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Fr. Carter Griffin, a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington and former seminary formator, joins Jaime Madison Vasquez to talk about his book Forming Families, Forming Saints (Emmaus Road). Fr. Griffin’s claim is that the four pillars structuring seminary formation—human, spiritual, intellectual, and apostolic—give parents a framework they can actually use at home. For Catholic school leaders, it offers a shared vocabulary for the work of forming parents as the first educators of their children.
What You’ll Learn:
How the four pillars of seminary formation translate into a structure parents can use, and why the fourth pillar is called apostolic in the book rather than pastoral
Why human formation is the pillar best formed early, and what that means for how schools counsel families with young children
What Fr. Griffin says to parents who arrive convinced that imperfect parenting means everything is lost
What a supernatural outlook is, why he gave seminarians a talk on it at the start of every year, and how it reframes ordinary family joys and struggles
Why families cannot hold the line on smartphones and social media alone, and the role parishes and schools play in making a shared standard possible
Resources:
Forming Families, Forming Saints by Fr. Carter Griffin (Emmaus Road, Amazon)
Pastores Dabos Vobis Pope St. John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation on the Formation of Priests in the Circumstances of the Present Day
Reclaimed: Win the War of Freedom, Self-Mastery, and Holy Purity by Fr. Carter Griffin (Scepter, Bookshop, Amazon)
Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest by Fr. Carter Griffin (Emmaus Road, Amazon)
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Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios
Chapters:
00:00: Meet Fr. Carter Griffin and Forming Families, Forming Saints
04:47: Formed by Family: Trust, Sincerity, and a Thirst for Answers
08:05: For Parents Who Feel They Have Already Failed
10:15: Four Pillars, Twenty Chapters
14:17: Why Families Have to Build Their Own Scaffolding
17:53: Human Formation: The Ground the Crucifix Stands In
23:17: Spiritual Formation: Baptismal Grace and a Supernatural Outlook
29:02: Intellectual Formation: Wisdom, Humility, and Beauty
38:06: Apostolic Formation: Getting Outside Yourself
45:52: Forming Priests to Support Families
52:57: Meeting Parents in a Moment of Crisis
57:52: Why St. Joseph
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