MP 102: The Spiritual Life of Children
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 19:14
Most parents realize that young children are not little adults and they have particular needs for their physical and mental well-being. We must realize that they have particular needs for their spiritual well-being as well. Parents need to learn how to tend the seed of their child's faith life and that starts with acknowledging the differences, and realizing that in many ways, the child is closer to God than we are! The beautiful thing about parenting is that as we nurture our child's faith, we will grow closer to God ourselves. We must learn from the child how to have a "child-like" faith as Jesus taught in the gospels. Listen in as we explain how the child's faith is different than ours and how we can nurture their faith in appropriate ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:23.5 | I just love that intro. |
| 0:26.2 | It is such a great beginning to the show. |
| 0:27.9 | Having Jack and Claire there introducing us. |
| 0:30.0 | It's going to take us a while to get you to it. |
| 0:31.7 | Yes. |
| 0:33.2 | So it is great to have you back if you've been listening for a while |
| 0:37.0 | or welcome to the show, |
| 0:38.2 | if this is new for you. |
| 0:39.6 | Yeah, we've had a couple events in the past two months. |
| 0:42.2 | And so we hope that we have new listeners from those events. |
| 0:45.7 | And so hello to all of those people who saw us at St. Vincent's or in Newtown, Connecticut, |
| 0:50.6 | or in Fredericksburg, Virginia. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | It was actually really fun to go out and visit with some listeners and meet some new people |
| 0:59.0 | and just parents across the country as we travel around a little bit more. |
| 1:04.1 | And in the new year, we'll talk about some of the places we've been invited to be for 2019. |
| 1:10.6 | Very excited about a number of the events we've got coming up. |
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