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Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

MFP 249: JPII's Secret to Catholic Family LIfe

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

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

"This is a book about love; more exactly, it is about the love that knows no end, the love our hearts yearn for. The love that consumes, that reverberates, that heightens—it is a love that costs everything—yet offers everything. - Theresa and Peter Martin, The Rule

When the young priest Fr. Karol Wojtyla was living in Poland, he wrote a "rule" for married couples, similar to the protocols that religious orders follow for their way of life. His suggestions were born out of his deep friendships with young married couples who he observed and who helped him see what married couples need to do to find true life within the married vocation. We heard about this book and were immediately intrigued, so we invited Theresa and Peter Martin to share with us more about their book, how it came to be, and about The Rule itself.  In this podcast, we talk about the challenges of married life and how the Church can help us live a life of grace, the role of children in this quest of holiness, and what a life of prayer looks like in the home.  Most importantly, we talk about community and how essential it is for families to support each other in their common life. Listen in and see how you can join in this movement of married couples living the Rule outlined by St. John Paul II.   

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Family, all in this together.

0:08.2

Family, we're taking a chance.

0:10.8

Family, like birds of a feather.

0:13.2

Family, you got my shoes and dance.

0:15.4

Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernin.

0:17.4

We have 10 kids and grandkids too, and we are here for every parent. Because we are on a

0:22.2

mission to empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation.

0:28.6

Family, we're taking a chance. Welcome to the program. We're so glad you joined us today.

0:37.2

And at least when we're recording this and releasing this, the summers slipped through our fingers. We're in August already. Yep. Yep. I remember my mom saying once. She was just like June. You feel like you're full of hope and things are getting started. July is long. And then pretty much you get to August and summer's done. What happened?

0:54.6

School, back to school stuff has been in the aisles for a couple weeks now.

0:59.8

Yeah.

1:00.4

I don't know what happened.

1:02.0

And it's funny because last summer we did a whole bunch, I was just a whole bunch,

1:06.8

but it did a handful of messy family events, right?

1:09.6

You know, which I said, let's not do that this year.

1:13.6

Let's just have a family summer a little lower.

1:15.6

This year, we just stayed home.

1:17.6

Lower keys.

1:18.9

All kinds of people came to us.

1:21.0

And it's wonderful.

1:22.6

It really is, you know.

1:24.0

For those who've listened to us before, hospitality is part of our values.

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