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.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Elizabeth Seton and Their Devotion to Mary
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Seton & Culture
A new essay series on religious artists, writers, thinkers, activists and visionaries from the perspective of Elizabeth Seton’s spirituality.
The Vocation of Women According to Elizabeth Seton and Sigrid Undset
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Elizabeth Seton and Sigrid Undset were feminist icons without officially becoming feminists because they drew their strength from their Catholicism.
Reimagining Robert Lowell
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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.
Gravitas: Good Friday, 2022
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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.
The Eucharist at the Core: Flannery O’Connor and Elizabeth Ann Seton
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The Catholic writer and the Catholic saint each grounded their lives and their works in the astonishing power of grace.
Companionship in Christ: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Fr. Luigi Giussani
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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.
Dolores Hart and Elizabeth Seton: Threading the Eye of a Needle
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These two immensely talented women gave up everything that stood in the way of their love of God and neighbor.
Spiritual Soul Mates: Elizabeth Seton and Poet Vassar Miller
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Vassar Miller, her body limiting what she could do in the world, lived out her life in Christ through her poetry. Despite their different circumstances, she and Elizabeth Seton are soul sisters, linked by the spirituality that they shared.
Henri Nouwen, Elizabeth Seton, and the Painful Price of Love
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Elizabeth Seton and Henri Nouwen arrived at the same conclusion about what God asks of us: to give ourselves away in love.
The Conversions of Elizabeth Seton and the poet Denise Levertov
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Elizabeth Seton and Denise Levertov were strong women with strong wills who surrendered themselves body and soul to God.
Love’s Music and the ‘Yes’ of the Convert
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The lives of Thomas Merton and Elizabeth Ann Seton make for rich, vibrant history which—like good music—resounds down the halls of memory.