New Video Explores Mother Seton's Love for the Eucharist
Watch the premiere of "Elizabeth Ann Seton: Transformed by the Eucharist."
The Eucharist transformed Mother Seton, and Mother Seton went on to transform the world.
On this specialty tour, discover all that the Sisters experienced around the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and how they cared for the wounded on both sides.
Read Elizabeth Seton: American Saint to deepen your connection to Mother Seton!
Get your backpacks blessed, meet a young Betty Seton, and learn 19th games and activities!
Learn about plants and trees of the past and walk the historic grounds to learn about the Witness Trees.
Visit the Stone House to learn how the Sisters of Charity turned wool into warm clothing for the winter such as stockings and caps. Live demonstrations given.
The Shrine is open until 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings and The Shop is open until 7pm!
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.
EWTN News-In Depth Covers the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage at the Seton Shrine
Meeting Jesus through Mother Seton’s Example
Press: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage brings ‘joyous’ and ‘amazing’ experience to Emmitsburg
Archbishop Lori’s Homily on Mother Seton and the Eucharistic Pilgrimage
Q&A with Sr. Anne Marie Lamoureux, on inviting marginalized people on retreat
Seton Shrine Displays Saint’s Annotated Bible, Offering Window Into Her Faith
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Throughout their lives, St. Anne and Mother Seton had little idea of the glorious destiny God had in mind for them. They show us how to be faithful to God in all things, and to trust in his perfect plan for our lives.
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In a world that says “have it all,” St. Bridget of Sweden and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton are “mom-saint” role models who show us how trusting in God is the key to balancing marriage, family, and work.
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In the lives of these two saints – one so modern, the other so ancient – the Church reminds us of what it means to be a saint: staying close to Christ.
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The great theologian St. Bonaventure understood, as Mother Seton did, that Christian faith is grounded in absolute trust in God’s love for us. And that it is the miraculous abundance of this assurance that spills over into our love of others.
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Faith is not free; it comes with a cost. But that cost seems small when compared with the immense riches of grace.
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These two great women show us that God can take the smallest and most humble act of love and transform it into “Veronica’s veil,” an imprint of His own divine charity and mercy.
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Like Saint Benedict, the father of western monasticism, Mother Seton’s life was grounded in contemplation and action. She was a woman of prayer who put all of her energy into the work God called her towards, always trusting in Grace.
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Trusting God is the “secret” to holiness. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton knew it, and just decades later, Augustus Tolton followed in her faithful footsteps, trusting in the goodness of God, in spite of worldly obstacles and injustice.
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Unthinkable suffering and injustice can leave us feeling defeated, angry, and near despair. St. Maria Goretti and Mother Seton show us that there is no darkness that is beyond God’s boundless love and forgiveness.
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Both literally and figuratively, mountains were the means by which Pier Giorgio Frassati and Elizabeth Ann Seton scaled the heights of holiness and service to God and neighbor.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton had a bold spirit, embraced new identities, made a home in hard circumstances, and left a giant legacy. She embodied many of the best virtues of being American.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Irenaeus suffered greatly in their lives and were deeply “acquainted with grief.” Instead of leading to despair, suffering made them fully alive to the beauty of the world and to the gift of God’s grace.
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Week Seven | An Easter reflection series with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on the spiritual and mental health crisis afflicting young people.
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Week Six | An Easter reflection series with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on the spiritual and mental health crisis afflicting young people.
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Week Five | An Easter reflection series with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on the spiritual and mental health crisis afflicting young people.
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Week Four | An Easter reflection series with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on the spiritual and mental health crisis afflicting young people.
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Week Three | An Easter reflection series with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on the spiritual and mental health crisis afflicting young people.
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Week Two | An Easter reflection series with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on the spiritual and mental health crisis afflicting young people.
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Week One | An Easter reflection series with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on the spiritual and mental health crisis afflicting young people.
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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.
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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