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Rose Philippine Duchesne

Towers of Grace: Mother Seton and St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

Our Lord, the supernatural architect of our lives, builds with blocks of grace.

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St Elizabeth of Hungary

The Beauty of Life: Elizabeth of Hungary and Elizabeth Ann Seton

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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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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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC

Through Life’s Ups and Downs With Mother Cabrini and Mother Seton

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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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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St. Leo the Great

In Troubled Times, Look to Leo the Great and Mother Seton

The saints who have gone before us show us how to live with the conflicts and turmoil of our times.

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Blessed John Duns Scotus

Duns Scotus, ‘Master of Thought and Life,’ and Mother Seton

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Blessed John Duns Scotus were certain that God, outside of time, is not bound by human categories. By the witness of their lives and their mystical insights, these saints connected the earthly realities of Christ’s Incarnation to the inexhaustible mystery of Divine Revelation.

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All Souls - Can we ever pray enough prayers for the dead?

Can We Ever Pray Enough Prayers for the Dead?

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton knew the secret of God’s grace and generosity. She once wrote: “The greater my unworthiness, the more abundant His mercy.” Her words are a great consolation when we feel weak in the face of a world that needs us.

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St. Charles Borromeo

Growing in Humility with St. Charles Borromeo and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Humility consists in embracing God and his ways over the ways of the earth, no matter the cost.

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