Archive for July 2022
Remembrance of the Life of Sister Evelyn (formerly Sister Evelyn Marie) Houlihan SL
(Editor’s Note: The following is the autobiography of Sister Evelyn Houlihan SL. It has been slightly edited by Eleanor Craig SL. Sister Evelyn died July 16 at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in…
Read MoreArtists find peace at Nerinx
Published in The Lebanon Enterprise on July 13, 2022 “For most Marion County residents, the property in Nerinx owned by the Sisters of Loretto is just a place for retired…
Read MoreThe Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement
“A land without a people for a people without a land” is a common phrase associated with the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine during the 19th and 20th…
Read MoreLoretto Magazine – Summer 2022
Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Eva Marie Salas SL and Lupe Arciniega SL Buffy Boesen SL, longtime president of Loretto Academy in El Paso, passes the baton…
Read MoreLoretto Heights provides affordable housing
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pancratia Hall has been carefully restored and renovated into affordable housing apartments including a number of three and…
Read MoreLoretto Stands with the Church in Opposing Nuclear Weapons
I Am the Way, the Loretto Constitutions, uses Scriptural passages to guide Loretto’s work. The Old Testament prophet Jerimiah tells us quite plainly, “I know the plans I have in…
Read MoreReflection on the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
We see the long pattern of human behavior and the even longer pattern of God’s invitation in today’s readings. Starting with the Book of Deuteronomy, which was written 700 years…
Read MoreSupreme Court’s Majority Makes it Easier to Carry a Gun
“As a nun, I’m expected to offer thoughts and prayers, and indeed I do. But that’s not enough. We must rise up and take action together to stop this violence.…
Read MoreLoVos come together in support of migrants
Encuentro is Spanish for meeting, gathering, encounter — the act of coming together. For the Loretto Volunteer Program, our experience of encuentro at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso this…
Read MoreBringing Sisters Back Together: Loretto Begins Exhumation of Sisters Buried in Loretto Heights Cemetery
Five years ago, with the announcement of the pending sale of the Loretto Heights campus, Loretto began prayerful and thoughtful research into how the Community could best ensure the perpetual…
Read MoreNasreen Daniel SL is standing tall in Pakistan with the Loretto Community’s support
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women,…
Read MoreReflection on the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Last Sunday and now this Sunday we have been reading from chapters 9 and 10 of Luke’s Gospel. Jesus is aware that his days are numbered. He is heading toward…
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