St. Louis, Mo., Jan 9, 2023 / 10:07 am
The SEEK conference, a major Catholic conference for students, adults, and clergy put on by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), will return to St. Louis in 2024 for the second year in a row, FOCUS announced late last week.
According to FOCUS’ estimate, nearly 19,000 people — students, adults, families, bishops, priests, religious sisters, and more — attended the five-day SEEK23 conference at the America’s Center Convention Complex in downtown St. Louis last week. The conference — now in its 25th year — included workshops, talks, and entertainment as well as daily Mass, confession, and eucharistic adoration.
The 2023 gathering was FOCUS’ first fully in-person national conference since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. FOCUS held a national conference in Indianapolis in 2019 and a smaller student leadership summit in Phoenix in the earliest days of 2020. Conferences for 2021 and 2022 were held online due to the pandemic.
More than 1,800 local St. Louisans joined the SEEK23 attendees at a special Wednesday evening eucharistic adoration session, held in the former stadium of the St. Louis Rams football team. That evening more than 500 priests heard more than 3,000 confessions in two hours, along with thousands more throughout the event, FOCUS said.
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