MP 068: What does it take to get married

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Kids & Family

4.9 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

"More than ever necessary in our times is preparation of young people for marriage and family life."
– St. John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio

Preparing for a wedding can be a whirl of appointments, deposits, planning, decision-making, "Pintresting," and, sometimes, drama. But the wedding is just a day: marriage is a lifetime. Preparing for marriage is a very serious and important task for any couple. Marriage is naturally fraught with difficulties, and that's especially true in our culture, today. There is little support for faithful marriage, and many of us come from families who have given us poor examples of what a healthy marriage should look like. In this podcast, we list some topics that couples really need to discuss as well as some of our own insights on how to renew the sacrament of marriage in our Church.

Show Notes: some resources we mentioned

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0:00.0	Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family.
0:06.8	I'm Mike Hernan.
0:07.4	I'm Alicia Hernan.
0:08.5	And we have been doing this podcast for a little over two years now, I guess.
0:13.4	That's right.
0:14.0	And we are parents of 10 children.
0:16.4	And our big qualifications is that we have no qualifications.
0:21.7	Well, we've got a bunch of kids.
0:22.9	We've been married for 23 years.
0:24.6	And I don't know if that's qualifications.
0:26.0	It means that we survived.
0:27.2	Right.
0:27.4	Exactly.
0:27.9	We're survivors.
0:28.6	Not something we would put on a resume, I guess.
0:30.7	It's great for a bumper sticker, though, maybe.
0:32.4	Yeah.
0:32.8	Yeah.
0:33.2	So we just are here to share with you some of our ideas and experiences.
0:46.7	And we're actually heading into a new phase of our parenting right now because our son, our oldest son, just got engaged last month.
0:47.7	That's pretty crazy.
0:48.7	It is.
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