Ginny’s Gems

Every day at Seton, gathered before the altar at our noontime Angelus, we offer prayers for our families and friends. We are all united in the Communion of Saints, and ...

Some years ago, I taught the Confirmation class for our parish religious education program.  The class was never rowdy or rude; my students were attentive and engaged – a pleasure ...

I am the Lord thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Thou ...

Caption this image! What are the children saying? What is the mouse thinking? Share your child’s comment below! What could be more fun than coloring a picture? Sharing it with ...

When I was about five or six years old, I remember that my maternal grandmother had a beautiful garden in her backyard that she spent many hours cultivating. Among her ...

1655: Christ chose to be born and grow up in the bosom of the holy family of Joseph and Mary. The Church is nothing other than “the family of God.” ...

Graduation from high school is a big deal.  Earning the diploma is a real rite of passage in a young person’s life and should be recognized by great celebration.  Although ...

Hello, I’m Michael McMahon, and I am thrilled to share my Seton experience with all of you. I live in Front Royal, Virginia, hometown of Seton Home Study School. Later ...

Several years ago, His Excellency Cardinal Jose Sanchez was the featured speaker at the Catholic Home Education conference in Manassas, Virginia. He had traveled from Rome in his position as ...

1. We have not finished up the book analyses due for the high school English course. Can my child be excused from this assignment? We very rarely excuse a student ...

Dr. Clark shares the important of saying the St. Michael the Archangel prayer, and how he is a powerful protector for us here on earth in these dark days.

Visiting the cemetery of Mother Seton’s Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Maryland, one experiences both the sadness and the hope of death. Seeing the row of graves marking the burial ...

When I was perhaps eleven or twelve years old, I happened upon a piece of music called Once Upon a Time. It was from a Broadway play that I had ...

In the Odyssey, Homer’s epic about the family as the center of civilization portrays two ways of life—the civilized and the barbaric. The civilized dwell in homes, the barbaric in ...

Seton Home Study School is a college preparatory program, so it is reasonable to surmise that most of our high school students hope to attend college. In some ways, college ...

The McWilliam family was featured in the January, 2013 issue of Seton Magazine, in which we got to hear about their adventures homeschooling on the high seas.  This summer, the ...

During the Battle for Fort Moultrie (then named Fort Sullivan), South Carolina, on June 28, 1776, the flag flown over the American emplacements was a dark blue field with a ...

by Ken Clark Over the years, people have asked us to bind our books in different ways. 1. Perfect Binding There are two main ways that textbook publishers bind books. ...

The old phrase “hate the sin, but love the sinner” reveals a deeply Christian sentiment. Yes, we see sin as the greatest offense against God, but we don’t consider the ...

In Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking” the narrator spends an entire day from morning till evening picking all the apples before the first frost of the season. He has spent the ...