Four of us from the Sioux City Diocese attended the Endow Conference this weekend in Denver. Not only is it an opportunity to learn about Endow, it's an opportunity to get spiritually renewed.
The weekend started with a Friday retreat with Fr. Scott Traynor from the Diocese of Sioux Falls. If you have an opportunity to meet Fr. Scott, do it!
Friday evening, Archbishop Gomez opened the conference as the keynote speaker. Saturday continued our path as we're Called To Be Saints. We studied Dorothy Day, whose cause is up for sainthood, St. Teresa of Avila and Edith Stein. There's much to learn about these saints, and we got off to a good start.
Our weekend ended with a wonderful supper Saturday evening. I'd emailed seminarians from our Diocese who are attended seminary at Denver. Three of them were able to join us that evening.
We were excited for the opportunity to meet the men who may be OUR priests some day. A good time was had by all, including the extra Endow Conference attendees from Houston, TX and Tyler, MN who came with us!
Pray for these men, the seminarians who weren't able to join us, the seminarians who are studying across the country and pray for the women who are discerning their own call to holiness.
Then become the type of person who can add fuel to the spiritual fire of these new priests - the type of person that when they meet you, they say, I can't wait to be a priest!
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