Archive for October 2022
Saints Just Do It — Aspiring to Proclaim Everywhere the Goodness of God
Jesus returned to the disciples after his resurrection bringing peace. With the gift of the Holy Spirit, Jesus made them and their followers instruments of that peace. As we have…
Read MoreReflection on the 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today we find Jesus on the road again and Zacchaeus up a tree. Jesus has come into Jericho — intending, we’re told, to simply pass through the town and continue…
Read MoreThe Spalding Women and Loretto
Loretto numbers among its early students and Sisters several descendants of Benedict Spalding (1746-1815), one of the leaders of the Maryland-to-Kentucky Catholic migration. Benedict’s wife and children accompanied him in…
Read MoreThe Loretto Website: Your Window to Loretto’s World
Welcome! Journey with us this week through a few Loretto web highlights. The entries are about Loretto members and works of mission that are important to us. We are sure…
Read MoreReflection on the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
I had such a mixture of feelings when I first read the readings for today. The first reading says “The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds; it does not…
Read MoreMaribah Departs to Chicago With Blessings
As readers of Interchange know, Maribah has now entered the Inter-Congregational Collaborative Novitiate in Chicago. She visited Loretto locales before making the journey to Chicago. An interesting, attractive, intelligent young…
Read MoreThe church forbids ‘human composting’ at death. But what about ‘green’ burials?
Published by America Magazine Oct. 13, 2022. “So is there a way for Catholics to honor the sacredness of the body in a conservation burial that also honors the sacredness…
Read More‘We Say Their Names’: Loretto Seeks Forgiveness, Reconciliation for Participating in System of Enslavement
God who wishes to work with us and who counts on our cooperation, can also bring good out of the evil we have done. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, #80 Look…
Read MoreReflection on the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Exodus, 2 Timothy, Luke 18 Pray always, we hear today. Be patient and constant, don’t get weary, keep at it, don’t give up, don’t lose heart. These commands or urgings…
Read MoreLoretto at the UN celebrates the 10th annual celebration of the International Day of the Girl
Loretto at the UN co-sponsored the Girls SpeakOut event held at the U.N. yesterday, and it was truly inspirational. This year, in recognition of the existing and growing gaps in…
Read MoreGenerations of Excellence
Published by The Montgomery Independent on Oct 4, 2022 Times are hard…our school is learning to navigate a new normal amid a pandemic. War and civil unrest are too close…
Read MoreLoretto’s Carbon Reduction Fund Helps Support Earth’s Restoration
In “All We Can Save,” Katharine Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson write, “To address our climate emergency, we must rapidly, radically reshape society. We need every solution and every solver.…
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