Archive for November 2025
Remembrance of the Life of the Rev. Barbara Beam CoL
Loretto Co-member the Rev. Barbara Beam died Nov. 7, 2025, at the age of 84. Barbara had been received into Loretto in 1959. She became a Loretto Co-member in 2008.…
Read MoreLoretto Motherhouse Farm to Table Dinner
By Angela Rakes The First Annual Loretto Motherhouse Farm to Table Dinner in the Old Tobacco Barn was a roaring success. The 104 available tickets sold out within just a…
Read MoreRemembering Loretto’s saints and holy souls
“There’s a great day coming by and by,” goes a line in an old familiar Black spiritual hymn. (“There’s a Great Day Coming,” words and music by Will L. Thompson,…
Read MoreReflection on the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day)
When I was in the seminary taking homiletics, our professor told us that our listeners would likely not remember everything we said in a homily and so he advised that…
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