The Living Center is blessed with dedicated, compassionate staff members. Read about a few of our longtime employees. Missy Bickett came in 1993 out of high school to work in the dietary department under the supervision of Eileen Kersgieter SL.…
Chris Mattingly is director of pastoral care at the Loretto Living Center. There is a piece of belonging for everyone in his program, which he has been continuing to develop since 2018. When engaging with individuals and/or groups, ambiance in…
Anndavid Naeger SL tells the story behind the quilt: Of course the design was the log cabin because of our dwelling places in the early 1800s. When Nancy Miles agreed to help us with the project, she set about the…
Some of us remember the malodorous smells which sometimes drifted in our direction when the nearby Blanford family operated a pig farm. After Loretto bought the house and acreage, the structure was renovated and used as a retreat and vacation…
Sr. Anndavid Naeger wrote this week about the beautiful English Elm tree on the Motherhouse Campus. For many years, Anndavid has written a newsletter called “Our Days at Loretto Motherhouse” for Loretto Community Members. In celebration of all things tree,…
On Dec. 2 at the Loretto Motherhouse L. Kilan Jacobs came carrying the whole life of his Osage history, which he shared with us without any notes. He covered a spellbinding account of centuries of forced moves, broken promises and…
Sister AnnDavid Naeger SL recently moved into one of the new Mariella Apartments at the Loretto Living Center and wrote about her experience. Almost as soon as we heard the first hammer blow delivered by a worker from Rick Everts’…
After the long pandemic-caused delay of two summers, the student volunteers from our three Loretto-connected high schools in St. Louis, Denver and El Paso returned for a week with us. Their days were spent in tasks such as cleaning gravestones,…
After the powerhouse was built in 1921, the coal trucks have lumbered up the entrance hill, dumped the boiler’s sole diet, then rattled down the hill empty. Whether it was late at night or early in the morning when the…
Joyce Minkler has many interests. She has worked tirelessly as a psychotherapist helping people cope with troubling issues in their lives. She lives at 1873 House but often drives around to be a part of local endeavors like New Pioneers…
“We found the large cedar tree in the holler near the Valley House,” said Robbie Lyvers. It had been felled during what then Gov. Steve Beshear had called “the biggest natural disaster in modern Kentucky history — the ice storm…
Some months after my arrival at the Motherhouse in 2002, Sister Anthony Mary Sartorius, who was the Motherhouse Service Coordinator, asked me to write about the many events which take place here, much like the annals which each convent used…