Originally published at National Catholic Register
In Salt Lake City, adoration went until a little after 10 p.m.
Thousands of young people knelt, sat quietly or lay prostrate during Eucharistic adoration Friday evening at the SEEK25 conference in Salt Lake City, transforming a spacious convention center ballroom into a solemn oasis of prayer that for many participants is a highlight of the otherwise buzzing multi-day — and this year multi-site — Catholic event.
“Just to be able to pray and praise with so many other people and have all of our eyes fixed on the Lord — It’s like, ’Lord, this is a little taste of heaven that we get to just enter into; thank you for that gift,’” regular SEEK attendee and religious sister Sister Tonia of the Heart of Jesus Borsellino of the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament told CNA.
Two thousand miles away from the Salt Palace Convention Center, a similar scene of evening adoration unfolded in Washington, D.C., where an additional SEEK conference is taking place.
The two locations were united in listening to a pair keynote speakers: Msgr. James Shea, president of the University of Mary in North Dakota, who spoke from Salt Lake City, and Sister Miriam James
