MFP 288: Sisterhood - an interview with the Doman Women

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Parent, Podcast, Marriage, Religion & Spirituality, Catholic, Christianity, Kids & Family, Family

5 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Our parents made us sisters, but God made us friends.

Summary

One of the greatest blessings of Alicia’s life is that God gave her 9 brothers and sisters to laugh, play, fight, create, and pray with most of her life! This conversation is from a girls getaway weekend with the five Doman sisters. Now, because all the Doman siblings are practicing Catholics in good relationship with each other and their parents, people may put them in a category of “the perfect Catholic family”. But that is far from true. As you will hear, each one of these sisters has lived through tragedies and difficulties that were completely unexpected and not chosen by them at all. It is by God’s grace that each one of them has grown into the woman God is calling her to be and it is through that relationship with Christ, as well as the accident of birth, that we are able to have true sisterhood together. Listen in as we talk about God’s faithfulness through the difficulties of life and how true sisterhood with those in your family and friends are essential to our survival.

Key Takeaways

Life is not always easy, but God is near
We can learn from those who God gives us, even when they are different from us. Don’t get frustrated by differences, embrace them!
When we are joined together by common faith in Christ, we can develop true friendships

Couple Discussion Questions

What relationships can we invest more in to develop sisterhood and brotherhood?
Are we happy with our relationships with our siblings? Why or why not? What can we change about this?
How does sharing values with others change us?

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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.
0:13.3	Family, get off 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.
0:28.0	Family, we're taking a chance. Thanks for joining us on today's podcast. And we actually
0:36.3	have something very unique and different today. Yes. Yeah. Well,
0:40.0	kind of unique. Yeah. I mean, I don't think we've ever done anything like this before on any other
0:44.4	podcast. Which would make it unique, I think. I guess that does make it. That's definition of unique.
0:48.7	So I did a sister's weekend with my sisters a couple months ago. And while we were there,
0:55.5	sisters weekend. Yes, yes. Sisters with my sisters. Uh, girls weekend with my sister. So that
1:01.4	that's better. Makes more sense. Anyway, I have, um, four sisters. I have five brothers, four
1:07.2	sisters. And so the five girls, uh, range for our oldest, oldest girl to the youngest.
1:15.1	So our number, the first domen and the last domain are both girls. So there's the biggest span of
1:19.8	girls in the family. And there's 21 years between my oldest and youngest sister. Pretty, pretty
1:24.3	impressive. So what that means is that we have a range of
1:28.2	experiences. And that means that there was a lot of red wine being shared. So much, so much. And
1:34.3	nobody was pregnant at the time too. So when we did this, our girls weekend and which is,
1:40.0	this is the third time, it's the second, second, third time we've done it. Anyway, we've recorded a podcast because I was like, because I was, I was like,
1:46.7	hey, this is what I do.
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