Young people told at SEEK they are ‘light of the world today’
Archbishop says crowd of 17,000 of mostly college students ‘a great sign of hope’
Published: January 8, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila described the 17,000 mostly college students attending SEEK2019 in Indianapolis as “a great sign of hope for the church, that the church is alive and well among young people.”
He celebrated Mass on Jan. 6 for the participants in the biennial conference sponsored by the Denver-based Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS). The group, founded in 1998, seeks to nurture the Catholic faith in college students. It currently has nearly 700 missionaries serving on 153 college campuses in 42 states and five international locations.
In his homily, Archbishop Aquila said he was briefly “playing hooky” from the retreat taking place for bishops in the U.S. at Mundelein Seminary at the University of St. Mary of the Lake near Chicago to celebrate the Mass in the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
This year’s SEEK gathering, Jan. 3-7, is the sixth such conference that Archbishop Aquila has attended.
“Certainly, you can see the deep faith in the young people,” he said in an interview after the liturgy. “What their encounter with Christ has brought about is palpable. When you give young people the truth of Christ and Christ as the light and the one who gives meaning to life, it
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