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Seton Shrine's title: The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
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On August 28, 1774, two years before American independence was declared, Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born to a prominent Episcopalian family in New York City.
She was canonized on September 15, 1975, as Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Rob Judge, executive director of The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, told Aleteia that the shrine staff have had...
I’ll never forget the evening at my parish women’s group when Helen, a registered nurse and one of our oldest members, described a unique kind of volunteer work she did for years at a local hospital.
“They would call me up if someone was alone and near dying,” she explained, “and I would just go and sit with them. Sometimes in the middle of the night, sometimes all nig...
In the year 1774, the English Colonies in the New World felt the tremors of coming war. The previous December, the Sons of Liberty had dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest onerous taxes imposed on the colonists. As the British Crown retaliated, enacting increasingly punitive measures upon its subjects, colonial representatives met in Philadelphia to stra...
O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.<...
Saint Augustine is a Doctor of the Church, one of our instructive teacher-saints whose great Confessions, written sometime before 400 A.D., manages to be so honest and so timeless that it still inspires Christians. Moreover, it is still converting souls who are grateful to find within its pages their own propensity for sins and reckless behaviors so identifiably shared...