we
0:53.4	jump into today's topic, I thought you were going to say we're all about parents and so we're going to give you a heads up that Lent. But before we jump into today's topic.
0:54.2	I thought you were going to say we're all about parents and so we're going to give you a heads
0:56.9	up that Lent is a week away, which I can't even believe.
1:01.2	Okay, this is your warning.
1:02.5	Lent always catches this by surprise.
1:04.7	Actually, I'm guaranteed that there are going to be both listening after Lent has already
1:08.3	begun.
1:09.6	Really?
1:10.1	You're a sucker.
1:13.0	I mean, oh, we'll delete that later.
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