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What it is:
Mount 2000 is an annual Eucharist-focused retreat and conference for high school students, hosted at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. For more than 20 years, the men studying for the priesthood at Mount St. Mary's Seminary have been entrusted with leading Mount 2000. The weekend centers on the Eucharist — "the heart of the retreat," as one past chair put it — and typically includes talks on a yearly theme, Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, confession, and a worship concert. The 2026 retreat drew 1,140 retreatants, including 489 from the Archdiocese of Baltimore, who filled Knott Arena — a basketball court converted into a chapel for the weekend. Attendance has run as high as roughly 1,500 in recent years, with participants coming from multiple dioceses across Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and beyond.

Who leads it:
Mount 2000 is entrusted each year to the seminarians of Mount St. Mary's Seminary — men discerning and preparing for the priesthood, who take up the retreat as a labor of love and formation. In organizing every detail, from the liturgical schedule to the safety and care of each young retreatant, they are given a rare and grace-filled opportunity to shepherd souls before they ever reach the altar. As one seminarian who chaired the retreat reflected, "the heart of it is the Eucharist" — and it is that same heart which draws these men to give of themselves so generously each February.