C&SI - Seek 2025 - You get what you ask for - 2 February 2025 (S05 E10)

So one of the things we try  to do on the podcast is bring you talks and reflections which we think might be of interest. And this week we bring you a talk by Fr Mike Smitz given at the SEEK conference held recently in Salt Lake City, Utah and Washington in the USA whose reflection was "You get what you ask for".

In part 1 we have our regular run through the liturgical odds and ends for the coming week including a small chat about today's feast day - The Presentation of the Lord a.k.a. Candlemas. 

Part 3 is our weekly reflection on the Sunday gospel which is from Luke's account of the presentation in the Temple and encounter with Simeon and Anna, representatives to the quiet faithful of Israel. 

Seek 2025 - You are what you ask for

The SEEK conferences are organised annually by by Fellowship of Catholic University Students in the USA and is said to be one of the largest regular gatherings of Catholics in the world. This years event was held between Salt Lake City in Utah and Washington DC from January 1 - 5 and had over 21,000 people in attendance including 46 bishops. 

Among the guest speakers was Fr Mike Schmitz, whose talk we feature on our podcast today entitled – ‘You get what you ask for’

Fr Smitz is an American Catholic priest, speaker, author, and podcaster. The Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries in the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, and is most notable for his social media presence, which mainly consist of his YouTube videos and The Bible in a Year podcast, both of which are produced by the Catholic publisher Ascension Press.

• CNA articles covering the conference here