General Information

Parish Activities Calendar

Ways to Give

Our Online Giving is back!!
You will love the new user friendly site!

Use the attached link https://www.osvhub.com/seas-church/funds to get started!

• Go to My Accounts at the top and enter your information.
• Click on Funds.
• Choose which Fund you would like to donate to.
• Click on Give Now and select the amount (or you can enter a different amount).
• Select One Time or Recurring.
• Click on Continue.
• Select your payment option and Complete.

We are very excited about our new Online Giving portal and hope that you will find it easy to use. If you need assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact the office or OSV at onlinegiving@osv.com or (800) 348-2886.

How much should I give to my parish?

No one outside of your immediate family can decide for you what the right level of giving is. Also, alms giving includes your generosity to the totality of God's family here on earth.

However; rule of thumb for some looking for a guideline has been one hour's wage a week. For those of us working one regular full time job that is about 1/40th of your pay. Some may find this too little or too much, but our situations change throughout life, regular re-evaluation of what you can give is a good way to approach the issue.

Code of Conduct
The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
This applies to:

All Clergy
All Religious
All Seminarians
All Employees
All Volunteers

Volunteer’s Code of Conduct

Our Children are the most important gifts God has entrusted to us. As a volunteer, I promise to strictly follow the rules and guidelines in this Volunteer’s Code of Conduct as a condition of my providing services to the children and youth of The Diocese of Charleston. As a volunteer, I will: treat everyone with respect, loyalty, patience, integrity, courtesy, dignity, and consideration. Avoid situations where I am alone with children, and/or youth at Church activities. Use positive reinforcement rather than criticism, competition, or comparison when working with children and/ youth. Refuse to accept and refrain from giving expensive gifts from children and/or youth and/or their parents without prior written approval from the pastor. Report any suspected abuse to the pastor and appropriate local agencies. Cooperate fully in any investigation of abuse of children and/or youth. As a volunteer, I will not: smoke or use tobacco products in the presence of children and/or youth. Use, possess, or be under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol at any time. Pose any health risk to children and/or youth (i.e., no fevers or other contagious situations). Strike, spank, shake, or slap children and/or youth. Humiliate, ridicule, threaten, or degrade children and/or youth. Touch a child and/or youth in a sexual or other inappropriate manner. Use any discipline that frightens or humiliates children and/or youth. I understand that as a volunteer with children and/or youth, I am required to take the online Virtus training curriculum, and I am subject to a thorough background check including criminal history. I understand that any action inconsistent with this Code of Conduct or failure to take action mandated by this Code of Conduct may result in my removal as a volunteer with children and/or youth.

Here is the link to the Diocese of Charleston Code of Conduct> Code of Conduct - South Carolina Catholic (charlestondiocese.org)

Virtus

Prevention Education (VIRTUS) training is mandatory. You can access your certificates of completion through your VIRTUS account and no longer need to provide them to your local parish or school office. While the local Safe Environment Coordinator is responsible for managing their location’s list of employees and volunteers, IT IS ALL OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO UNDERSTAND AND MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL SAFE ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS.

The Diocese of Charleston will not employ or accept as church personnel anyone who refuses or fails to complete Prevention Education (VIRTUS) Training on the creation of safe environments and the prevention of sexual abuse of minors and/or vulnerable adults.

All church personnel are subject to re-certification of Prevention Education Training every 5 years.

VIRTUS – Instrucciones de registro en línea – Diócesis de Charleston 2024

VIRTUS – Online registration instructions – Diocese of Charleston 2024

NEW USERS: Click here to register with VIRTUS Online or go to virtusonline.org.

Parish Communications

Registered Parishioners receive email in the form of a weekly newsletter from our pastor sent by the parish office. Additionally, we ask that you register with the Flocknote, which will have additional information from ministry coordinators about various parish activities and events. The link to the bulletin below permits the reader to directly read or download the weekly bulletin, as well as to register for an emailed bulletin.

Bulletin

SACRAMENTAL AND PARISH GUIDELINES

NEW PARISHIONERS

Welcome! If you attend here regularly, please register. Registration forms are available in the church foyer or parish office. To avoid problems or misunderstandings, especially when planning baptisms, marriages, requesting sponsorship forms for baptisms or confirmation, or for other special requests, be sure that you are registered and are an active member.

Active Membership

Active Membership is determined by the following criteria:

1. Being properly registered for a sufficient period of time

2. Faithful attendance at Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation.

3. Use of our envelope system (even if you are not able to contribute) as this allows us to identify your active attendance, and also to provide contribution statements for IRS tax purposes. There are many ways to contribute to the parish other than financially by giving of your time and talents. There are many ministries and activities available, one or more of which may appeal to you.

BAPTISM PREPARATION

BAPTISM PREPARATION requires 3 months active membership plus attendance at a pre-baptismal class. Pre-registration is required. Also, 3 months active

membership is required for the issuance of a sponsorship form to be a godparent for Baptism or Confirmation.

All Baptisms will be celebrated on Sundays at 12:45pm after the 11:30am Mass.

MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE requires 6 months active participation plus the 6 months marriage preparation

period required by the diocese.

RECONCILIATION

Please check our home page on this site for up to date schedules, or contact the parish office for an appointment.

VISITATION OF THE SICK

Please advise the office if you are admitted to the hospital or home-bound due to illness and/or age.

RECEPTION OF THE SACRAMENTS

The Sacraments of the Catholic Church are the saving activity of God effected through the ministry of His Church. It is superstition to attribute the effectiveness of sacraments to their mere external performance apart from the interior dispositions they demand of us. If the sacraments are to have their intended effects, we the recipients must be properly disposed to receive them, which ordinarily includes:

1. To have Catholic Faith and be in full communion with the Catholic Church, and

2. For all except Baptism and Confession, to be in the state of sanctifying Grace, i.e., free of the guilt of serious (mortal) sin which has not been previously reconciled via sacramental absolution in integral confession to a priest. This is a most serious requirement, for one who receives the Eucharist (or any other sacrament of the living) “in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the Body and Blood of the Lord.” cf. 1 Cor 11:27-29; CCC n. 1385

ADULT BAPTISM AND THOSE INTERESTED IN

LEARNING ABOUT THE CATHOLIC FAITH

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish invites adults interested in the Catholic Christian Community to enter RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults). This is a process of instruction, prayer, and experience aimed at helping adults grow in the relationship of faith. Please call the parish office for information.

Office Address: 8 Gillin Dr., Simpsonville SC 29680

Office Phone Number: 864-263-3445

Visitors

Visitors are always welcome to worship with us. However, the Catholic Church does not offer open Holy Communion - the Sacraments of the Catholic Church are reserved exclusively for Catholics who are properly disposed to receive them. This is not a lack of Christian hospitality, but merely recognition of real divisions of faith and practice, which unfortunately separate rather than unite Christians in a real Communion of Truth and Life.
Catholic Faith is an expression of the Revealed Word of God communicated as the Deposit of Catholic Faith and Morals, while Holy Communion is the mysterious, yet real, true and substantial Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ communicated sacramentally. Jesus is The Way, The Truth and The Life, and in Him Truth and Life are inseparably One. Therefore in His Mystical Body, the Church, Catholic Faith and Sacrament are morally inseparable.
Non-Catholics and those Catholics who should not receive Holy Communion (including those Catholics married outside the Church and those in need of the Sacrament of Confession) are asked to pray for a spiritual communion with the Lord Jesus and for the unity of His Church.