High School Track
Seth De Moor - "The Joy of Living Your Catholic Faith Daily"
Seth De Moor grew up in a Catholic home, but had never made the Faith his own. By the end of his high school career, he wondered what Faith really was - how could he actually live his Faith daily? Whatever the answer was, he was not finding it in his Catholic youth group, and began to wander and explore other protestant youth groups. But there was still something missing. By his sophomore year in college, in 2005, Seth met two priests who changed his life forever. Fr. Augustyn and Fr. Mussett were placed at the University's St. Thomas Aquinas center in Colorado and began to challenge the Catholic students to change. They taught with authority. By the end of his college career, Seth found himself changed and living his Catholic Faith.
By 2010, Seth felt called to "cast into the deep" and journeyed on a 2,400 mile bicycle ride from Florida to Colorado where he recorded stories of peoples' conversions to the Catholic Faith. He now runs a website called OneBillionStories.com and invites all who are ready to join with the story of their conversion.
Seminarian Philip Johnson "The Eucharist - Food for Redemptive Suffering".
Philip G. Johnson, a native of Greensboro, NC, and a member of Sacred Heart Parish in Dunn, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and served in the Navy before entering the seminary. Philip has a special devotion to Servant of God and “Tar Heel Apostle” Father Thomas Frederick Price, also a native-born North Carolinian. And like Father Price, he especially admires St. Bernadette. “She gave us an excellent example of perseverance in the face of sickness and suffering,” he explains. “Although the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette eighteen times, it was really her 13 years of patient prayer and suffering in the convent that led to her canonization.”
Philip will also speak to the General Track.
