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Eleanor Craig SL
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Genesis 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…
Mary Lou Gomez-Leon was born May 3, 1927, to Laurencia Aizpuru and Ignacio Gomez-Leon. She was the older sister of Ignacio (Nacho) and Eddie. Mary Lou’s passions were her family, friends…
Imagine having an income of $1000 a day and an inclination to be helpful to the most neglected communities of people. What would you do with your money? In 1885,…
Jeremiah 1:1-19 Psalm 71: 1-17 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Luke 4:21:30 This morning’s Gospel reading from Luke follows directly from last Sunday’s reading. And the two together bring to completion Luke’s…
