Archive for March 2024
Reflection on the Fourth Sunday of Lent
There are some lessons to be learned from the man blind from birth. His healing allows us to look at both the physical aspects of light in relation to sight,…
Read MoreReflections from the Lenten Prayer Service for Peace
Last week, Feb. 28, the Motherhouse Community and friends organized a public prayer service in front of Senator Mitch McConnell’s office. Here are photos, quotes and press from the event.…
Read MorePublic Lenten prayer service held in Louisville for Peace in Palestine, Israel
Published by the Courier Journal on February 28, 2024 More than 50 people came to the Federal Courthouse for a Lenten Prayer for Peace in Palestine and Israel on Wednesday,…
Read MoreLoretto Heritage Center’s 1st Family History Day draws crowd
Written by David Neri and published by The Lebanon Enterprise on February 28, 2024 For many of the people who spoke at last Saturday’s Family History Day at the Loretto…
Read MoreCo-member Barbara Wander’s Latest Report on Haiti
Barbara Wander is a Loretto co-member who has been working with the Little Sisters of St. Therese in Haiti for many years. Click here to read the March 2024 issue…
Read MoreRead all about it! Loretto Magazine, Winter 2024 issue now out!
Loretto Magazine’s winter edition is now available! Your heart will be stirred by the Loretto Justice Fellows, women who provide service hours to local community organizations while studying in the…
Read MoreReflection on the Third Sunday of Lent
We have two complete accounts here today, the recitation of the commandments and the cleansing of the temple. They are each so familiar and so solidly constructed that I had…
Read MoreCarbon reduction award goes to Haiti
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a socioeconomic condition plagued by political instability. Loretto’s Carbon Reduction Fund awarded $500 to the Association of Peasants of Fondwa…
Read MoreLoretto Link meeting a success
The Loretto Link meeting in St. Louis in January, the second in-person meeting since Link’s inception five-plus years ago, was a rousing success! One of the highlights was a presentation…
Read MoreA lifelong dream comes true
It was Aug. 15, 1980, and a novice was pronouncing her first vows at Loretto Motherhouse as so many had done before her, except … the ceremony was held in…
Read MoreWhat is Emerging?
At the Link gathering in St. Louis, Jean East opened one of the sessions with this quote: “Loretto Link is engaging in emergence … which is being in right relationship…
Read MoreThe early: Grassroots desegregation at Webster College
As part of my Loretto Roots research in the spring of 2022, I read Professor Shannen Dee Williams’s new book, “Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American…
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