MP 080: Making Room for Jesus
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
"Seven days without prayer makes one weak."
The days between Thanksgiving and Christmas are full of many tasks, which are fun and beautiful, but also may take our eyes off of the One we need most at this time. Making room for prayer in our busy schedules isn't just something that is important during Advent, but is an essential part of parenting and living as a Catholic in this crazy world. In this podcast, we take some time to define WHY we should pray, HOW you can pray, and, most importantly, WHEN you can pray.
Why should we parents pray?
1. Out of justice, because God deserves your prayer
2. To gain inner peace and take time to slow down
3. To refocus on the meaning of life and remember what matters most
4. To receive grace and strength for your day
5. To seek His blessing, provision, and protection for your family
6. To listen to God and receive His wisdom for your life
7. To allow God to love you. Gaze upon Him and let the Lord gaze upon you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are excited to be here. |
| 0:12.0 | This is a fun and exciting day for us. |
| 0:15.2 | We just blew in from our Thanksgiving vacation, and we are determined to get in two podcasts a month. So we're like, |
| 0:22.2 | we must podcast. That's right. We love you guys. And so we're taking time to get this podcast |
| 0:29.1 | done. That's right. Our room is a mess right now. It looks like a clothes bomb exploded. But you |
| 0:34.1 | know what? That's okay. That's right. This is important. It's a priority. Well, and I know we announced this in our last podcast, but we did our first video series online began this past weekend for the Feast of Christ the King, the Solomity of Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe. |
| 0:52.1 | It was a lot of fun. |
| 0:53.4 | It was. |
| 0:57.2 | And, you know, if you're looking for some high-tech video, this isn't it? |
| 1:00.3 | We're going to get better every time, though, I think. |
| 1:02.1 | We're kind of already figured out a few things. |
| 1:11.1 | And, yeah, it was just really neat to get on there and just's responses and, you know, just realizing that it was live was a really neat thing as opposed to something being recorded. So anyway, so it was cool. |
| 1:15.8 | We had a great time doing it and I think that's what we're supposed to be doing. |
| 1:20.2 | That's right. And so, again, I think we've said this before, but in the survey, we found that |
| 1:25.2 | 80% of the people who took it said, as listeners, said that |
| 1:29.9 | the number one thing they want to hear more about is about renewing spirituality in the home, |
| 1:34.5 | about deepening our faith and our family. And Advent is an awesome time to do that. So we're |
| 1:40.1 | just ahead of Advent. So we started our Advent broadcast in advance of Advent to get us ready. |
| 1:48.2 | And I thought that actually fits a little bit with maybe a topic today as well. |
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