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Tom Hoopes

St. Thomas Becket and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton each confronted death during the Christmas season in ways that resound today.

When Death Comes at Christmas: Thomas Becket and Elizabeth Seton

St. Thomas Becket and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton each confronted death during the Christmas season in ways that resound for us today. They are saints to whom we can turn when faced with loss, especially at Christmastide.

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St. Stephen

St. Stephen, First in a Line That Includes Mother Seton

In the lives of St. Stephen and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton we see that authentic service to the poor is deeply rooted in love for God and His Truth.

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St. Damasus, Mother Seton, and the Roots of Christian Comfort

The teachings, sacraments, and traditions of the Church that sustained Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton throughout her life were forged from the heroic virtue of great saints like Damasus of Rome.

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Fulton Sheen and Elizabeth Ann Seton: The Church That Challenges

Venerable Fulton Sheen and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton were both passionately committed to the truth that the Church is God’s channel of grace to humanity. A grace born of much suffering, but overcome by love.

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Mother Seton Saint Ambrose

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Witness of the ‘Church of Ambrose’

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton loved to quote Saint Ambrose, one of the four original Doctors of the Church. On his feast day, we pray that we might follow in his and Mother Seton’s footsteps in teaching the true faith to others — both in words, and in authentic lives of devotion and service.

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Laboure

The Miraculous Medal: Going to Mary with Mother Seton and St. Catherine Labouré

Mary holds for us many graces — we need only ask her for them with confidence and love.

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Icons of Faith: Blessed Miguel Pro and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

In the images and mementos of Blessed 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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albert the great

The Student is the Teacher’s Masterpiece: St. Albert the Great and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

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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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Virtues of Veterans St. Martin of Tours

St. Martin of Tours, Mother Seton, and the Virtues of Veterans

Veterans Day honors those who have served in the military, and is also the feast day of the soldier St. Martin of Tours. The virtues of obedience, humility and sacrifice, which are shared by soldiers and saints, were evident in the life of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who left hearth and home to do spiritual battle for the Kingdom of Christ.

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