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Eleanor Craig SL
The Loretto Community has finalized a two-year lease agreement with Seeds by Canela, a non-profit agriculture project in San Elizario, Texas. The agreement is a concrete step toward the reparative…
Loretto Co-member Peg Jacobs died peacefully in the company of her family and Loretto friends as the Community was together in prayer Sunday morning, June 28, 2026. Peg, who was…
Exodus 19:2-6 Romans 5:6-11 Matt 9:36-10:8 This year the Gospel of Matthew had been leading us through the mysteries of life and…
Acts 4:8-12 1 John 3:1-2 John 10:11-18 “Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said, ‘It was in the name of Jesus Christ … that this man … is healed. There…
Sister Katherine Ann Heinz died quietly March 14, 2026, at Loretto Living Center in Nerinx, Ky. She would have celebrated her 79th jubilee April 25, 2026. She was 97 years old…
‘The history of enslavement by Catholic bishops and clergy, by religious communities and by large swaths of the Catholic laity from 1619 through the Civil War is not well known…
Sister Jeanne (formerly Sister Eugenie Marie) Dueber SL died Jan. 25 at Loretto Living Center in the 67th year of her Loretto commitment. Jeanne was 88, a well-respected artist, sculptor and…
Isaiah 8:23-9:3 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 Matthew 4:12-23 This is the third time, the third Sunday, that the Gospel invites us to walk with Jesus at the very beginning of…
Loretto Co-member Mary Louise Murphy died Jan. 13, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. She was 87. Mary Louise Lea Murphy was born in Nashville, Tenn., the oldest of six children of…
Isaiah 11:1-10 Romans 15:4-9 Matthew 3:1-12 The days are getting darker, still, and will for another two weeks. It gives me hope in these…
Loretto Sister Patricia “Pat” (formerly Sister Vincent Marie) Frueh died peacefully Nov. 15 at Loretto Motherhouse, with Loretto Co-member Kitty Madden by her side. Pat was 92 and in the…
Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23 Psalm 90 (91) Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 In today’s first reading, from the beginning of the book of…
