All Saints Parish Homilies and News

Visit new Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton museum (with slideshow) This article is published on Aleteia at this site here :  EMMITSBURG, MD - Aleteia attended the opening of a new museum and visitor center dedicated to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. We share some highlights with our readers. On Friday, September 22, the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton celebrated the grand opening of its new $4 million museum and visitor center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The first American-born saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton converted to Catholicism after the death of her beloved husband, William, in 1803. She entered the Catholic Church in 1805, and in 1809 founded a religious congregation, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in Emmitsburg. It was the first religious community for women founded in the United States. The roots of Catholic education in the US can also be traced to Mother Seton through schools that she founded. Daughters and Sisters of Charity continue to play a vibrant role in the life o...

Friday musing from Pastor father Phil Tracy: I may have shared this story before. One of my most uncomfortable moments as a priest occurred many years ago at a mass for the graduating seniors of our parish. As I prepared for mass, I noticed one of the seniors sobbing uncontrollably in our parish hall. I asked him what was going on.  Sadly, he informed me that he would be homeless after the graduation service the next day. His father believed that he should be on his own as a high school graduate, and so he needed to leave.  This could not wait until the next day, sometime during the summer when he pulled things together, or any other time; he needed to be moved out after the ceremony. Of course, neither parent was at church for me to have a conversation over this matter. I have never had to worry about home insecurity, as it is called these days. In my professional life, the parish provides a home for the priest. Some are nicer than others, but I did not have to worry about w...

Date of death of the Polish Ulma family seen as significant (interview & photos) Manuela Tulli, a Vatican reporter for an Italian news agency, co-wrote a book on the Ulma family. Here she reflects about this "family that unites, in a world that divides." Józef and Wiktoria Ulma Pope Francis highlights a novena to the Ulma family. The beatification of the Ulma family this Sunday, September 10, 2023, in Markowa, Poland , is an exceptional event in the history of the Church. It will be the first time that an entire family has been beatified and collectively recognized as martyrs. Hunted by the Nazis for sheltering Jews, Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children — including a baby who lost his life at birth — were executed on March 24, 1944, along with the Goldmanns, the Jewish family of eight they had been sheltering for a year and a half. The Jewish family was made up of:  Saul Goldman with his four sons (all over 18) Baruch, Mechel, Joachim, and Moses. Then there ...