Sisters of Charity Gift Shop
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Books & Booklets
Note Cards
Birthday Cards
Christmas Cards
Prints
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Prayer Cards
Prayer Cards
Books & Booklets
Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill Volume II $15
each
This history book of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill details the ministry from 1945-2002 with contributions from many sisters familiar with the history of the period in both secular society and in the Church and those familiar with the various ministries in which the sisters had served to undertake researching and writing the history for each section in the book.
Letters of Mother Seton to Mrs. Juliana Scott Donation Optional
In his forward, Msgr. Joseph B. Code states, "This volume of letters is not meant to serve as a formal biography of Mother Seton. It is intended to throw additional light on the character of this great American woman and to present her from a totally different point of view. Through the letters, she reveals herself as the faithful friend whose love reached out across the years..."
Saint Elizabeth Seton: The Holiness of an American Woman $.30 each 
Sister Mary Schmidt, SC, summarizes Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton’s life in this 14 page booklet. “Work and Prayer,” “Faith and Trust,” “Friendships,” “The Church,” “The Eucharist,” “Death,” and “A Saint for Us” outline Mother Seton’s life and faith.
Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton No Charge
Joseph I. Dirvin, C.M., provides a short biography on Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in a 31 page booklet.
Congregational Prayer in honor of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Donation
The Congregational Prayer in honor of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton is for congregational, school, and personal prayer.
Note Cards
Convent Kitchen 12 cards for $5
The image on the front of this card, Convent Kitchen, is taken from a painting done by Sister Mary Francis Irvin, SC. Done in oil on canvas, this painting was completed in 1944. Sister Mary Francis served as assistant professor and then associate professor of art at Seton Hill University from 1950-1971. During that time, she and Sister Mary Estelle Hensler, SC, founded the University’s Art Department. Today, Sister Mary Francis resides at Caritas Christi.
Lilacs 12 cards for $5
The artwork on this card was taken from a painting done by Sister M. Fides Glass, SC. The original painting, known simply as Lilacs, is displayed at Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill.
Spring at Seton Hill College 12 cards for $5
The artwork on this card was taken from a painting done by Sister M. Fides Glass, SC. The original painting, known as Spring at Seton Hill College, is displayed at Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill.
Our Lady of Assumption 12 cards for $5
This statue, Our Lady of Assumption, was sculpted by Francis Aretz. From 1954 to 1996, the statue was displayed in the chapel at Assumption Hall. Today, it stand outside of the Chapel of the Assumption at Caritas Christi.
Christmas at Caritas Christi 12 cards for $5
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton repeatedly avowed that she looked “always directly upward,” thus inspiring Sister Thecla (Mary T.) Schmidt, SC (lyrics) and Sister Cecilia Ward, SC (music) to write Look to the Skies.
At Christmas, the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill are reminded of Mother Seton’s trust when they look to the top of the 35-foot tall Christmas tree decorated simply with 2,000 white twinkle lights and a large white star. The tree is displayed in the first floor Atrium at Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill.
Madonna with Christ Child and St. John 12 cards for $5
Having acquired a copy of Raphael’s Madonna with Christ Child and St. John in early 1900, the Sisters of Charity have displayed this work of art, first at the original motherhouse at Seton Hill, then at Assumption Hall, and now at Caritas Christi, the new motherhouse. The painting and frame were restored in 1999 and presenting grace the Theodosia Parlor at Caritas Christi.
Birthday Cards
Grotto at Seton Hill 12 cards for $5 
The artwork on this card was taken from a painting done by Sister M. Fides Glass, SC. The original painting, known simply as Grotto at Seton Hill, is displayed at Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill.
Text inside reads as follows:
Left side-“…every day of life more and more increases my gratitude to Him for having made me what I am.”
-Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Right side-With gratitude to God for having made you. Happy Birthday.
Christmas Cards
Virgin Most Powerful 12 cards for $5 
The image on the front of this card, Virgin Most Powerful, is taken from a painting done by Sister Mary Francis Irvin, SC. Done in egg tempera glazes on a gesso panel, this painting was completed in 1945. Sister Mary Francis served as assistant professor and then associate professor of art at Seton Hill University from 1950 to 1971. During that time, she and Sister Mary Estelle Hensler, SC, founded the University’s art department. Today, Sister Mary Francis resides at Caritas Christi.
The text inside this card is part of the Canticle of Zechariah, as presented in the People’s Companion to the Breviary. It is used with the permission of the Carmelites of Indianapolis.
Text Inside reads as follows:
Left side-Leaping from the eternal womb of God, you come into our world; may we reverence this world that you love. Encircled in the loving womb of Mary, you graced her life; may we reverence all children born into this world. Experiencing our weakness and littleness, you taught us true greatness; teach us to reverence the sick, the elderly, and the lonely. Enjoying the blessings of family life, you knew the gift of sharing; give comfort to the homeless, the abandoned, and the forgotten. Returning to the one you loved and served, you sent us your spirit; may all who die know your welcoming and loving embrace.
Right side-The Savior of the world shall appear like the sun and descend into the Virgin’s womb as rain on the grass. May the blessings of Christmas descend on you throughout the coming year.
Our Lady of Assumption 12 for $5
This statue, Our Lady of Assumption, was sculpted by Francis Aretz. From 1954 to 1996, the statue was displayed in the chapel at Assumption Hall. Today, it stand outside of the Chapel of the Assumption at Caritas Christi.
The text for the card was taken from Prayers for Sundays and Seasons (Year B).
Text inside reads as follows:
Eternal God, whom the heavens cannot contain, you have chosen as your tabernacle, the womb of Mary, the Virgin of Nazareth. Overshadow us with your power, form us as your daughters and sons and knit us together as your holy people according to your holy word. With prayerful greetings for a blessed and happy new year!
Chapel of the Assumption 12 for $5
The soaring, two-story Chapel of the Assumption is the jewel of Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill. Designed as a work of art, it faces the east into the morning light. Surrounded by three walls of windows that look out on the Laurel Highlands, the chapel offers a magnificent place of prayer and worship set amid the beauty of nature. It is a setting that truly inspires prayer.
The text for this card was taken from the Prayers for Sundays and Seasons (Year B), p. 12.
Text inside reads as follows:
While all the world, Lord God, lay wrapped in deepest silence, and night had reached its midpoint, your all-powerful Word came down. As year by year the beauty of this night returns, growing old with the aged and renewed in the wonder of children, so may we, grown old in sin but reborn to grace, proclaim with our lives what we chant with our lips: Glory to you, our God, in the highest heaven, peace on earth and in the depths of every heart.
Prints
Convent Kitchen Prints
8x10 matted: $10
16x24 matted: $50
The image on the front of this card, Convent Kitchen, is taken from a painting done by Sister Mary Francis Irvin, SC. Done in oil on canvas, this painting was completed in 1944. Sister Mary Francis served as assistant professor and then associate professor of art at Seton Hill University from 1950-1971. During that time, she and Sister Mary Estelle Hensler, SC, founded the University’s Art Department. Today, Sister Mary Francis resides at Caritas Christi.
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8x10 with white border: $1.50 each
8x10 without white border: $1 each
The artwork on this print was taken from a painting done by Sister M. Fides Glass, SC.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Prayer Cards
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Artist: Sister M. Fides Glass, SC $.13 each
Lord, God,
you blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton
with gifts of grace
as wife and mother,
educator and foundress,
so that she might spend her life
in service to your people.
Through her example and prayers,
may we learn to express
our love for you
in love for others.
We ask this through our Lord
Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Artist: Sister Laura Bench $.50 per hundred
Lord, God,
you blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton
with gifts of grace
as wife and mother,
educator and foundress,
so that she might spend her life
in service to your people.
Through her example and prayers,
may we learn to express
our love for you
in love for others.
We ask this through our Lord
Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton $.05 each or $5 per hundred .jpg)
O God, may our longing
for heavenly things lead us to Yourself.
Increase our desire for
union with You
through the intercession
of Saint Elizabeth Ann
Seton who sought You
in her charity and found
You by her faith
Amen.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton $.15 each 
The Locket Portrait
Shorty after their marriage in 1794, William and Elizabeth Seton exchanged small gold lockets, each containing a miniature portrait, one of Elizabeth, the other of William, and two locks of hair.
For years these lockets have been in the loving possession of the New York Sisters of Charity.
During those years, the glass guarding the tiny paintings grew dim and scratched. The images were blurred and indistinct.
But in 1975, at the time of the canonization, the sisters permitted a skilled jeweler to open the precious lockets, and for the first time in many years, the crisp and clear and exquisite image of Elizabeth Ann Seton could be seen.
Copies were made, showing as much detail as the original. The New York Times ran a full-page copy on their magazine cover in September 1975, in a special edition honoring America’s first native-born saint.
This is believed to be the only full-face portrait of Elizabeth Seton painted during her lifetime.
In 1794, William had written to Elizabeth, “I showed my friends your portrait, and many agreeable things were said, for which I felt greatly flattered, but let them know that the artist, although a Frenchman, had not at all flattered you.”
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton $.25 each
The Filicchi Portrait
This picture is generally known as the “Filicchi Portrait” and is based on an engraving of Elizabeth Bayley Seton by Ceroni (ca. 1798) and after one done by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mein in 1797, which the Setons gave the Filicchis. Sometime after the death of William Magee Seton, the Filicchi family commissioned this portrait of Widow Seton based on the face but with the opposite profile from the Ceroni engraving and adding the traditional black cap and cape, habit of American Sisters of Charity. Perhaps Amabilia Filicchi provided the grieving Elizabeth with the customary dress of “widow’s weeds” worn in Tuscany at that time.
The painting remained with the Filicchi family. In 1888, probably in response to a request from the Daughters of Charity asking that he send the portrait to Emmitsburg, Patrizzio Filicchi wrote that he kept the portrait “always before my eyes.” He sent a copy of it to Emmitsburg which is now exhibited in the museum of the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.
In 1984, when Bishop Alberto Ablondi of Livorno, Italy, visited Emmitsburg with a group of pilgrims, among them a Filicchi descendant, the Sisters learned that the original painting had been destroyed during the bombing of World War II.
There have been many copies of the Filicchi portrait made during the years, both left and right silhouettes. The original Filicchi presents the right profile of Elizabeth. Although, in it, Mother Seton wears a finger rosary at the waist. In some later copies, she hold a rosary in her hand. This touch was probably added in the 20th century.
The copy at Emmitsburg, commissioned by the Filicchi family more than a hundred years ago, is considered now to be the most authentic image of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton available.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Wife & Mother $.15 each 
Elizabeth, Loving Daughter
Encourage in all children obedience and love
Elizabeth, Troubled Teenager
Speak to today’s confused, sometimes abused young people
Elizabeth, Faithful Wife
Grant gifts of love and generosity to all spouses
Elizabeth, Caring Mother
Share your mother’s heart with all parents
Elizabeth, Grieving Widow
Look with compassion on all bereaved wives
Elizabeth, Loyal Friend
Teach us to share friendship generously
Elizabeth Heroic Searcher of Truth
Guide all who, with fear and doubt, seek the way
Elizabeth, Courageous Convert
Strengthen the newly baptized as they embrace the faith
Elizabeth, Sorrowing Mother
Console those parents suffering the loss of a child
Elizabeth, Steadfast Religious
Inspire young women to follow in your path
Elizabeth, Inspired Educator
Share your gifts with all teachers
Elizabeth, a Woman for all Women
Bestow your charism of love and service on all women today
-Sister M. Irene Fugazy, SC
Prayer of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton to Attain Happiness in God $.25 each
Almighty Giver of all mercies, Father of all, who knows my heard and pities its weaknesses and errors, you know the desire of my soul is to do your will. It struggles to wing its flight to you, its Creator, and sinks again in sorrow for that imperfection which draws it back to earth. How long shall I contend with sin and mortality! When will that hour arrive which shall free the troubled spirit from its prison, and change the sadness of this life for immortality and endless happiness!
I bow to you, my God, in cheerful hope, that confiding in your infinite mercy and assisted by your powerful grace I shall soon arrive at that hour of unspeakable joy. But if it is your will that the spirit shall yet contend with its dust, assist me so to conduct myself through this life as not to render it an enemy.
To this end I place myself in your sacred side and under the mantle of our Lady, my Mother. Let your holy angels surround me and keep me in peace; and let your blessings be upon me.
Elizabeth Ann Seton Servant of God $.25 each
Lord, God, You blessed St. Elizabeth Ann Seton with gifts of grace as wife and mother, educator and foundress, so that she might spend her life in service to Your people. Through her example and prayers may we learn to express our love for You in love for our fellow men and women.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Novena Prayer $.25 each
Oh, God our Father, glorify here upon earth your servant, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, by manifesting the power of her intercession through the favor I now implore (Here mention your intention.)
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen
Prayer Cards
The Sisters of Charity Gift Shop has a large number of Prayer Cards. Please see our listing below. If you are interested in ordering prayer cards, please indicate which one(s) you would like on the order form. Each prayer card is $.20.
- Male Saints
-St. Aloysius
-St. Anthony
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
-St. Dominic
-St. Francis
-St. Francis Xavier
-St. George
-St. Gerard
-St. John Berchman
-St. Joseph
-St. Jude
-St. Martin de Porres
-St. Peregrine
-St. Paul
-St. Raphael
St. Rocco - Female Saints
-St. Anne (Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
-St. Cecilia
-St. Dymphna
-St. Faustina’s Prayer for a Merciful Heart
-St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
-St. Lucy
-St. Theresa of the Little Flower - Novenas
-Novena to Our Lady of Guadelupe
-Novena to Our Lady of Fatima
-Powerful Novena of Childlike Confidence - Prayers
-Prayer to Our Lady of Czestochowa
-Prayer to Our Lady of Medjugorje
-Prayer of St. Aloysius to the Divine Mother
-Prayer to the Mother of Goodness, Love, and Mercy, Queen of Peace
-Prayer for Guidance
-Firefighter’s Prayer
-Prayer for Healing
-Prayer to Padre Pio
-On Your Graduation
-Marriage Prayer
-Remembrance of my First Communion
-Prayer for the Unborn
-Spiritual Armor Prayer
-Prayer of Thanks
-Prayer for World Peace
-Serenity Prayer
-Prayer for forgiveness
-Prayer for wounded shoulder
-Prayer to the Infant Jesus
-Prayer to Jesus Crucified
-Grace Before and After Meals
-I Said a Prayer for you today
-Magnificat
-The Angelus - Angels
-Guardian Angel
-Why God made little girls
-Why God made little boys - Special
-The Chaplet of Devine Mercy
-Consecration of the Sacred Heart
-Face of Jesus
-Heart of the world: Devotion to the infant Jesus
-Mysteries of the Holy Rosary
-Hail Holy Queen
-My Queen, My Mother
-Jesus Christ the King
-Learning Christ
-Holy Family
-Moses
Soon, we will be adding medals to our catalog. We appreciate your patience.