Join the Celtic band Seasons on December 2nd at 7pm for an evening of Christmas music as we usher in the season of Advent.
Join the Emmitsburg Community Chorus on December 3rd at 4pm for an evening of Christmas music as we usher in the season of Advent.
Prepare for Christmas by reflecting on salvation history, singing Advent music, and reading writings from Mother Seton.
Join the Gettysburg Choral Society as they perform their annual Christmas concert at The Seton Shrine.
Celebrate Mother Seton's Feast Day and ring in the new year by joining our next virtual book club.
The Shrine is open until 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings!
Engage Living History Interpreters (many of whom are students) portraying real people from Mother Seton’s world. Rain or shine.
Join us for Adoration and Confession Sun-Fri at 12:15pm-1:15pm. Mass is at 1:30pm.
The Seton Shrine Offers 2023 Christmas Programs to Celebrate the Christmas Season
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PRESS: (Video) Treasures from new St. Elizabeth Ann Seton museum
PRESS: New Seton Shrine Museum sheds light on inner life of saint
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The examples of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Francis Xavier challenge us today. They were each unafraid to seek and preach the truth, despite what others might think or what it might cost them.
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Mother Seton and Servant of God Dorothy Day were radical Christians whose good deeds flowed from lives steeped in prayer—the only thing that makes loving with the Heart of Jesus in the world possible.
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Mary holds for us many graces — we need only ask her for them with confidence and love.
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When we celebrate the feast of Christ the King, we proclaim with the Church that Jesus is the “King of the Universe.” Few understood this fact more intensely than Mother Seton. Do we allow Jesus to be the Lord of our lives? Do we accept him as King in all things?
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As Americans, we instinctively resist any sort of absolute authority. How fitting then that it was by letting herself be ruled by Christ, the King, that Elizabeth Ann Seton—the first American-born saint—showed her fellow Americans where liberation must begin: in Him.
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In the images and mementos of Bl. Miguel Pro’s martyrdom and Mother Seton’s sacrificial life, we see everlasting signs of Christ’s incarnation in the Church and the world.
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St. Cecilia and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, two great saints separated by many centuries, call us to contemplate the beauty of God’s love, the wonders of His Creation, and the powerful effect of beautiful music on our hearts, minds, and souls.
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The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a day to reflect on the gift of maternity in all its forms, and to consider the example of Mother Seton, who stepped into the hard tasks of motherhood with courage and unswerving faith.
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Our Lord, the supernatural architect of our lives, builds with blocks of grace.
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St. Elizabeth of Hungary and Mother Seton both looked at life with wonder and a willingness to be surprised. These saints knew that nothing happens that is not part of God’s plan, and that His plan is utterly good.
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Teachers can’t expect to have a student as exceptional as St. Thomas Aquinas, but both Albertus Magnus and Mother Seton understood that every teacher can create “masterpieces” by forming students in Christ’s image.
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Like Elizabeth Ann Seton, Frances Xavier Cabrini is a saint whose life helps us to remember God’s perspective when we’re in the middle of setbacks and frustrations. No apparent failure is so devastating that He can’t bring good from it.
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The saint and the poet lived and wrote to communicate God’s glory and intimacy with humankind.
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Their boundless capacity for love, friendship and wonder deepened our understanding of the spirituality of children forever.
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Elizabeth Ann Seton was twenty-years old when the Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne were executed during the French Revolution. A century and a half later Francois Poulenc would tell the world their story in his sublime opera, Dialogues des Carmelites.
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The mid-twentieth century immigrant film director and the early-nineteenth century saint born into Manhattan’s elite shared a deep concern for society’s poor and outcasts that was grounded in their Catholic faith.
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The French Catholic writer and the American saint each knew that God’s light shines brightest in the deepest darkness.
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There could hardly be two women who lived in such different cultures as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, yet Mary spoke to each of them.
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Elizabeth Seton and Sigrid Undset were feminist icons without officially becoming feminists because they drew their strength from their Catholicism.
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The saint Elizabeth Seton and the poet Robert Lowell took divergent paths through the storm clouds of their lives, each seeking shelter under God’s immense umbrella of grace.
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In a remarkable act of trust, Elizabeth Seton referred to the death dates of her daughters as their “Heavenly birthdays”—the day when they were born into eternal life after the long, hard labor of dying.
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The Catholic writer and the Catholic saint each grounded their lives and their works in the astonishing power of grace.
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Luigi Giussani and Elizabeth Seton never planned to found religious movements. Their mission was to love God and neighbor and proclaim that the Incarnate God lives now, in the Eucharist and in our encounters with the people we are given.
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These two immensely talented women gave up everything that stood in the way of their love of God and neighbor.
Discover the inspirational life and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Visit the brand new Seton Shrine Museum with engaging, hands-on technology, new artifacts, and more!
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Awe-inspiring and amazing are a few words people have used to describe the Basilica.
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Step back in time to the year 1818 at St. Joseph’s Academy, and engage with our living history interpreters, including our Junior History Interpreters who portrays real students from Mother Seton’s time.
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Step back in time while you tour the Stone House, which was originally built in the mid-1700s.
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This historic home was built in 1810 when Elizabeth Ann Seton realized one home wasn’t enough for all that she had in mind.
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In 1809, Mother Seton and her companions took a walk through the dense woods on their property to select a site for a cemetery.
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