Archive for November 2022
The Sisters of Loretto Share a Kinship With the Earth
An anthropologist looks to a religious community of women in rural Kentucky for scientifically informed lessons in land stewardship. Could they be a model for activists and policymakers to move…
Read MoreReflection on the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
I recall when I was in fourth or fifth grade saying goodbye to my friends because the world was supposed to end the next day. None of us took it…
Read MoreHonoring Veterans
About 10 years ago Paulette Peterson, who directed the Queens Vet Center for combat veterans, asked me if I said anything to my two veteran brothers on Veterans Day. It was a…
Read MoreSing Alleluia to Our God!: Loretto Natural Burial Practices
Gain souls, draw souls, court souls, shelter souls. I Am the Way, the Constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto,p. 2 What is a green, or natural, burial? A green or…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Evelyn Donohoo CoL
Loretto Co-member Evelyn Donohoo died Nov. 6 in St. Louis, just three months short of her 100th birthday and in the 29th year of her Loretto life. She made every…
Read MoreReflection on the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
That first reading needs to be finished. The fifth and sixth sons refuse to eat pork and are tortured and killed. Then the mother is threatened with torture if she…
Read MoreShenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project Held a Solar Picnic – 10/28/2022
The Loretto Carbon Reduction Fund is excited to highlight a recent grant recipient: the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project (SVBHP). On Friday, October 28, supporters of the Shenandoah Valley Black…
Read MoreSanta Fe: The Land of Our Lady of Light
Mother Magdalen Hayden had a devotion to Our Lady of Light. Whether that’s why the school in Santa Fe, NM, was so named, we don’t know. We do know that…
Read MoreHow COVID-19 impacted congregations with retreat centers
Published by Global Sisters Report on October 31, 2022 “Global Sisters Report asked congregations in the United States, Canada and Ireland about their retreat centers and how they were affected…
Read MoreWhat is Emerging?
A continuation of the discussion inspired by Ilia Delio taken from LCWR’s “Occasional Papers,” Summer 2012. Last month we were reminded by Ilia that we are living in an expanding…
Read MoreLoretto Celebrates Newest Co-Member Allison Grace Lemons
Celebrations of an individual’s acceptance into the Loretto Community as a Loretto co-member are always a moving reminder of the deep values and cherished community to which many of us…
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