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 embrace all those losses, yearnings, resentments. Love enough to celebrate…
Sister 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 Sister of Loretto. Mary Lee Murphy has left us a…
(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 her 1975 application for Loretto comembership: “I am second oldest of…
Genesis 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 Gospel, which introduces the prayer Jesus taught his disciples, a…
Loretto 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 95 on July 15 and was in the 71st year…
Loretto 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 SL and Cathy Smith SL. Billie, 85, had just celebrated the 60th…
Acts 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 the news about mass shootings. We’ve just had two 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 Tucker began his co-membership celebration in Kansas City, Mo., on…
Acts 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 with them, and he says to them, “I give you…
Loretto 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 and had just celebrated the 70th year of her Loretto…
Recent calls for Loretto to do something to meet the urgent need for low-income housing sparked me, as Loretto’s historian, to review Loretto’s contributions to housing for low-income elders and families. Even in Loretto’s earliest days on the Kentucky frontier,…
Romans 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 the tomb. This long night’s wait seems to be without…