MP 063: Fr. Mike Scanlan, our spiritual father
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
"Father Mike Scanlan was a priest of the New Evangelization before there was a New Evangelization."
~ George Weigel
Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, who died on January 7, 2017, the week before this podcast, impacted many lives with the saving message of Jesus Christ. He was a friar, priest, preacher, teacher, healer, and university president, but to us, he was a spiritual father. In this podcast, we take some time to reflect on the lessons that we have learned from this man that we would like to share and continue to make real in our lives. We know you will benefit from hearing about this great man because he taught us both how to love Jesus in a deep, real, intimate way. We hope we can honor his legacy by continuing to proclaim the Gospel in the best way we know how -- by sharing these stories with you. The debt we owe him is beyond all measure. Thank You, Jesus, for this gift, this privilege, this humble friar who has changed our lives for all eternity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Messy Parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Alicia Hernan. And for those you who know this podcast, you know that we are trying to have a |
| 0:13.7 | conversation starter for you and your spouse. We are married for 23 years, just celebrated. |
| 0:19.9 | As of January 8th. |
| 0:21.3 | That's right. |
| 0:21.7 | Celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary. |
| 0:24.2 | And we have 10 children ranging from 4 to 21. |
| 0:28.7 | Getting ready to graduate from college. |
| 0:30.2 | Three in college right now. |
| 0:32.1 | Yes. |
| 0:32.9 | We are far from experts, but our hope is that we can share a little bit of the ups and downs of our life, |
| 0:39.2 | and they might be an encouragement, inspiration, or at least thought-provoking and start a conversation for you on marriage and family topics. |
| 0:47.7 | But today we do have a little bit of a different approach, a different topic that hits very close to home for us. |
| 0:56.4 | Somebody do we know who passed away? |
| 0:58.7 | Yes, the day before our anniversary, a priest, a Franciscan friar, who is very close to both Mike and I, Father Mike Scanlon, |
| 1:09.1 | we received word that he passed away. |
| 1:11.0 | And so I think we're always, I'm glad it's close to our anniversary because I think we'll |
| 1:14.2 | always remember that now and remember to ask for his intercession in a really special way. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, it's a gift. |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.4 | So we want to just give some reflections on our relationship with Father Mike. |
| 1:24.8 | And even if you didn't know who Father Mike Scanlon was, we thought that we could just share a couple lessons that we've learned from him. |
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