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Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

MFP 189: Marriage as a Healing Sacrament: an interview with Chris and Natalie Stefanick

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Kids & Family

4.9841 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

 "For a Christian, joy isn't what happens when life is going perfectly; it's what happens when you know you are loved perfectly, even when life is a mess." ~ Chris Stefanick

Sometimes we look at other couples and think, "Those people have it all together. It must be easy to be married to that person.  We are the only one's struggling." Nothing could be further from the truth. This interview starts with fun questions like "What's the best part about being married to Natalie?" and "How did Chris pop the question?".  But then, true to the brand of "Real Life Catholic", Chris and Natalie quickly opened up their marriage to us to share the very real pain and suffering that they have journeyed through together.   All of us have our own battles to fight in our lives, and often we bring these battles into our marriages.  The question is, do our spouses come alongside us and fight FOR us, or do they themselves become another "battle to fight"?  In this conversation, we discuss the process of healing from sexual abuse within marriage, the effect on both spouses, how you can help your spouse through their struggles, and how to lean in to all the grace that the sacrament of marriage has to give.  This is a raw and real conversation that we believe will speak to the hearts of husbands and wives who take the time to listen. 

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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.

0:23.9

Hello, messy families.

0:25.8

It is the countdown.

0:27.8

That's right.

0:28.3

The final countdown.

0:29.7

The end of the school year.

0:30.8

So it's kind of like two different attitudes.

0:32.7

You know, if you're a homeschooler, you're like, we're almost there.

0:35.3

We're almost there.

0:36.0

If your kids are in school, you're like, they're coming. Brace for it. Brace for impact. It is, it is a great time of year,

0:44.9

though. I love, I love just things that are beginning to sprout and flowers and everything that's

0:50.5

coming forth. Life that's, that's coming. Yes, I have a hundred strawberry plants that

0:56.1

hopefully by the time the podcast goes out and they will be planted and raspberry plants that are,

1:02.3

they are getting together, which we had at our old house. And I've never haven't gotten chance to

1:07.0

put in a strawberry patch since we've moved into this new house seven years ago. I love,

1:11.2

I love actually doing stuff outside, clearing out our property, using it more and

1:16.2

that's right. Building stuff with kids. We're talking to one of our sons, too, about just

1:20.1

building up some forts this summer. So that's on the list for this summer. Important things.

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