MP 047: Building Community
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
"Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy – in fact, the opposite."
~ Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche
Relationships are a complicated thing, but somehow we can't live without them. Just as it is not good for a man to be alone, it is also not good for a family to be alone. We are created to live in community. How do we do this when our lifestyles tend to isolation? How do you find community with people who share your values? How do you create community where there is none? In this podcast, we share some experiences and ideas on how to form meaningful relationships with other people, and why this is vital to the health of Catholic families.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Alicia Hernan. And sorry for a little hiatus here as we attended to our family life. |
| 0:14.3 | Which has been insane. Right. And awesomely fun and insane. |
| 0:19.9 | Nothing bad, thank God. |
| 0:21.8 | That's right. |
| 0:22.2 | That's right. |
| 0:22.6 | You know, and for those of you listen in, I don't need to tell you what this podcast is about |
| 0:25.7 | because why the heck would you be listening if you didn't know this is a podcast about parenting? |
| 0:28.9 | We've got 10 kids and a lot of crazy things going on in our life. |
| 0:32.6 | Yep. |
| 0:32.9 | And we've been married for 20 years. |
| 0:35.0 | Our kids range from 3 to 20. |
| 0:38.6 | We have two in college and dealing with our daughter. |
| 0:41.6 | One daughter is going to be getting her permit any day now. |
| 0:44.1 | So we are getting ready to send another kid off to college and teaching kids how to drive and two kids in a play. |
| 0:52.0 | Three kids in two different plays. |
| 0:54.4 | It's insane. |
| 0:56.3 | Two daughters traveling. |
| 0:58.5 | Yep. |
| 0:59.2 | And we had mission trips and everything else in there. |
| 1:01.5 | And then we had, you know, the High Holy Day, St. Patrick's Day. |
| 1:06.3 | I thought you all knew that, right? |
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