Fr. Peter Williams joins WCAT Radio Show Host, Dr. Mary Anne Urlakis, on Episode 25 of “Vows, Vocations, and Promises: Discerning the Call of Love,” to discuss his chapter, entitled “Affective Maturity: Spiritual Tools for the Interior Life,” in the new book edited by Bishop Felipe Estevez and Bishop Andrew Cozzens entitled: Spiritual Husbands- Spiritual Fathers: Priestly Formation for the 21st Century.

Fr. Peter Williams was ordained in 2004 and has served as the Pastor of St. Ambrose of Woodbury Catholic Parish in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for eight years. Fr. Peter Williams earned his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in the New Evangelization from Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit in 2018. In addition to his pastoral work, Fr. Peter has shared his manifold priestly gifts through roles in seminary and priestly formation in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, including appointments as the Director of Vocations, Director of Ongoing Clergy Formation, Vice Rector for St. Paul Seminary, and as a formator at St. John Vianney College Seminary. Fr. Peter has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Spiritual Direction Program of the Institute for Priestly Formation and serves as a spiritual director for his brother priests.

In this interview, Fr. Williams relates his personal vocational journey and shares insights regarding a paradigm for the interior life necessary for effective evangelization. In this segment, Fr. Peter Williams explores the call to the New Evangelization- foreshadowed by Pope St. Paul the VI and heralded by Pope St. John Paul II. He discusses the universal call of the baptized to live integral lives of holiness and proposes concrete tools for developing an inner life requisite for effectively living the New Evangelization. Exploring the work of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in his catechesis “The Way to True Happiness,” Fr. Peter Williams elucidates how cultivating the interior dispositions of spiritual poverty, suffering, and silence serve to foster a strong inner foundation from which the New Evangelization can best spring forth.

Fr. Peter Williams’ chapter, “Affective Maturity: Spiritual Tools for the Interior Life,” is published in Spiritual Husbands- Spiritual Fathers: Priestly Formation for the 21st Century, edited by Bishop Felipe Estevez and Bishop Andrew Cozzens, published by Holy Apostles College and Seminary’s En Route Books and Media, which is available at: https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/spiritualhusbands/.