by Dave Armstrong | "I felt I was saying that a creature had created/given life to God Himself, Who had not previously existed."
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Dave Armstrong October 21, 2014 7,899 Views
by Dave Armstrong | "I felt I was saying that a creature had created/given life to God Himself, Who had not previously existed."
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The words of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton on the day of her first Confession are very appropriate: “How awful are those words of unloosing after a thirty years’ bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine Messenger. My God! What new scenes for my soul!”
Read More »Featured Families December 31, 2013 11,621 Views
Pregnant and nauseous, I traveled with my husband, kids, and parents to Emmitsburg, Maryland, to sit on a rock. Yes, a rock. It’s a long story that begins and ends with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. As I sat on the rock from which Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton taught her first three students, with my first three “students” Gianna...
Read More »Kids Corner October 13, 2013 7,696 Views
Download this 'Saints and Sacred' Word Puzzle! A fun activity to for all ages! Search for these words: Rosary, Fatima, saints, Francis, Dominic, Kateri, Thomas, Therese, Luke, Elizabeth, Isaac, Agnes, Rose
Read More »Kids Corner September 28, 2013 7,836 Views
The miracle of the sun happened on October 13th in this town? October is the month of this special prayer or devotion to our Blessed Mother? Answer these questions and more in this month's Crossword!
Read More »Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian August 1, 2013 9,455 Views
A critic of Jane Austen’s novels facetiously coined this phrase to illustrate one of the virtues of civility. Characters with the most refined and elegant manners exemplify this virtue that ...
Read More »Featured Families February 3, 2013 10,065 Views
“The UPS truck just dropped off our school books!” My sisters, Emily and Mary, my brother John, and I race to the door hoping to arrive first at the four ...
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Margaret Elizabeth Doolin was born in August of 1900. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, she became a nurse and was working in the Philippine Islands when World War II ...
Read More »Seton Home Study School January 4, 2011 9,604 Views
Elizabeth Ann Seton, born in 1774, was the first native-born American to be canonized a saint. Her father was a physician, while her mother was the daughter of an Episcopalian ...
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