MP 022: Dealing with Loss
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
"Why did God make you? God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven." - Baltimore Catechism
Dealing with the loss of life is difficult for adults and for children. Our generation is more poorly equipped than the ones that came before us to deal with this issue, because we are repeatedly told that we are in total control of our own lives. This is simply not true. As Catholics, we have the great gift of our faith to form our hearts and inform our minds, so we can embrace the suffering that death brings. In this podcast, we share our own stories of loss and give some ideas for talking with your children about this issue. This podcast ends with a special song written by a mother who suffered the loss of her child, and God's response to her.
Show Notes:
- Cornerstone of Hope grief support. A great resource for those suffering from loss
- Story of our nephew Joshua Michael at my sister Regina Doman's site
- 20 Things you can do for Those Who Are Grieving
- Interested in Alicia's CD or music? Visit Alicia Hernon.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting. I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.0 | And welcome to messy parenting because this is a conversation, a Catholic conversation about marriage and family. |
| 0:15.0 | We don't put ourselves out there as experts, but rather we're sharing some insights from our ups and downs and our successes |
| 0:22.4 | and failures over the last 21 years of marriage. |
| 0:26.2 | We have 10 kids ranging from 2 to in a couple days. |
| 0:31.7 | 20. |
| 0:33.0 | And today we're going to talk about a kind of a more difficult topic dealing with loss or talking to our kids about death and dying and heaven just on all different levels. |
| 0:47.1 | You know, so anyway, so before we get into that, we thought we would, Mike, why don't you pray? |
| 0:53.4 | Okay. |
| 0:56.0 | In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, |
| 1:03.3 | amen. Lord Jesus, you are the Lord of life. You are the Lord of our lives. You are the Lord of our families. Be with us now in this hour, wherever we might be and with all of our loved ones. |
| 1:10.2 | Help us, Lord, to see your truth, your light, |
| 1:13.8 | and your hope, even in those dark and challenging moments that we experience. |
| 1:19.7 | Lord, be with a person listening to this who is in the greatest need of your mercy. |
| 1:24.4 | Be with them in comfort and console and strengthen them. |
| 1:29.9 | We ask all this in your name, amen. |
| 1:30.8 | Amen. |
| 1:32.2 | Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. |
| 1:36.9 | So dealing with loss, it's very, you know, obviously a very serious topic. |
| 1:43.6 | But we, and I think in our modern age, we don't deal with death very well. |
| 1:44.2 | That's right. And that really, I mean, like so many things in our modern age, we don't deal with death very well. That's right. |
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