MP 012: Passing on the Faith
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
"…the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have the right to enjoy, has a face and a name. It is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist." - Pope Benedict XVI
The only way our faith as Catholics makes any sense is when we see our lives as a journey to deepen our relationship with Jesus. If our lives aren't about Him, what is the point? In this podcast, Mike and Alicia interview Alicia's parents, John and Michele Doman, who are the parents of ten and grandparents to over forty young Catholics! Amazingly, and by God's grace, all of the Doman children are living lives as dynamic Catholics - married and in the priesthood. John and Michele discuss their own faith journey and how they guided their children into a relationship with Christ over the years. There is much wisdom in their words, as well as humor and honesty. What a wonderful resource to hear from a couple so in love with the Lord and with such great experience!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:11.6 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:13.0 | And we are a 21 years married couple with 10 kids from 2 to almost 20. And our intention with this podcast is to share some |
| 0:25.5 | conversations we've had over the years on topics that might be of interest to you. But we don't |
| 0:30.3 | claim to be experts. We're doing this partly out of coercion, but now it's actually kind of fun. |
| 0:35.3 | So we're enjoyed doing this. But today we're going to talk about, I think, a very interesting topic. |
| 0:41.1 | Well, we have a different format today because we decided to bring on some guests. |
| 0:45.9 | So we invited my parents, John and Michelle Domain. |
| 0:49.3 | They are the parents of 10 children. |
| 0:51.8 | And they live outside the Philadelphia area. |
| 0:54.0 | I've lived there my entire |
| 0:55.4 | life, and they're still there now. And we thought it would be fun to have them on because we're |
| 1:01.0 | going to talk about having a relationship with Jesus and passing that on to our children. How do we |
| 1:06.7 | help our children to keep the faith? And so my parents are in a very, I think, a unique situation |
| 1:12.5 | in that they've raised 10 kids. We're all out of the house now. Everyone's in their vocations. |
| 1:17.0 | Everyone's married. And I have one, my youngest brother is a priest in Denver. And all of us are |
| 1:23.2 | faithful Catholics who are in love with the Lord and raising our kids to know the Lord. |
| 1:29.1 | And I think that that's something that is, it's quite a task. |
| 1:32.9 | So we want to kind of pick their brains, if you will, about how did they do this and what |
| 1:37.1 | advice and wisdom can they give since they are pretty much done their parenting at this point, |
| 1:43.5 | but obviously still a great source of wisdom |
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