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Sisters of Loretto to recreate the Motherhouse’s founding journey to celebrate campus’ 200th year

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Posted by the Lebanon Enterprise on June 19, 2024 In 1824 the sisters of Loretto made the 8.5-mile journey to found what is now the Loretto Motherhouse. On June 27,…

In celebration of new life for Loretto & newly professed Sister Maribah Ishaq SL!

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

New life. This phrase evokes so many wonderful images of emerging life  — butterflies unfolding from cocoons, seeds sprouting new green life, tulips awakening after a long winter’s sleep. But…

How does our relationship with Earth affect our spirituality? How does our spirituality affect our relationship with Earth?

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you;…

Students celebrate Laudato Si’ Day

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

At Loretto Academy in El Paso, Laudato Si’ Day in March was a fun and educational day for students and teachers. Students created posters focusing on their understanding of environmental…

Jeannine Gramick SL meets with Pope Francis in Rome

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Jeannine Gramick SL and friends from New Ways Ministry, the organization she co-founded to support LGBTQ+ persons, traveled to Rome last October to meet with Pope Francis. Jeannine and the…

A letter from Loretto President Barbara Nicholas SL

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Dear Reader, Greetings on this near-summer day. This season seems to have been a long time coming with its intermittent sunny temperatures followed by snowy afternoons or cloudy mornings. All…

My place in nature: Meeting the sacred through the natural world

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

A Nature Exercise and Prayer Paired with “Earth as Teacher,” Loretto Magazine, Spring/Summer 2024 Choose a place in nature that you will be able to visit each day or each…

Sharing with grateful hearts

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

By Barbara Hagan CoL, Chair, Loretto Hunger Fund Loretto’s Hunger Fund has helped feed the hungry for 50 years. The Stop Hunger Fund, as it was initially called, was established…

Loretto Community members and students bond

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Sister of Loretto and teen cherish their connection This has been a very positive opportunity for conversation with the younger generation. Maria Visse SL meets with St. Mary’s Academy student…

Loretto Magazine and Annual Donor Report – Spring/Summer 2024

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Maribah Ishaq SL and Claudia Calzetta SL A letter from Loretto President Barbara Nicholas SL Greetings on this near-summer day. This season…

Feeding the unfed: Loretto responds to famine in India in the mid-1970s

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Loretto’s Stop Hunger Fund (now simply called the Hunger Fund) financed the nonsectarian Child-in- Need Project for India which fed starving children in two regions following severe drought and crop…

Plantings in honor of loved ones bring new life to the Loretto Motherhouse

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

How might we honor those we love and also bring healing to Earth? A living tribute is a wonderful way to let our love for friends and family members shine.…

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