MP 036: Holidays with In-laws and Out-laws
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
– Garrison Keillor
Thanksgiving and Christmas are times of great joy and celebration, but can also be times of unprecedented stress and conflict. Buying gifts, traveling to see extended family, and keeping traditions are all important aspects of the holidays. How do Catholic families enjoy this while also keeping Christ as the center of our holidays? How do we love our families while we are striving to keep the peace and make everything perfect for our kids? Listen in as we discuss these challenges and the ways that we have dealt with them in our household.
Show Notes: Shows we referenced and ideas for Advent and Christmas
- Our podcast on Visiting Family
- 9 Things to do to make a more meaningful Advent
- Dynamic Catholic's best Advent ever
"The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it."
- John 1:5
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are a married couple, married for 21 years, and we have 10 children. |
| 0:14.8 | We are far from experts, but we've learned a little bit from the ups and the downs of our marriage. |
| 0:19.6 | And just sharing some thoughts |
| 0:20.9 | with you. Hopefully this will spark a conversation for you and your spouse. And because a lot of |
| 0:25.9 | these things are things that we've talked about a lot throughout the years. And we just thought |
| 0:30.3 | that, you know, sharing the things that are topics of discussion and conclusions that we've |
| 0:35.1 | come to and experiences we've had will help you to be |
| 0:38.2 | inspired to talk with your spouse. That's right. And right now we're coming up on the holidays, |
| 0:43.2 | right? And I thought it was a very timely topic for us. But before that, I want to start with |
| 0:49.5 | a prayer. Sure. In the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit, amen. |
| 0:53.3 | Amen. |
| 0:59.1 | Lord, as we prepare our hearts for great celebrations of Thanksgiving and Christmas, |
| 1:04.0 | we just ask that you fill our hearts and our minds with your thoughts, Lord, |
| 1:09.0 | help guide us and just draw our eyes to you and to the things of heaven, |
| 1:10.6 | not just the things of earth. |
| 1:13.5 | We ask this through Christ our Lord. |
| 1:14.7 | Amen. |
| 1:21.7 | Well, it's funny because I, we have a show that I do with the, with Francis University that's on EWTN and was about, you know, Christmas. |
| 1:25.8 | And, but how we very quickly in our culture pass right over, |
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