MP 072: Chastity- its not just for teenagers
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
"The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life."
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
Chastity is a fruit of the Holy Spirit and a virtue that frees us to love others for who they are, not for what they do for us. The foundation of chastity should be intentionally laid when our children are young, so this virtue can fully flower in their teen years and beyond. This podcast isn't a "chastity talk": it's fifty minutes of practical advice on what this virtue looks like when lived out in a family of all different ages and stages of development. Thank you to the Piwnicki family from St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Crystal Lake, IL for sponsoring this podcast!
Show Notes:
- Our podcast on the importance of Friendship for your Kids
- Our podcast on Preparing Your Tween and Yourself for Adolescence
- Our podcast on the Messy Parenting Guide to Dating
- Book: Raising Pure Teens by Jason Evert and Chris Stefanick
- Book: Theology of His/Her Body by Jason Evert
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.4 | And welcome to the summer. |
| 0:11.3 | That's right. |
| 0:11.9 | That's right. |
| 0:12.4 | This is a warm and sunny days here in Ohio and the pools out and the sunburns have come out on our children. |
| 0:22.3 | That's right. We are an Irish family. So we're not as careful as we probably should have been with the |
| 0:28.2 | shirts and the sunscreen and we have several sunburns. But you know what? The kids are outside |
| 0:34.3 | and it's good. We're going to do better. We'll do better next time. |
| 0:37.9 | That's right. |
| 0:38.9 | And it'll come out in cancer when they're like 40 years old. |
| 0:41.8 | Hopefully not. |
| 0:42.6 | But anyway, today we have a podcast sponsor, the Puecki family from Crystal Lake, Illinois. |
| 0:50.5 | They go to St. Thomas, the Apostle Church, and they asked us to talk about teaching our kids chastity at every age. |
| 0:58.7 | I shouldn't say in every age because then it sounds like throughout the ages. |
| 1:02.3 | We're not doing a historical reference point on chastity. |
| 1:04.3 | No, no, no, no, throughout different ages of development. |
| 1:06.7 | And we thought this was a great topic. |
| 1:08.6 | So thank you so much to the Puenicki family for helping us out and giving us this was a great topic. So thank you so much to the Puentecchi family for helping us out |
| 1:13.4 | and giving us this great topic and making their donation. |
| 1:18.0 | So let's go ahead and start with the prayer. |
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