Loretto community members support one anothers’ work — by volunteering, by listening and sending letters of support, by contributing money, and by prayer.
The work changes us. It stretches us, enlarges our minds, deepens our understanding of community and mission and the needs of the world. During this jubilee year, a celebration of 200 years of work, we reflect together on some of our works, praying together and rejoicing as what we see, what is accomplished and what is attempted. Only if we keep growing ourselves can we grow as a community that continues into the future.
Loretto invites visitors to join us in support of our works. We invite you to Casa Materna, co-founded by Loretto co-member Kitty Madden.
The mission of the Casa Materna is to work toward the reduction of maternal and infant death in rural Matagalpa (Nicaragua) communities by providing services for low income mothers with high-risk pregnancies. Casa Materna Mary Ann Jackman provides round the clock prenatal and postpartum care to over 850 mothers annually. Since October of 1991, 15,500 mothers have been served in the Casa.
Please learn more about their mission at www.casamaterna.org – and join us in prayer:
Loving God, Mother and Father, we thank you for the gift of new life
being daily nurtured with the wombs of all pregnant mothers of the world.
Help us to remember the many mothers who are malnourished
and too often lack the basic health care needed to ensure safe birthing.
We remember, too, our pregnant sisters in situations of war or other violence
and those living in the aftermath of natural disasters.
As we pray for mothers with high-risk pregnancies,
we ask your blessings on the health workers called to care for them.
We remember the work of midwives throughout the world,
especially those who serve the rural poor.
Be with them and with all of us,
as we reach out in prayer and action to all mothers of the world.
We thank you for the precious gift of life you continue to give us each day.
Amen.
Loretto co-member Kitty Madden leads exercises with the women at Casa Materna
