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Kayla
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 04:19 am |
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born Saint, was born and raised in New York. She married, but her husband died during a visit to Italy seeking medical care. While in Italy, she fell in love with the Catholic faith, and converted (from her Episcopal faith) when back in New York.
She started the Sisters of Charity in Baltimore and moved to... guess where? Emmitsburg, Maryland!
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's shrine is just down the road from my college. And what's REALLY cool, is everytime I walk up the path to the Grotto, I am walking the same path that this wonderful Saint did with her school girls to go to Mass every Sunday.
Kind of wish I could be back at school for her feast day. But, oh well. 
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13739a.htm
Last edited on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 04:22 am by Kayla
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 05:46 pm |
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Once, several years ago, when my wife and I had gone to Baltimore to see my mother and sister and their group sing in a Sweet Adelines competition (ever hear hundreds of women sing together in barbershop type harmony? Amazing!  ). We needed a place to stay and ended up staying the night at a bed and breakfast inn just across the street from where Mother Seton had been in Baltimore. It was an awesome feeling to walk over there and realize that we were where a true Saint had walked. About a year or so ago, my wife, horse loving daughter and I were going to Pennsylvania to see a horse training exhibition and we passed through Emmitsburg on the way. Sadly, we did not have time to stop, however, it was again an awesome feeling to realize that we were near where a Saint had lived and died. The area is beautiful and a fitting setting for so great a woman. During the Daily Mass Homily, on EWTN, this morning, the Priest talked at some length about Saint Seton and I have been reading about her today. She was just an awesome, great servant of Christ. Having some Episcopalian background myself (she started out in the Episcopal Church), I feel a connection with her. I am grateful for her wonderful influence upon our nation and proud that she is a native born American Saint and the first one. Last edited on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 05:48 pm by EMarshallBuckles
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heardclarke
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 10:03 pm |
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I wanted to chime in with you all....my name is Elizabeth, and I am a teacher who converted, with my 2 children, from the Episcopal Church after teaching in Catholic schools for 10 years. So I have always felt that St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was sort of my patroness.
I would like to learn more about patron saints and especially St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Where can I find out?
Lisa
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CajunRick
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 11:41 pm |
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EMarshallBuckles wrote: (ever hear hundreds of women sing together in barbershop type harmony? Amazing! )
Yep. Ever sing with a hundred men? Ever sing with three other men in a quartet? Ever attend an SPEBSQSA convention? Ever sing in a barbershop quartet in a hotel bathroom? AMAZING!!!!!!!
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Sat Jan 5th, 2008 04:36 am |
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CajunRick wrote: Yep. Ever sing with a hundred men? Ever sing with three other men in a quartet? Ever attend an SPEBSQSA convention? Ever sing in a barbershop quartet in a hotel bathroom? AMAZING!!!!!!!
Um, no, can't say that I have heard the guys, just the ladies! Of course, at a couple of restaurants, as my wife and I sat there with my mother, sister and their Sweet Adeline friends while we had dinner, the Sweet Adelines all started to SING! So, there we were, sitting in this restaurant, all eyes on us as Mom, my sister and the Sweet Adelines seranaded everybody from their tables! Of course, they sounded great, however, I sing kind of like a frog in a barrel so my wife and I just sat there, continued to munch our food and listened until they got through. Maybe one day I will get to hear the male barbershop quartets sing. So, what did you all do in the bathroom, seranade each other while you shaved, ha, ha?!
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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Sat Jan 5th, 2008 04:45 am |
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heardclarke wrote: I wanted to chime in with you all....my name is Elizabeth, and I am a teacher who converted, with my 2 children, from the Episcopal Church after teaching in Catholic schools for 10 years. So I have always felt that St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was sort of my patroness.
I would like to learn more about patron saints and especially St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Where can I find out?
Lisa
Hi! My daughter's name is Elizabeth too (named after her paternal Great Grandmother and after her maternal Grandmother) so, of course, I am partial to that name! That's wonderful that you have taught in Catholic schools, too!
As for the saints, two sites that I have found and enjoy are:
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/byname.asp
You can look saints up there alphabetically by name, by what they are a patron of and by their days in the year. You can also sign up for a free email which will tell you, each day, which saint's day it is and give you some information about them.
Another site is http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm which will likewise give you information about the saints.
You can also find information about them on Wikepedia or in New Advent Catholic Encylcopedia or, usually, just by typing their names into a search engine. Often I will read the Saint of the Day email then look up more detailed information about the saint. I find their lives fascinating and have often been deeply touched about their service to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hope the above helps!
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CajunRick
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Posted: Sat Jan 5th, 2008 12:24 pm |
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EMarshallBuckles wrote: So, what did you all do in the bathroom, seranade each other while you shaved, ha, ha?!
If you ever attend a convention of the SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) you'll find quartets singing in every bathroom in the hotel. The accoustics are fabulous. In fact, that probably is one of the criteria for selecting a hotel to host the convention: the accoustics of the bathrooms!
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SBC2RCC
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Posted: Sat Jan 5th, 2008 06:25 pm |
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"Walking the same path"
I was blessed to find myself there in Emmitsburg a while back. The same thouoght about wlaking the same path as sucha saint struck me. I saw the rock where a plaque tells of her coming up there, I think it said to picnic.
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heardclarke
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Posted: Sat Jan 5th, 2008 11:47 pm |
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Thanks Marshall!
I am also a singer. Small world!
I still sing with my husband's English-style choir. My Anglican friends can't believe that at least half the music we sing is really Catholic in origin! We sing a lot of Palestrina, Victoria, and other early music.
My personal favorite is Palestrina: Tu Es Petrus, et super hanc petram edificabo ecclesiam meam....
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Ali
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Posted: Mon Jan 7th, 2008 07:20 am |
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She is who I picked as my patron saint
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bwhite06517
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Posted: Wed Jan 9th, 2008 05:03 pm |
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The Homily we had at daily Mass for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for her Feast day highlighted three reasons for her conversion:
1) A love / desire for the Eucharist (seemingly she would sit in her Episcopal Church in such a way she could see the Catholic Church down the block and think of the Blessed Sacrament)
2) A love of our Blessed Mother
3) Acceptance of the Apostolic Succession (instead of the Anglican / Episcopal church going back to King Henry wanting to marry and divorce until he produced an heir)
Bruce
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 04:11 am |
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I enjoyed 2 weeks right next door to the Shrine at The National Fire Academy last Aug. I may have another chance to be up there again this next Aug. I spent my time learning about my job related materials and my late afternoons and weekends walking all around the grounds, visiting the cemetaries (for nuns and St. Elizabeths children and sister-in-law. I even walked to the Grotto behind Mt. Saint Mary's. I was blessed to talk to some of the nuns at the center and attend Mass at the Basilica. It was for me a tremendous spiritual retreat especially since I myself returned to the CC. I literaly walked miles during those times soaking it all in.
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