WORKSHOPS AT KENRICK
While the collegians began classes at SLU earlier in January, the Configuration men had a soft-open to their semester with a week of workshops! Coordinated by the Academic Office, these workshops offered an interactive learning environment broken up by stage-specific material that allow the men to practice hands-on skills that will be useful to them in personal, professional, and pastoral settings (all without assigning any homework!). With both internal and external presenters, the men were able to receive training in various areas:

• Evangelization
• HR Essentials
• Marriage Prep and Religious Ed
• Spiritual Gifts
• Personal and Professional Relationships
• Parish Scenarios
• …many more!

BE THE LIGHT
The SEEK Conference, hosted annually by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, welcomed 20,000 Catholics to St. Louis at the beginning of the month. The men of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, whose registration was covered by generous donors on Giving Tuesday, had profound opportunities to make a gift of themselves throughout the week. Some men were charged with guarding the relics and the Blessed Sacrament in the 2,000-seat adoration chapel. Others served Holy Mass with bishops and cardinals. Still more accompanied young people from their dioceses and pastoral assignments, offing wisdom and a fatherly presence to further the work of God in each of their lives. Regardless of where the men found themselves throughout the conference, the words of St. Francis of Assisi rang true: “For it is in giving that we receive”.