This Week on FORMED — (March 21, 2022)
Mentioned in this video:
Monday (March 21)
- The Chris Stefanick Show
- My Beloved Son: Meditations for Lent by Bishop Robert Barron
Tuesday (March 22)
- The Augustine Institute Show with Dr. Tim Gray, airing 7 pm EST
Wednesday (March 23)
- A Bible Study on the Sorrowful Mysteries: The Crowning with Thorns
Thursday (March 24)
- A Sign of Contradiction: Who Do You Say that I Am?
Friday (March 25) —The Feast of the Annunciation
- The Art of Living: Courage
- Sacred Art: The Annunciation
- A Bible Study on the Annunciation
- The Bible and the Virgin Mary: Episode 1: A Biblical Introduction to Mary
- Our Mother Mary
Saturday (March 26)
- A Place at the Table
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My Beloved Son: Meditations for Lent by Bishop Robert Barron
Bishop Robert Barron offers five sermons on the spiritual discipline we must cultivate in the Lenten season, a discipline centered on Christ. These meditations cover topics such as finding our identity in God, prayer as the key to mission, our thirst for God, how to end our alienation from God, a...
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Bible Study on the Sorrowful Mysteries: The Crowning with Thorns
Have you ever wanted to grow in your understanding and devotion to the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary? Join Dr. Ben Akers and professors from the Augustine Institute Graduate School as they walk through these Biblical mysteries and seek to grow in understanding and love for Christ through them...
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A Sign of Contradiction: Who Do You Say That I Am?
Taylor Kemp and Dr. Christopher Blum, Provost of the Graduate School of Theology, introduce a Lenten series preached by Cardinal Karol Wojtyla—later Pope John Paul II—compiled into a single volume and recently brought back into print.
This retreat walks listeners and viewers through major theme...
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The Art of Living: Courage (4 of 6)
Dr. Ben Akers welcomes Dr. Edward Sri to discuss his new book, The Art of Living:The Cardinal Virtues and the Freedom to Love, and the virtues generally. In these episodes, viewers will learn what a virtue is, how to grow in them, and how our ability to love is dependent on our pursuit of the vir...
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The Annunciation | Sacred Art
Dr. Ben Akers and Taylor Kemp sit down with different pieces of Sacred Art to discuss their theological meanings and how they can speak to us today. This week, they are looking at The Annunciation as depicted by Elizabeth Zelasko.
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A Bible Study on the Annunciation
Dr. Ben Akers, associate professor of theology at the Augustine Institute Graduate School, leads us through a brief reflection on the scene of the Annunciation in Luke 1:26-38. He engages the scripture verses line by line highlighting some of the key Old Testament passages evoked by the angel Gab...
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The Bible and the Virgin Mary: Episode 1: A Biblical Introduction to Mary
If ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ, as St. Jerome famously stated, then ignorance of Scripture is also ignorance of Mary. This is because "what the Catholic faith believes about Mary is based on what it believes about Christ, and what it teaches about Mary illumines in turn its fait...
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Our Mother Mary
Dr. Ben Akers sits down with Dr. Mark Miravalle, Saint John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, to discuss Mary, the Mother of God. What is Mariology? How does Mary serve as model for all the faithful? How can we relate to Mary today? What does it mean to say that...
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A Place at the Table
There are no African-American Saints formally recognized within the Catholic Church, but that could soon change. There are six incredible black men and women who are on the path to Canonization. The Catholic Church is starting to recognize their impact and may soon name any or all of them Saints....