 The encounter with God is so amazingly present at the Avila Institute. It's that universal quality of holiness. I just couldn't not be here. It was so fulfilling. I'm going to come away from this weekend feeling invigorated. An entirely positive experience. Upbuilding, encouraging, formative and informative. Well, the speakers are very engaging, very joyful and just speak with the words of the Father. And I just, yeah, I like experience God through listening to them speak. What I get out of this is really something that's quite deep because it's something that you take home with you. The Institute challenges me. It stretches me. It pulls me in several different directions that I would not go on my own. And it's really increased my spiritual growth. I knew that the kind of people that I would meet here would have the same sort of heart that I was developing and that I would learn from everyone I met here. It is so full of orthodoxy, so full of a spiritual nature, spiritual life that as a seminarian I myself need to grow in even more. Avila has done a great job in fostering online education that also has real-time engagement. They're really plugged into the best that the Church offers in terms of spiritual formation and spiritual theology and are clearly fostering a community of people that are really healthy and wholesome and desiring holiness and desiring ways to grow in that and to share that with other people. This is an opportunity to be with other faithful Catholics who have such a love for the Lord and want to grow in faith. When I look at the audience here and I see the great diversity of it all, I see the whole face of the Church, young, old, black, white, Latino, Asian, religious, priest, lay, everybody, everybody coming together. I'd say the Avila Institute, just by virtue of what it is, is beneficial to the Church and to the members of the Church because of the depth of its teaching, the quality of it. The talks were excellent, the material was excellent, but the best part is being with this community which I found to be very spiritually engaging, very warm, loving, wonderful people to be with, a whole variety of experiences and ways to apply the material and ways that they're living out their own spiritual life in their own corners of the world and that encounter to actually be here with them was really a very blessed experience and something that I would look forward to again. The summit is an opportunity for us to have those friendships be face to face. The Lord wants to equip us and this is a place that is ready. I would definitely recommend it. It's a pretty special thing that the Avila Institute have done and so I would definitely recommend it to my friends. It's an incredible experience. It's heart changing, not life changing, heart changing.