4. The Weight of a Meal

Written By Jon Marc & Teresa Grodi

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Middle Earth Mug: http://bit.ly/2UulwPV
JonMarc’s mug was an *awesome* Christmas gift from Teresa, purchased a Oscha Slings. Handmade, sustainably-produced Middle Earth gifts

Commit to praying before you eat. So simple. If you live in family life, learn and pray a meal prayer every meal.

Tack a sacramental habit onto your meal. Choose the meal you are most likely to eat together and add some sacramental aspect (ie, daily Gospel reading, each member of the family offers up a petition, daily read-aloud devotional book).

Download the Mass Impact LIT family guide and pick one dinner per week (we do Saturday) and do this fun “Discussion Night” with your family: https://massimpact.us/live-it-gathering-family-edition/

Quotes

G.K. Chesterton
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.” ― “What's Wrong with the World?”

JRR Tolkien
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.” — Thorin, “The Hobbit”

CS Lewis
“the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him...” ― “The Weight of Glory”

Scott Hahn
I would like to call your attention to something you've probably heard many, many times. It's taken from the Eucharistic Prayer # 1, the Roman Canon. “Father, accept this offering from your whole family." In the middle of the Mass, we are told what we are and we are told what we are doing and that is we are praising and loving and sacrificing and worshipping our Father as he gathers his family. — “Eucharist, Holy Meal”

Jon Marc & Teresa Grodi

Teresa is a member of the Body of Christ, a wife, and a mother of five. She was born, raised, and resides in the Diocese of Toledo, OH. Teresa received her B.A. and M.A. in History at Bowling Green State University, where she met her husband JonMarc. She has been involved in ministry in many capacities and currently organizes pilgrimages for Catholic Faith Journeys. Teresa and JonMarc love to take walks and to discuss faith, philosophy, culture, food, the Domestic Church, the Feminine Genius, and the C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy, among other things.

JonMarc is the Chief Operating Officer of the Coming Home Network International and has been interviewed on EWTN programs such as Life on the Rock and The Journey Home, as well as various radio programs. A graduate student of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, JonMarc resides in Perrysburg, OH, with his wife and five young children.  Some of his favorite topics for discussion & writing are the nature of religious faith, aesthetics, Catholic Social Teaching, the writings of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and various intersections of philosophy and theology in family life. You can connect with JonMarc via the Coming Home Network, on social media, or where he occasionally writes at www.RestatementOfTheObvious.com.

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