A Father Helping to Form Families
A priest is before all else, a father. And a seminary rector is a father of fathers, a father par excellence, helping to form our future fathers. Thus, it stands to reason that the formation of families should teach us about good seminary formation—should provide lessons for how to form the men who become our future spiritual fathers. The converse is also true. The lessons born from the good formation of men in seminary can and should be able to provide fathers and mothers with lessons and aids in raising their children. It is of these lessons and their meaning for families that Fr. Carter Griffin writes so beautifully in his new book, Forming Families, Forming Saints.
