Archive for December 2022
Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle Newsletter – 12/28/2022
Coloradans donate more than 30,000 items for migrants, nonprofit says
Published on Denver 7, December 20, 2022 Loretto co-member Mary Helen Sandoval was featured in a news report broadcast December 20, 2022, on Denver 7, the ABC-affiliated TV station in…
Read MoreHappy Kwanzaa and Happy New Year from Loretto!
Loretto honors the African and African–American communities as the celebration of Kwanzaa begins. This seven-day festival takes place each year Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. Kwanzaa is a Swahili term…
Read More“On the twelfth day of Christmas…”
Happy holidays from the Loretto Heritage Center staff! To celebrate the season, we posted photos for the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” to our Facebook page. All of the…
Read MoreChristmas Wishes from Loretto in Pakistan
Reflection on the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)
It has happened to each of us, that day we were born. There we were, as was Jesus so long ago. Like each of us, beginning our time on this…
Read MoreRemembrance of the Life of Mary Anne Reese CoL
Loretto Co-member Mary Anne Reese, 66, died Dec. 20, 2022, at University of Louisville-Jewish Hospital after several months of illness. She had moved Oct. 13, 2022, from Cincinnati to the…
Read MoreQ & A with Allen Carl Larson, publicizing letters between Conrad N. Hilton and two Loretto Sisters
Published by Global Sisters Report, December 13, 2022 Allen Carl Larson, a professor emeritus of music at Webster University in St. Louis, has long been engaged with a project to…
Read MoreChristmas blessings from Loretto!
The O Antiphons, proclamations of the prophets of Israel, bring Advent to a close, lead us to God and tell us the names of God as told through the Old…
Read MoreReflection on the Fourth Sunday of Advent
The readings today talk about things that we are familiar with and that are an integral part of Christmas. They are the parts of our faith that we need in…
Read MoreLoretto Shines Light on Former Loretto Volunteers This Advent
Advent is an invitation time. We are invited to take time during these winter days to see where we are. We are not talking about Christmas shopping! We are talking…
Read MoreReflection on the Third Sunday of Advent
Rejoice! Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say rejoice! Every word of today’s readings tells us to rejoice because our feet are firmly planted in the goodness of God’s…
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