MP 073: Reaching Out: Evangelizing as a Family
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
"The future of evangelization depends in great part on the Church of the home."
~ St. John Paul the Great
Every Catholic is called to evangelize. No matter where you are in life, we are to spreading the gospel of Christ in all we do. Does that mean that we need to carry a bible in the diaper bag and preach on the street? Not necessarily (though a bible in your diaper bag is a good idea!), the first step in evangelization is to love. When we evangelize as a family, that means that we first love, serve, and preach the gospel to our own children as we create a home in which others can come to be served and cared for. Your family can be a witness to Christ as you show how to love as Jesus loved. Thank you to Sean and Aine Ascough of Ireland for sponsoring this podcast!
Show Notes: some resources we mentioned in this episode:
- Our podcast on Evangelizing your Kids
- Our podcast on Passing on the Faith
- Our podcast on Scripture and the Family
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.4 | And we are not experts. |
| 0:12.3 | If you've listened to our podcast before, we just have 10 kids and we're having fun behind a microphone. |
| 0:16.7 | Again, we really don't know what we're doing. |
| 0:18.5 | That's right. |
| 0:18.9 | But we're figuring out and having some fun along the way. |
| 0:21.8 | Now, we'd just like to share with you some of don't know what we're doing. That's right, but we're figuring out and having some fun along the way. Now, but we just like to share with you some of our advice of what we have learned through raising our children and just living a life within the Catholic Church. |
| 0:29.5 | And we have a sponsor this week for our podcast, and we're going to talk about evangelizing your family. |
| 0:36.3 | As a family. Right. Evangelizing. Sorry, evangelizing your family. And actually. As a family. |
| 0:38.5 | Right. Evangelizing. |
| 0:39.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:39.5 | Evangelizing as a family. |
| 0:41.5 | But we do want to tell you about this really cool thing. |
| 0:43.5 | All right. |
| 0:43.7 | So I'm an Irish American. |
| 0:46.5 | We know you guys think that we're cool already, but this is just going to increase our |
| 0:50.2 | coolness. |
| 0:50.9 | I don't know if they think we're cool, but they think we're interesting. |
| 0:53.6 | Okay. our coolness. I don't know if they think we're cool, but they think we're interesting. Okay, there you go. |
| 0:54.3 | Interesting. |
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