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Joy Jensen SL

Joy is a vowed member, and she resides in the Motherhouse infirmary. Previously, Joy was a community organizer in St. Louis at St. Alphonsus Liguori “The Rock” Church, a historic Catholic church with a predominately African-American faith community. She also did some teaching at St. Louis University after receiving her doctorate. She enjoys reading American history and spy thrillers. Joy also enjoys knitting.
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A natural flyway for neotropical migratory birds

By Joy Jensen SL / June 23, 2025 /

Did you ever spot a Kentucky warbler or a yellow-breasted chat? They fly freely in the Loretto Motherhouse forests. They are neotropical migratory birds protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty…

Global Village Children’s Project receives Carbon Reduction Fund grant

By Joy Jensen SL / June 1, 2024 /

The Loretto Community Carbon Reduction Fund granted $800 to the Global Village Children’s Project in Uganda in 2023. The Project had tapped a Nile River tributary, which never dries up,…

Carbon reduction award goes to Haiti

By Joy Jensen SL / March 1, 2024 /

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a socioeconomic condition plagued by political instability. Loretto’s Carbon Reduction Fund awarded $500 to the Association of Peasants of Fondwa…

Why contemplation?

By Joy Jensen SL / October 1, 2023 /

The mystic sits for the universe. William Johnston The tenets of democracy are under attack. There are groups running over democracy or trying to hijack it. Fundamental freedoms are under…

Spotlight on Loretto Wisdom Women – June 2023

By Joy Jensen SL / June 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. This…

Spotlight on Loretto Wisdom Women

By Joy Jensen SL / May 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. April…

Spotlight on Loretto wisdom women – April 2023

By Joy Jensen SL / April 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. Today…

Spotlight on Loretto wisdom women

By Joy Jensen SL / March 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. The…

Spotlight on Loretto wisdom women

By Joy Jensen SL / February 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: In the coming months interviews of Loretto Community elders will be featured in Interchange. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots…

Deep Incarnation

By Joy Jensen SL / February 1, 2022 /

Standing in the creek water of Coleman’s run, Susan Classen, during her videotaped Assembly 2021 presentation, reminded us that Loretto land is millions of years old. Loretto land has evolved…

Anchoresses in the Infirmary: Life During the Pandemic

By Joy Jensen SL / May 1, 2021 /

In March 2020, life changed for us residents of the infirmary. In medieval England anchorites and anchoresses lived alone in stone cells attached to a church and had the mission…

1835 Loretto Female Academy

By Joy Jensen SL / March 1, 2021 /

Charles Nerinckx set a high standard in education for the Sisters of Loretto. His “progressive spirit animated the Sisters, and foreseeing that more than primary branches would be called for…

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