Epiphany – December 23, 2024

Dr. Marcus Peter talks about these last few days of Advent and helps us prepare for Christmas. Fr. Carter Griffin talks about his book “Forming Families Forming  Saints“.

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Dr. Marcus Peter talks about these last few days of Advent and helps us prepare for Christmas.

Dr. Marcus Peter, Director of Theology at Ave Maria Radio. Host of Ave Maria in the Afternoon and Unveiling the Covenants.

Fr. Carter Griffin talks about his book “Forming Families Forming  Saints”.

Father Carter Griffin is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC.  Raised Presbyterian, he converted to Catholicism while attending Princeton University.  After graduating in 1994, he served for four years as a line officer in the United States Navy prior to entering the seminary.  He attended Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland for two years of philosophy followed by the North American College in Rome for five years of theology.  Father Griffin was ordained to the priesthood in 2004 and served as priest-secretary for three years before beginning doctoral studies in Rome in 2008.  After completing his doctorate and serving as the parochial vicar of St. Peter’s parish on Capitol Hill, in 2011 he was appointed Director of Priest Vocations for the Archdiocese of Washington and Vice-Rector of St. John Paul II Seminary, where he now serves as Rector. He is the author of Why Celibacy: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest, published in 2019 by Emmaus Road. His most recent book is Forming Families Forming Saint, published in 2024 by Emmaus Road.

Buy “Forming Families Forming Saints” here: Forming Families Forming Saints