Archive for June 2021
Loretto Circles Offer Welcoming Way To Get To Know Loretto
Circles are easily seen in pizzas and bicycle wheels, even birthday cakes! Circle images are in prose and poetry and in all kinds of other imagery. Through the years Loretto…
Read MoreReflection on the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
I’m sure many of you are familiar, to some degree, with Sister Wendy Beckett, the Roman Catholic nun from England who gained popularity on the BBC and PBS for her…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Sister Sylvia Ginder SL
In early March of 1970, Sister Sylvia Ginder wrote to Sister Mary Luke Tobin, then completing her 12 years as the General Superior of the Sisters of Loretto. Sylvia’s letter is…
Read MoreRead the latest issue of the Loretto Circle Newsletter – 6/25/2021
Loretto Co-members: Truly Our Blessing!
“Love one another. Have only one heart, one soul and one mind.” Traditional prayer of Loretto’s priest founder Father Charles Nerinckx Many Loretto members remember the Loretto Gathering held in…
Read MoreReflection on the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
When I went to El Paso in 1969 to teach English and religion at Loretto Academy, I was qualified to teach English, but didn’t share Matthew Marie’s optimism that I…
Read MoreSisters of Loretto: United in Spirit!
Almost every young Catholic girl at some point early on in her life thinks about becoming a nun. Usually, it’s because of meeting Sisters who teach them or who work…
Read MoreReflection on the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ezekiel 17, 2 Corinthians 5, Mark 4 Today’s readings seem like they might have been perfectly designed for us here at Loretto Motherhouse today. The first reading, from the Prophet…
Read MoreReflection on the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Exodus 24:3-8. Hebrews 9:11-15. Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 Last Sunday Eileen Custy introduced her reflections saying, “The God I grew up with is not the God I know now, and I suspect…
Read MoreTo Listen and Learn: Loretto Confronts Racism
From the founding of Loretto in 1812 to today, Loretto has sought to live out the meaning of these words, “We strive to bring the healing Spirit of God into…
Read MoreWhat is Emerging?
Perhaps one of the most important lessons learned, or, re-learned, from the COVID-19 experience is that we are all one: one with all of humanity, all of creation and the…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Eileen Wirtz CoL
Loretto Co-member Eileen Loretto Wirtz passed away peacefully on June 1, 2021, in Overland Park, Kan. In the 14th year of her Loretto commitment, she was capping a lifetime as a high school…
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