Adult Formation

Ascension provides accessible and engaging video content on a variety of Catholic topics, designed to help you learn, grow, and live your faith more intentionally.

FORMED features educational series, sacramental studies, films on the saints, and children’s content designed to help you go deeper in your faith. Check with your parish to see if a free subscription is available.

Word on Fire offers articles, videos, and series to support your faith life and deepen your understanding of Catholicism.

Catholic Answers – Do you have faith-related questions? Catholic Answers provides clear explanations of Church teaching through articles, videos, podcasts, and expert Q&A. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can submit a question to their team.

USCCB – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers a wide range of materials including daily readings, prayers, faith education, liturgical guidelines, and more.

Vatican – The Holy See’s official website provides access to ecumenical documents, canon law, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Scripture, historical archives, and the latest Vatican news.

Dynamic Catholic: Dynamic Catholic offers practical parish resources to help build up parish communities.

Hallow: Hallow partners with parishes to offer parishioners free trial access to its prayer and meditation app, featuring reflections, guided prayer experiences, and content from well-known Catholics.

The Rescue Project: The Rescue Project seeks to proclaim the gospel in a compelling and attractive way over eight weeks in a small group format. This experience has an approach that combines beauty, authentic humanity, and accompaniment.

Symbolon: The Faith of the Church: A video series including 16 episodes of 30 minutes exploring the core teachings of the church featuring theologians from the Augustine Institute. An engaging series to show case the vibrancy of the Catholic Church and aims to draw viewers to a deeper encounter with Christ.

The Search: A series to discover the deepest questions of the human heart, how we can discover Christ on this journey we call life.

Videos

• How to Do Lectio Divina: Learn how to deeper your prayer life by learning how to pray with scripture using 4 basic steps and learn to listen to God’s voice through his inspired word.
• Feeling Nothing Spiritual (Spiritual Apathy): Fr. Mike talks about why spiritual indifference happens & what you can do to reignite your desire for Christ.
• How to trust God when it’s hard?: Fr. Malachy shares how to trust God through the suffering, trials, an unanswered prayers.
• How to make a good confession: Explores the idea of daily conversion and the need for God’s mercy. This short video gives practical advice on how to approach the sacrament of confession.
• How Prayer Changes us? Fr. Mike Schmitz and Fr. Monsignor Shea sit down to discuss how prayer changes us, they explore steps of how to build a prayer life.
• The Bible in 10 minutes: Provides a summary of the entire bible. Scripture is the inspired word of God, God’s plan for our salvation.

Articles

• What to do during adoration? Ever find yourself getting distracted during times of prayer. This is a practical guide of what you can do during adoration and shares the importance of adoration.
• How to Pray the Daily Examen? The Daily Examen is a fruitful prayer that helps us recognize the ways God is active in our lives. This article walks step by step through how to pray the Examen and explores the spiritual benefits of this practice.
• How to become Catholic? The Catholic Answers team explores the question “Why Be Catholic?” and offers clear guidance on the steps toward full communion with the Church
• The Daily Battle to Seek God’s Will Over Our Own: Do you desire to walk the path of holiness? How can you come to know God’s will? This article offers practical guidance on discerning God’s will, drawing insight from the Diary of St. Faustina and offering wisdom for each step along the way.
• Finding Hope in a Broken World: This article aims to answer the question of where hope is when our world seems to be so broken.
• How to Pray/Types of Prayer: The USCCB offers a collection of prayers and walks step by step how to pray each devotion. Resources include but are not limited to Eucharistic devotions, how to pray the rosary, prayers for catholic living, and how to pray Lectio Divina. 

Bible in a Year: St. Jermone says that “Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ” Fr. Mike Schmitz reads through the entire Bible in 365 days and provides some insight each day. Listen to see how God may be speaking to you through his inspired word.

Poco a Poco Podcast: An engaging podcast from priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal where they discuss authentic faith in today’s world through sharing stories and wisdom from their experiences. It all comes down to taking one little step with a deeper encounter with the Lord.

Catechism in a Year: The Catehcism is a beautiful way to discovery the depth and the beauty of the Church’s teaching and wisdom.

Real Life Catholic: Chris Stefanick is a Catholic speaker & author who shares real life experiences and shares how the faith will bring us for the joy that we long for.

Abiding Together: A podcast for women to discover their passion and purpose on this journey with Jesus.

Ask Fr. Josh is a platform where he helps individuals navigate tricky questions. He addresses a variety of topics from moral dilemmas to relationship advice.

Introduction to a Devout Life by Francis De Sales: A practical spiritual guide that helps you reflect that holiness is attainable for everyone. The book invites you into personal reflection and mediation to become the best-version of yourself.

Interior Freedom by Fr. Jaque Philipe: Through the lens of the three theological virtues faith, hope, and love; Fr. Jaque Philipe explores how an induvial can achieve true freedom.

Broken & Blessed by Fr. Josh Johnson: Fr. Josh Johnson tackles the harsh realities facing the Catholic Church in the 21st century.

Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly: Catholicism is not just a set of rules, it is a way to personal transformation. This book challenges Catholics to re-examine their faith and live it to the fullest, addresses common myths, and provides a vision for the Church to thrive by focusing on spiritual hunger and personal holiness.

Be Healed by Dr. Bob Schuchts: The Lord desires us to be whole. This book shares personal testimony and practical steps for finding physical, spiritual, and mental healing.

The Lamb’s Super by Scott Hahn: This book explores the connection between the Book of Revelation and the Catholic Mass, highlighting how our participation in the liturgy offers a true foretaste of Heaven.