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Forming Families, Forming Saints with Fr. Carter Griffin

Familiaris Podcast for Catholic School Leaders

Visit familiaris-consulting.com to learn more about consulting, workshops, and speaking engagements. 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) Join the conversation * Leave a comment and subscribe at familiaris.substack.com * Become a paid subscriber at familiaris.substack.com/subscribe Paid subscribers gain access to monthly collaborative office hours. Office hours are hosted on Zoom and are not recorded. Pop in to ask a question, get feedback on what you’re working on with families, hear what other leaders are doing in their schools. Visit familiaris-consulting.com to learn more about consulting, workshops, and speaking engagements God bless! 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 To receive new Familiaris posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Familiaris at familiaris.substack.com/subscribe