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St. Elizabeth's LibraryA Catholic Lending Library in Portland, Maine -
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About the Library
The Portland Catholic Center for Faith will begin a new initiative of a lending library for children and teens. The library will be located in the Guild Hall (307 Congress St., Portland) and will serve as a place where people can visit for open reading hours and borrow books that offer a window into the richness of the Catholic faith. We hope for St. Elizabeth's library to open as an operational lending library in the spring of 2025. Please see below how you can be involved in helping us launch this library and sign up to receive updates!
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Book Donations
We will begin accepting book donation in January 2025. New and used books will be accepted. We count on generous donations to serve many children and youth in Portland and the greater Portland area. You will find an Amazon Wishlist button on the side of books we are requesting for the library. Local stores, such as The Abbey in Scarborough also have a great selection of books. Some other Catholic book websites include TAN, Sophia Press, and Ignatius Press.
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Our Patron Saint: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
The library is under the patronage of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, a Catholic religious sister and educator. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was born in NY in 1774. She married and had five children before the death of her husband. She converted to Catholicism in 1805, two years after his death. She would go on to establish the first Catholic girls' school in the U.S and founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity.
There is a relic of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in the altar of our Cathedral.We pray for her intercession in the work to pass on the Catholic faith and instill the love of Christ through literature.
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