Becoming Extraordinary is available to the Ordinary: Spend 5 with Jesus: January 4, 2023

One of the shrines I remain most impressed with is the shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. She was a wife and a mother, a convert, a founder of a religious community and a saint. What most impressed me however, was how Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton took the ordinary events of her life, and saw in them an invitation to become extraordinary. Like so many, the great moment of conversion for Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton involved the Eucharist. In a church, she recognized in whose presence she was. And like so many, once she realized she was in the presence of Jesus, her whole life changed. She could face being a widow, she could hear the call to found a religious community of teaching sisters, and ultimately she could become holy.