Blood Drive 12/1/2023

Seton Catholic High School participated in the Dayton Donor Blood Drive. During this blood drive staff, students, and community members participate in donating. High schools and colleges make up 25% of total blood supply. Donating blood can save up to three lives. One in seven people entering a hospital needs blood. Seton Catholic offers multiple opportunities to donate blood during the school year. If a student donates blood three times or more during their high school career they will receive a red cord for graduation. "I enjoy donating blood because it is cool that it saves up to three lives," Jack Fraley says. Jack has donated blood a total of five times since he turned 16.

Seton Catholic will hold another blood drive on February 7th, 2024. When you get the chance to donate blood you should always take it. When donating there are some requirements you must follow. For example, if you are 16 you can donate with parental consent. Once you turn 17 you do not need parental consent but you need to have a valid form of identification. You need to be in good health and meet certain weight requirements and wait 56 days since you last donated. You can register for the next blood drive by going to https://www.donortime.com/donor/auth/signin_landing or e-mailing jmatthews@setoncatholics.org to reserve your time slot.

Senior Slay: Mason Harvey

This week's Senior Slay is Mason Harvey. Mason has attended Seton since preschool. Mason has participated in basketball all four years and baseball for one year. Mason plans to attend college and play basketball. His favorite class during high school was Mr. Parker's gym class. Mason's favorite moment was winning basketball sectionals freshman year. A fun fact about Mason is that when he was born he was only 4lbs. Mason's advice for younger students is to never get too stressed out. His most Slay moment of high school was hitting the game winning shot in sectionals freshman year.

Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. To become the mother of the Savior, Mary was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role. The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as full of grace. In fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free assent of her faith to the announcement of her vocation, it was necessary that she be wholly born by God's grace. Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin." We celebrate this feast day on December 8 every year.