Weaving a collection of memorable magazine columns, John Clark has a heartwarming reflection on family, beginnings, and possible destinations.
Read More »Seton and the Real Presence in My Life
Seton's new director of Guidance and Records shares the story of the miracle that changed his family forever and the part that Seton played.
Read More »Seton Book Reports – A Simple System to Build Better Writers
The new Seton Book Report Workbook is key to mastering reading comprehension skills, thinking and analysis skills, and composition and mechanics skills.
Read More »My 10 Favorite Quotes From A Christmas Carol
In reading Charles Dickens' famous story, "A Christmas Carol," John Clark discovered that not only had it aged well, but became more relevant than ever.
Read More »The 2015 Seton High School Short Story Contest
We are announcing a 2015 Catholic short story contest for our high school students!
Read More »Toys & Tributes: Why the Old & Young Need Each Other
by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian | In the story an old home that dates from several hundred years ago lies in a state of neglect and in need of repair.
Read More »The Foolish Magi: Silly Gifts, Serious Sacrifices & True Love
This famous short story that often appears in Christmas anthologies perfectly captures the Christian ideal of the joy of giving and the virtue of poverty of spirit. A young husband ...
Read More »Living “The Little Way”: Refined by Love
How easy it is to neglect these amenities of manners that consist of attention to seemingly minor things of no consequence: a thank you note, a compliment, a visit. How convenient it is to use the excuse of busyness with important affairs to avoid attention to small details.
Read More »Good Character, Will Power and a Flying Trunk
In the story the merchant’s son who wasted his money finds himself in desperate circumstances until a friend gives him a magical flying trunk. When he flies with it and descends from the sky, he introduces himself as a Turkish god who has come from above to marry the king’s daughter. Honored with this privilege, the king gladly agrees to the marriage: “Yes, you shall certainly marry our daughter.”
Read More »God’s Little Flower Cactus: A Harder Path to Holiness
Unlike lovely flowers in gardens, which require constant tending, “gentle dew,” and “spring breezes,” the cactus has a much stronger constitution, for it does not need these things in order to survive and thrive. Because of the toughness of the cactus, it is able to take root and flourish in an environment where nothing can grow without a struggle.
Read More »Spontaneity: Transfiguring the World Through a Compliment
In O. Henry’s short story “The Social Triangle,” Ikey Snigglefritz, a simple tailor’s apprentice, receives his week’s wages and on his way home enters the Café Maginnis. There he accidentally ...
Read More »The Little Way at Seton
Many Seton graduates choose to include their Confirmation names on the diplomas. By a wide margin, the most popular patron among Seton’s young women is St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the ...
Read More »Love Story
Whether it comes in the persons of Odysseus and Penelope, Romeo and Juliet, or Jamal and Latika, from the ancient Greeks to modern times, every society has glamorized love stories. ...
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