How to Advent

Prepare Your Heart This Advent 

Discover the beauty of Advent traditions and enter into this season of hope and anticipation.

Episodes

Ep. 1: What is Advent, Anyway?

Learn why Advent is a season of longing and hope.
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Ep. 2: Catholic Guide to the Advent Wreath

Explore the meaning behind the Advent wreath and its symbolism.

Ep. 3: The Jesse Tree Explained

Discover this beautiful tradition that walks through salvation history.

Ep. 4: There’s More to Your Nativity Scene

Reflect on the incarnational meaning of the Nativity.
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Discussion Guide

Download our free guide to help you and your family celebrate Advent with purpose.

A robust spiritual life indicates a strong relationship with God because, without Christ, we can do nothing. We should desire to have a strong spiritual life and encourage others to grow in their own spiritual lives.

Formed has an array of resources for parish leaders. These resources will jump-start the spiritual life of you and your parishioners so that they may abide more abundantly in the life of Christ.

Challenges of Living the Catholic Faith

In the world we live in, it is difficult to live out our identity as Catholics. Living the Catholic life out as a teen, living it out in relationship, living it out in discerning a career or a vocation, and living it out in marriage is bound to cause questions.

See the resources and suggestions below for how to have these conversations and encounter these difficult topics.
Resources for Addressing Difficult Topics

The Catholic Parent

Do you ever feel like it’s almost impossible to raise holy kids who love God (and sit still in Mass!) in our modern world? You’re not alone. This six-episode series features real Catholic families like yours sharing their daily struggles and victories. Created by the Augustine Institute and Catholic Sprouts, The Catholic Parent aims to encourage you as a mom or dad as you embrace your God-given role to form your family in the richness of the Catholic faith.

​Watch the series with your spouse, with friends, on your own, or as part of a small group!

​Awakening

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​A Crossroads in Time Book by Claudia McAdamIn

​this work of Biblical historical fiction, Ronni is a 21st-century American teenage girl who has lost her faith following the deaths of her father and brother, both of whom died saving the life of someone she doesn’t deem worthy. She can’t understand the concept of sacrifice—even Jesus’s death on the cross. Then one day, she wakes up 5,000 miles away from home...2,000 years in the past. How she got here, she doesn’t know. But she’s in Jerusalem, the week of the crucifixion of Jesus. She has three days to try to stop his death. The question is, can she do it? Should she? This young adult novel is appropriate for readers from middle-school through adult.

Age Range: 8 and up
Littlest Saints features the lives of the saints as told by kids. In each episode, a young child dons a habit, a cassock, a uniform, anything and everything, and acts out a different heavenly hero’s story, full of drama, comedy, and everything in between.
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