15 Reasons to go to SEEK Conference 2015

SEEK Conference is just around the corner! Here’s 15 reasons why you can’t miss it:

1. Spend 5 days with some of your best friends! Unfortunately I can’t guarantee that a pope will show up…

2. SEEK the truth

3. Hear some of the best speakers in the Church. So much so that you’ll have withdrawals..

4. Encounter Jesus in a new and profound way

5. Make new friends for life

6. Get some of your deepest questions answered by the experts. Fr. Robert Spitzer’s got science covered, Lisa Cotter has girls covered. I still haven’t decided which topic is more complicated.

Lisa Cotter: Why do Women do that? Understanding What Chick Flicks and Love Songs Have to do with Chastity

7. Meet other college students from all over the country, and even the world!

8. Hang out with 10,000 other young people. Some have more… personality… than others

9. Open your life to new opportunities and directions

10. Stay up late every night. People will be playing ninja, signs, what are the odds, and all other sorts of wacky games late into the night… and it’s epic!

11. There is 24/7 adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

12. Matt Maher will be there

13. Show off your school pride. Do you know your school’s fight song? You’ll probably want to before you go, and wear lots of school colors.

14. Nashville. I hear there’s a music scene?

 15. Jim Gaffigan.

Come SEEK with me. We’re all on this journey of life together.

This was actually my blog post immediately after SEEK 2013… so check out what I thought!

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A Hour With Jesus

I spent an hour with Jesus today.

He didn’t speak to me, He didn’t touch me, but He was there with me and the others in the perpetual adoration chapel.

Unfortunately, it’s something that many Catholics take for granted, and many don’t even realize. In addition, there are many of my brothers and sisters in Christ who do not believe in the real presence. Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist at the last supper:

“This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.” – Luke 22:19

“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” – Matthew 26:28

These words make more sense when we look back on the Bread of Life Discourse:

“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.” – John 6:53-56

Here’s what St. Paul had to say to the Corinthians:

“The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.” – 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

Jesus goes to my church, does He go to yours?

Catholics Come Home – The Eucharist