MP 093: Leisure, Life, and Games We Love
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
"...the ability to be "at leisure" is one of the basic powers of the human soul."
- Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture
How many of us really appreciate what it mean to enjoy leisure in our lives? Life can't be just about work, and simply "having fun" doesn't capture what we really need to be rejuvenated in our lives. We need to allow ourselves to just "be" and we need to also create that culture within our family. Taking time for reading, creating, or playing games is one of the ways we can have a foretaste of heaven. In this podcast we discuss this topic, but we also give a list of recommended games for different age groups and games that the whole family can play, no matter what the age!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Messy Parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.0 | And it is the summertime. |
| 0:11.0 | It is. |
| 0:12.0 | At least for us, you know, kind of north of the equator, right? |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.0 | And all those who are listening, they know that this is the summertime because we've only been doing one podcast a month. |
| 0:20.0 | And if you listen to us for any duration, you know that in the summer, your life and |
| 0:25.3 | ours becomes a little bit. |
| 0:27.7 | Because we're feeling. |
| 0:28.9 | I don't know what it is. |
| 0:29.4 | Diffused? |
| 0:29.5 | We're out there. |
| 0:31.0 | Vacations, kids schedules, life. |
| 0:33.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:34.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:34.8 | And as much as we think, oh, we'll just be able to be as disciplined as we are during the school year. No, no, we're actually not. |
| 0:43.7 | And also, too, this year particularly, as we mentioned in the last podcast, we are launching this into a full-time ministry. |
| 0:51.1 | So that's actually been very consuming. |
| 0:55.2 | Awesome. |
| 0:55.8 | Awesome. So exciting. |
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