Archive for August 2022
Remembrance of the Life of Jane Elizabeth Kosters CoL
(Editor’s note: Loretto Co-member Jane Elizabeth Kosters died Aug. 10, 2022, in Denver. She would have turned 80 years old Aug. 17.) Jane Kosters began telling us about herself in…
Read MoreHiroshima: A Peace Committee Call for a Community Read
In 1946 The New Yorker devoted an entire edition to publishing John Hersey’s “Hiroshima.” Hersey reported on six residents. They were there in the city and, by turns of fate,…
Read MoreIn Praise of Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary: All Are Welcome!
Our Sisters came to this holy place. We have been led to this holy space. The Spirit, their spirits are here. From “The Journey,” lyrics and music by Mary Alma…
Read MoreReflection on the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wisdom 18:6-9 Hebrews 11-12 Luke 12:32-48 In today’s Gospel, Luke’s audience is concerned about how they will provide for themselves for the long haul, about whether or not the claims…
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Nukes
August 6 marks the 77th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima by the United States. According to Alliance for Science, “A total of 140,000 people in Hiroshima and…
Read More‘Gentlemen, if you take the house, you will have to take the sisters also!’
With the discovery of gold on the banks of Cherry Creek in Denver in 1864, the Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe, N.M., were asked by Father Joseph Projectus Machebeuf…
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