I love the Stations of the Cross and recently noticed that our lives have the same shape as Christ\u2019s Via Crucis. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton\u2019s certainly did.<\/p>\n
To show how, here are the Stations of the Cross following Mother Seton\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
The images I sketch of Elizabeth\u2019s lifelong way of the cross are based on an exhibit called \u201cThe Face of Sanctity, the Human Face\u201d<\/strong><\/a> from the 2015 New York Encounter<\/a>, an event organized by the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation.<\/p>\n Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n Lord Jesus, in your Way of the Cross you show the shape of each of our lives, because we were born to follow you and you were born to show us the way.<\/p>\n Thank you for giving us your daughter, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton \u2014 wife, mother, widow, teacher and religious \u2014 as our guide. May we make her words our own when she said, \u201c[I was] not only willing to take my cross but kissed it too.\u201d<\/p>\n First Station: Jesus is condemned by Pilate.<\/strong><\/p>\n Elizabeth, like all of us, was born \u201ccondemned\u201d \u2014 her heart wounded by original sin. \u201cO see, in guilt I was born, a sinner was I conceived,\u201d says Psalm 51:5. <\/em><\/p>\n Elizabeth Ann Bayley experienced the effects of original sin harshly. She lost her birth mother as a small child and gained a stepmother who was \u201ccold and distant to her.\u201d She grew up feeling condemned and alone, and even once considered taking Laudanum to end it all. Later she was overwhelmed by \u201cThe praise and thanks of excessive joy not to have done this horrible deed! A thousand promises of eternal gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you, who were innocent, accepted condemnation by Pilate to save us, the guilty. Help all those who feel condemned to misery discover that you entered our darkness to lead us out.<\/em><\/p>\n Second Station: Jesus accepts his cross. <\/strong><\/p>\n Elizabeth began her adult life by accepting a cross. Marriage, <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism, \u201cgives [couples] the strength to take up their crosses and so follow him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Elizabeth Seton found a husband immediately \u2014 and found immediate burdens, too. The children came quickly: in her first, second, and fourth, sixth and eighth years of marriage. Her husband didn\u2019t share her deep faith, causing her sorrow. Then he inherited his father\u2019s business, and its stresses. Yet she said these were the happiest years of her life.<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you accepted your cross with gratitude. Help married couples learn <\/em>that<\/em><\/a> \u201cSacrifice is usually difficult and irksome. Only love can make it easy, and perfect love can make it a joy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Third Station: Jesus falls for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s compare each of Christ\u2019s three falls to the great blows of life that knock us down. Elizabeth\u2019s widowhood was that \u2014 but she found that marriage \u201cgives [spouses] the strength \u2026 to rise again after they have fallen,\u201d the Catechism <\/em>teaches<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n When William Seton became ill with tuberculosis, Elizabeth took him to Italy. But when the couple arrived there they were forced into \u201cthe dungeon of Lazaretto\u201d to be quarantined. The experience reminded Elizabeth of the solitary abandonment of her youth, and not long later William was dead. But she was consoled by \u201cthe sweetness of the sound\u201d of \u201chim pronouncing the name of his redeemer.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, we learn from your fall under the weight of the cross that our own suffering has meaning and purpose. Give us the strength to rise again like you did.<\/em><\/p>\n Fourth Station: Jesus meets his mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Mother of God is a type of the Church,\u201d says the Vatican II document <\/em>Lumen Gentium. Next on her journey, Elizabeth met her ecclesial mother.<\/em><\/p>\n In Italy, Elizabeth met Mother Church in a big way. She was \u201cspeechless before the richness of imagery in the Catholic Liturgy,\u201d according to The Face of Sanctity<\/em>. She saw Catholics kneeling before the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and said, \u201cHow happy would we be if we believed what these dear souls believe!\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, from your encounter with your mother, you drew the strength to carry the cross. Give us that grace in our encounter with Mother Church.<\/em><\/p>\n Fifth Station: Simon helps Jesus carry the cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n Elizabeth needed help with her cross, and got it. Lay people \u201care made sharers in their particular way in the priestly, prophetic, and kingly office of Christ,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism. <\/em><\/p>\n For Jesus, Simon of Cyrene shared the cross. For Elizabeth, her husband\u2019s Italian friend Antonio shared the cross. \u201cAntonio Filicchi showed me how to make the sign of the cross!\u201d <\/em>Elizabeth reported to a friend. \u201cThe sign of the cross<\/em> of Christ on me! … what earnest desires to be closely united with him who died on it.\u201d Later, he would also help her on her way, like Simon, accompanying her to New York.<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you accepted the help of Simon. We want to help you also, when we see you in those who need our assistance.<\/em><\/p>\n Sixth Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cLet charity be genuine,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism. \u201cContribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.\u201d Elizabeth encountered life-changing charity.<\/em><\/p>\n Elizabeth didn\u2019t only receive instruction from Antonio. His wife\u2019s hospitality left an impression \u2014 literally. Like a Veronica, Amabilia Filicchi reproduced Elizabeth\u2019s image in her popular painting,<\/a> and also left an image of Christlike spousal love. Elizabeth was \u201cdeeply struck by the union [the Filicchis] experienced within the Eucharist: A depth of union she knew she did not have with William,\u201d according to The Face of Sanctity <\/em>exhibit.<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, when Veronica consoled you on the way of the cross, you left your image with her. Forever after, Christian charity bears your image.<\/em><\/p>\n Seventh Station: Jesus falls a second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n Then Elizabeth faced another upheaval: conversion to the Catholic Church. \u201cAll \u2026 must be prepared to confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the Cross,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cElizabeth was left more alone than ever in the face of a decision that threatened to leave her more so: Her year-long agony over the decision to enter the Catholic Church,\u201d says The Face of Sanctity<\/em>. She was making a choice that would alienate family and friends, and she wrote to the Filicchis that she was \u201cOn my knees beseeching God to enlighten me to see the truth, unmixed with doubts and hesitations.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, at your seventh station, you have traveled a hard road. But a harder road lay ahead. You get up from your fall, and begin again.<\/em><\/p>\n Eighth Station: Jesus greets the daughters of Jerusalem.<\/strong><\/p>\n Elizabeth gained new daughters of her own to instruct. \u201cThe fourth commandment\u201d honoring your parents \u201cextends to the duties of pupils to teachers\u201d and vice versa, <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism. <\/em><\/p>\n Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore took an interest in the newly Catholic Elizabeth Ann Seton. She would soon move to his city and start a school for girls. \u201cIt is expected I shall be the mother of many daughters,\u201d she wrote. Like Jesus on the Via Crucis, Elizabeth redirected her priorities. And new \u201cdaughters\u201d kept coming.<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you said \u201cDaughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and your children.\u201d Help us reorient our lives according to your call.<\/em><\/p>\n Ninth Station: Jesus falls a third time.<\/strong><\/p>\n The next weight placed upon Elizabeth was a new vocation. The consecrated person \u201csurrenders [her]self to the God [she] loves above all else,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism. <\/em><\/p>\n Taking vows brought joys but also new stresses. In particular, Elizabeth had a deeply difficult experience with an appointed superior, and found no relief from her bishop. It all served to \u201ccreate in my mind a confusion and want of confidence in my Superiors which is indescribable,\u201d she said. But she added \u201cHow good is the cross for me; this is my opportunity to ground myself in patience and perseverance.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, give us the patience and perseverance you showed as you were knocked to your knees again and again on the way of the cross.<\/em><\/p>\n Tenth Station: Jesus is stripped.<\/strong><\/p>\n Elizabeth found her vulnerabilities laid bare by her new vocation. The call to the religious life is a call \u201cTo follow and imitate Christ more nearly and to manifest more clearly his self- emptying,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism.<\/em><\/p>\n Elizabeth wrote of the \u201cpoverty and sorrow\u201d she faced. \u201cStruggles in the formation and structure of the new order were not the only test,\u201d says The Face of Sanctity.<\/em> Two of her sisters-in-law joined her in her new faith and her vocation but soon \u201cElizabeth would lose both of them and her own daughter Rebecca to tuberculosis.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you were stripped of more than your clothes. You lost your friends, your family, and the crowds who followed you. But the Father\u2019s will was enough for you.<\/em><\/p>\n Eleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n Holiness comes from nailing ourselves to our daily duty. As Benedict XVI put it, citing St. Hilary, \u201cAccess to Christ is open to all, on condition that they divest themselves of their former self, nailing it to the Cross.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n Mother Seton at times had the worst of both worlds: the hardest parts of being a religious and the hardest parts of being a mother. Her oldest child \u201cAnnina\u2019s death left Elizabeth in the most debilitating grief she had ever experienced.\u201d She learned that \u201cWe are never strong enough to bear our cross; it is the cross which carries us. Nor so weak as to be unable to bear it, since the weakest become strong by its virtue.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you were nailed to the cross of God\u2019s will. Help us realize that our surrender to our vocation is surrender to you.<\/em><\/p>\n Twelfth Station: Jesus dies on the cross. <\/strong><\/p>\n Death comes to all. Elizabeth knew well that a Christian \u201ccan transform his own death into an act of obedience and love towards the Father, after the example of Christ,\u201d as the Catechism <\/em>says<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Elizabeth prayed often regarding her death. \u201cThe dear, dear, dear adored will be done at every moment of [my life]\u201d she prayed. \u201cAnd when it is all over, how we will rejoice that it was done!\u201d At last she joined her Lord, and her husband and daughters, in death.<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you committed your spirit to your Father, and then you were gone. Give us the grace of dying in your grace.<\/em><\/p>\n Thirteenth Station: Jesus\u2019s friends take him down from the cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n Solidarity, friendship, \u201cis a direct demand of human and Christian brotherhood\u201d \u2014 and sisterhood!\u2014 sealed \u201cby Jesus Christ on the altar of the Cross,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism.<\/em><\/p>\n In the end, it was left for Elizabeth\u2019s friends to share her letters and her life. \u201cOne hallmark of Elizabeth\u2019s life is the intensity and depth with which she lived her relationships,\u201d says The Face of Sanctity.<\/em> To a friend she wrote: \u201cThere is not an hour of my life in which I do not want either the advice or soothings of friendship.\u201d But she wrote to another, \u201cthe tenderest interest you ever can bestow on me is only a stream of which [Jesus] is the fountain.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you <\/em>said<\/em><\/a>, \u201cNo greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends.\u201d May we gratefully receive your sacrifice as your first friends did.<\/em><\/p>\n Fourteenth Station: Jesus is laid in his tomb.<\/strong><\/p>\n Last, Mother Seton entered into heaven. \u201cInvoke her protection, now that we have the certitude of her participation in the exchange of heavenly life \u2026 the Communion of Saints,\u201d Paul VI said at her canonization.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cEternity, oh how near it often seems to me!\u201d St. Elizabeth Ann wrote. She said she longed for \u201cthe gift of heaven in order that certain duties may be fulfilled, and the path that leads to a state of immortality and perfection.\u201d<\/p>\n She found it. As she told her sisters on her deathbed: \u201cOne communion more \u2014 and then eternity!\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Jesus, thank you for opening our way to heaven by your Way of the Cross. May we rest in death as you did, and rise again with you. <\/em>Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n Lord Jesus, you told us that \u201cWhoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.\u201d As our meditation on your Way of the Cross ends, our own Way of the Cross continues. We ask the intercession of your Blessed Mother and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to walk it faithfully<\/p>\n TOM HOOPES<\/strong>,\u00a0author most recently of The Rosary of Saint John Paul II, is writer in residence at Benedictine College in Kansas, where he teaches. He hosts The Extraordinary Stor<\/a>y podcast about the life of Christ. His book What Pope Francis Really Said<\/a> is now available on Audible<\/a>. A former reporter in the Washington, D.C., area, he served as press secretary for the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee Chairman and spent 10 years as editor of the National Catholic Register newspaper and Faith & Family magazine. His work frequently appears in the Register, Aleteia, and Catholic Digest. He lives in Atchison, Kansas, with his wife, April, and has nine children.<\/em><\/p>\n
![her popular painting,<\/a> and also left an image of Christlike spousal love. Elizabeth was \u201cdeeply struck by the union [the Filicchis] experienced within the Eucharist: A depth of union she knew she did not have with William,\u201d according to The Face of Sanctity <\/em>exhibit.<\/p>\nLord Jesus, when Veronica consoled you on the way of the cross, you left your image with her. Forever after, Christian charity bears your image.<\/em><\/p>\nSeventh Station: Jesus falls a second time.<\/strong><\/p>\nThen Elizabeth faced another upheaval: conversion to the Catholic Church. \u201cAll \u2026 must be prepared to confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the Cross,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cElizabeth was left more alone than ever in the face of a decision that threatened to leave her more so: Her year-long agony over the decision to enter the Catholic Church,\u201d says The Face of Sanctity<\/em>. She was making a choice that would alienate family and friends, and she wrote to the Filicchis that she was \u201cOn my knees beseeching God to enlighten me to see the truth, unmixed with doubts and hesitations.\u201d<\/p>\nLord Jesus, at your seventh station, you have traveled a hard road. But a harder road lay ahead. You get up from your fall, and begin again.<\/em><\/p>\nEighth Station: Jesus greets the daughters of Jerusalem.<\/strong><\/p>\nElizabeth gained new daughters of her own to instruct. \u201cThe fourth commandment\u201d honoring your parents \u201cextends to the duties of pupils to teachers\u201d and vice versa, <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism. <\/em><\/p>\nBishop John Carroll of Baltimore took an interest in the newly Catholic Elizabeth Ann Seton. She would soon move to his city and start a school for girls. \u201cIt is expected I shall be the mother of many daughters,\u201d she wrote. Like Jesus on the Via Crucis, Elizabeth redirected her priorities. And new \u201cdaughters\u201d kept coming.<\/p>\nLord Jesus, you said \u201cDaughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and your children.\u201d Help us reorient our lives according to your call.<\/em><\/p>\nNinth Station: Jesus falls a third time.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe next weight placed upon Elizabeth was a new vocation. The consecrated person \u201csurrenders [her]self to the God [she] loves above all else,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism. <\/em><\/p>\nTaking vows brought joys but also new stresses. In particular, Elizabeth had a deeply difficult experience with an appointed superior, and found no relief from her bishop. It all served to \u201ccreate in my mind a confusion and want of confidence in my Superiors which is indescribable,\u201d she said. But she added \u201cHow good is the cross for me; this is my opportunity to ground myself in patience and perseverance.\u201d<\/p>\nLord Jesus, give us the patience and perseverance you showed as you were knocked to your knees again and again on the way of the cross.<\/em><\/p>\nTenth Station: Jesus is stripped.<\/strong><\/p>\nElizabeth found her vulnerabilities laid bare by her new vocation. The call to the religious life is a call \u201cTo follow and imitate Christ more nearly and to manifest more clearly his self- emptying,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism.<\/em><\/p>\nElizabeth wrote of the \u201cpoverty and sorrow\u201d she faced. \u201cStruggles in the formation and structure of the new order were not the only test,\u201d says The Face of Sanctity.<\/em> Two of her sisters-in-law joined her in her new faith and her vocation but soon \u201cElizabeth would lose both of them and her own daughter Rebecca to tuberculosis.\u201d<\/p>\nLord Jesus, you were stripped of more than your clothes. You lost your friends, your family, and the crowds who followed you. But the Father\u2019s will was enough for you.<\/em><\/p>\nEleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross.<\/strong><\/p>\nHoliness comes from nailing ourselves to our daily duty. As Benedict XVI put it, citing St. Hilary, \u201cAccess to Christ is open to all, on condition that they divest themselves of their former self, nailing it to the Cross.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\nMother Seton at times had the worst of both worlds: the hardest parts of being a religious and the hardest parts of being a mother. Her oldest child \u201cAnnina\u2019s death left Elizabeth in the most debilitating grief she had ever experienced.\u201d She learned that \u201cWe are never strong enough to bear our cross; it is the cross which carries us. Nor so weak as to be unable to bear it, since the weakest become strong by its virtue.\u201d<\/p>\nLord Jesus, you were nailed to the cross of God\u2019s will. Help us realize that our surrender to our vocation is surrender to you.<\/em><\/p>\nTwelfth Station: Jesus dies on the cross. <\/strong><\/p>\nDeath comes to all. Elizabeth knew well that a Christian \u201ccan transform his own death into an act of obedience and love towards the Father, after the example of Christ,\u201d as the Catechism <\/em>says<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nElizabeth prayed often regarding her death. \u201cThe dear, dear, dear adored will be done at every moment of [my life]\u201d she prayed. \u201cAnd when it is all over, how we will rejoice that it was done!\u201d At last she joined her Lord, and her husband and daughters, in death.<\/p>\nLord Jesus, you committed your spirit to your Father, and then you were gone. Give us the grace of dying in your grace.<\/em><\/p>\nThirteenth Station: Jesus\u2019s friends take him down from the cross.<\/strong><\/p>\nSolidarity, friendship, \u201cis a direct demand of human and Christian brotherhood\u201d \u2014 and sisterhood!\u2014 sealed \u201cby Jesus Christ on the altar of the Cross,\u201d <\/em>says<\/em><\/a> the Catechism.<\/em><\/p>\nIn the end, it was left for Elizabeth\u2019s friends to share her letters and her life. \u201cOne hallmark of Elizabeth\u2019s life is the intensity and depth with which she lived her relationships,\u201d says The Face of Sanctity.<\/em> To a friend she wrote: \u201cThere is not an hour of my life in which I do not want either the advice or soothings of friendship.\u201d But she wrote to another, \u201cthe tenderest interest you ever can bestow on me is only a stream of which [Jesus] is the fountain.\u201d<\/p>\nLord Jesus, you <\/em>said<\/em><\/a>, \u201cNo greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends.\u201d May we gratefully receive your sacrifice as your first friends did.<\/em><\/p>\nFourteenth Station: Jesus is laid in his tomb.<\/strong><\/p>\nLast, Mother Seton entered into heaven. \u201cInvoke her protection, now that we have the certitude of her participation in the exchange of heavenly life \u2026 the Communion of Saints,\u201d Paul VI said at her canonization.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cEternity, oh how near it often seems to me!\u201d St. Elizabeth Ann wrote. She said she longed for \u201cthe gift of heaven in order that certain duties may be fulfilled, and the path that leads to a state of immortality and perfection.\u201d<\/p>\nShe found it. As she told her sisters on her deathbed: \u201cOne communion more \u2014 and then eternity!\u201d<\/p>\nLord Jesus, thank you for opening our way to heaven by your Way of the Cross. May we rest in death as you did, and rise again with you. <\/em>Amen.<\/em><\/p>\nConclusion<\/strong><\/p>\nLord Jesus, you told us that \u201cWhoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.\u201d As our meditation on your Way of the Cross ends, our own Way of the Cross continues. We ask the intercession of your Blessed Mother and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to walk it faithfully<\/p>\nTOM HOOPES<\/strong>,\u00a0author most recently of The Rosary of Saint John Paul II, is writer in residence at Benedictine College in Kansas, where he teaches. He hosts The Extraordinary Stor<\/a>y podcast about the life of Christ. His book What Pope Francis Really Said<\/a> is now available on Audible<\/a>. A former reporter in the Washington, D.C., area, he served as press secretary for the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee Chairman and spent 10 years as editor of the National Catholic Register newspaper and Faith & Family magazine. His work frequently appears in the Register, Aleteia, and Catholic Digest. 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