MP 037: The Courage to Correct
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother." - Matthew 18: 15
As married people, we each have a duty, a solemn obligation to help to get our spouse to heaven. Sometimes we help them by being a cross for them ☺, but sometimes we need to help our beloved by pointing out things in their lives that need to change in order for them to grow in virtue. Here, we're not talking about a difference in values – most of those are not moral issues – but correction regarding sinful patterns of behavior or vices that need to be rooted out. How do we do this? How do we know when to speak up and when to just pray or be silent? How do we get the courage needed to have this conversation with love?
"My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." - 2 Corinthians 12:9
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.7 | And this is a podcast dedicated for couples trying to grow in their ability to be parents |
| 0:16.7 | and to be spouses. |
| 0:18.1 | In their Catholic faith. |
| 0:19.1 | In their Catholic faith. |
| 0:20.0 | We are not experts, but we try to share some of the insights we've had over the years, |
| 0:24.8 | things we've learned from others, things we've learned from our mistakes and failures. |
| 0:28.7 | Yep. |
| 0:30.6 | But today we wanted to give you some tips and tricks on getting your spouse to do whatever you want. |
| 0:37.2 | Is that what we're doing? No, we're not doing that to do whatever you want. Is that, |
| 0:38.4 | is that what we're doing? |
| 0:38.8 | No, |
| 0:39.9 | we're not doing that one. |
| 0:40.1 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:40.4 | That's another, |
| 0:40.9 | that's in my mind, |
| 0:41.8 | what we're going to do later. |
| 0:44.5 | Um, |
| 0:44.5 | um, |
| 0:44.6 | future podcast. |
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