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Eleanor Craig SL

Exodus 32 1 Timothy 1 Luke 15 This morning’s Gospel tells the story of our confusions about enough. Enough trouble, enough loss, enough yearning, enough resentment. And enough love to…
Read MoreSister Mary Lee Murphy (formerly Sister Marie Dolores Phillips) SL died Aug. 24 at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary. She was 93 and in the 74th year of her life as a…
Read More(Editor’s note: Loretto Co-member Jane Elizabeth Kosters died Aug. 10, 2022, in Denver. She would have turned 80 years old Aug. 17.) Jane Kosters began telling us about herself in…
Read MoreGenesis 18:20-32 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13 Today’s readings are very familiar, and each is rich in multiple meanings and deep, compassionate reassurance. The most familiar reading, of course, is the…
Read MoreLoretto Sister Marian (formerly Sister Marian Joseph) McAvoy died June 30 at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx, Ky., in the company of many of the Community. Marian would have been…
Read MoreLoretto Sister Mary Louise “Billie” Vandover SL, died Sunday morning, June 12, at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx, Ky., in the company of close friends, including Marie Lourde Steckler…
Read MoreActs 2:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 John 14:15-26 This feast of Pentecost is an inflection point. We hear a lot about inflection points, especially in…
Read More“My desire is that this event will allow me to honor Loretto and tell the story of how I encountered and connected with the Loretto Community.” That’s the way Neil…
Read MoreActs 14:21-27 Revelation 21:1-5 John 13:31-35 In today’s passage from John’s Gospel, Jesus is at the Passover table with his disciples. It is his final meal…
Read MoreLoretto Sister Gabriel Mary Hoare died early morning May 1 at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in the company of the nursing staff. Gabe, as she was affectionately known, was 93…
Read MoreRomans 6:3-11 Luke 24:1-12 Blind night surrounds us in our long vigil. We gather in the dusk to recall both the darkness of the womb and the darkness of…
Read MoreGenesis 15:5-18 Philippians 3:20-4:1 Luke 9:28b-36 In these days of war and mounting danger, I find it difficult to know how to pray, for whom and…
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