Excited to reunite with old friends and make new ones, twenty-two lay readers and lay leaders from the dioceses of Ontario, Huron, Toronto and Moosonee gathered in person and online for our annual Summer Fruit for Souls conference. We were warmly welcomed to a new venue for us: the residence, dining hall and conference facilities of St. Lawrence College in Kingston. Our first time together in person after COVID-19, we were happily joined by about a dozen others whose faces