Archive for May 2020
Reflection on Pentecost Sunday
Recently, in my reading I came across this sentence that caught my attention: We like to think that we base our beliefs on evidence, but far more often we arrange…
Read MoreLoretto Community Enhances Life of All Members
We affirm that the greatest asset of the community is the life of every member. “I Am the Way,” Loretto Constitutions, #25 When we are in one another’s presence we…
Read MoreReflection on the Seventh Sunday of Easter
These days of the Easter season are filled with remarkable events as recorded in the Scriptures. Sister Jeanne Dueber calls these events to our attention through her Stations of Life…
Read MoreReflection on the Feast of the Ascension
In Matthew’s Gospel, in the section of the Gospel right before what we heard a few minutes ago, the women have just told the disciples, the eleven, that Jesus is…
Read MoreRunning Off to the Convent, Part Two
By Susanna Pyatt As Jewel, Pearl, and Ruby Rogers completed their education at Loretto Academy, their secret plans conflicted with the intentions of their father. Frank wanted his daughters to…
Read MoreLoretto Follows Gospel Call of Service to Others Around the World
“As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.” John: 17:18 Loretto serves throughout the United States and in Lahore, Pakistan, with partnerships in Ghana…
Read MoreReflection on the Sixth Sunday of Easter
John 14:15-21 Today’s Gospel takes us right into the heart, the human heart, and the core, the center of Jesus’ message. Jesus is preparing his disciples for his departure, and…
Read MoreReflection on the Fifth Sunday of Easter
These Easter days are so full of energy and life. The disciples are off and running to tell the various communities about Jesus and about The Way. The reading from…
Read MoreRunning Off to the Convent, Part One
By Susanna Pyatt Marcia, the Heritage Center assistant, discovered an intriguing story while processing the personnel files of the three Rogers sisters. Sister Elvira, Sister Benedicta, and Sister Casilda Rogers…
Read MoreLoretto Meets Challenge of Bringing Education and the Gospel to Others
“It has been Loretto’s legacy to inherit from Loretto’s early women a spirit of courage and trust and a willingness to meet the challenge of bringing education and the Gospel…
Read MoreReflection on the Fourth Sunday of Easter
Acts 2:14, 36-41 Psalm 23 (24) 1 Peter 2:20-25 John 10:1-10 Last Sunday we had the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus and how they recognized…
Read MoreBringing the Healing Spirit of God
The following article came from Mary Ann Gleason. It was sent April 4 to Jean Schildz at Jean’s request for submission to The Record, the Catholic newspaper for the Louisville…
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