MP 067: Evangelizing Your Kids
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
"The future of evangelization depends in great part on the Church of the home [the family]."
- St. John Paul II
The deepest desire for many of us as parents is to pass on the faith to our children. According to many statistics, upwards of two-thirds of young people are leaving the faith. So it's obvious that most parents are facing an uphill battle in this area and must intentionally evangelize their children. What is the secret formula for success? What does it look like to be an evangelizing parent? In this podcast, we share the top five ways to evangelize your kids. Gain some insight, spark a conversation, and go deeper in the work of evangelization. Listen in and share your ideas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.9 | And this podcast, just to give you a little background, is intended on giving you a conversation starter for you and your spouse. |
| 0:17.2 | And we are far from experts, but we're just sharing some of the ups and downs and the insights |
| 0:21.8 | we've had over 23 years. 24 years of marriage. And yep, 24 years of marriage and 10 kids |
| 0:29.7 | ranging from 21 to 4 and getting older all the time, us and them. But we just wanted to share with you. |
| 0:39.0 | We are really excited about doing our podcast today because we have some exciting |
| 0:43.6 | news for everybody. |
| 0:45.9 | But it was causing us to reflect on our, this past couple months, we were traveling |
| 0:50.8 | with our family. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.5 | This show is called messy parenting, right? |
| 0:54.6 | For a reason. |
| 0:57.3 | And, you know, we, like we said, we have these 10 kids and we don't go to restaurants |
| 1:03.1 | as much as we would normally, and normal did in the past. |
| 1:08.9 | You know, just because there's a lot of them. |
| 1:10.3 | Or sometimes we'll take, like, just the older kids. |
| 1:12.1 | Sometimes I just can't stay and go, because the little guys, you know, it's just, it's just |
| 1:15.6 | hard. |
| 1:15.9 | It's not great for them, and it's frustrating. |
| 1:18.2 | I always feel like we leave a mess everywhere we go. |
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