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Loretto Land Justice
From Land to Property: Origins of Loretto Motherhouse, Kansas and Texas properties Eastern Continent 1. 1765 Treaty of Fort Stanwix-Motherhouse 2. Henderson’s Purchase 1775-Motherhouse 3. Declaration & Totems Southwestern Continent – San Elizario, Tx. 1. Peoples with claim to San…
Sisters of Loretto to recreate the Motherhouse’s founding journey to celebrate campus’ 200th year
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 the location’s 200th year, members of the…
In celebration of new life for Loretto & newly professed Sister Maribah Ishaq SL!
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 today, when Loretto thinks about new life, the Community’s witness…
How does our relationship with Earth affect our spirituality? How does our spirituality affect our relationship with Earth?
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; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.In…
Students celebrate Laudato Si’ Day
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 challenges and possible solutions. The posters here represent four classes…
Jeannine Gramick SL meets with Pope Francis in Rome
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 pope had been corresponding for some time, and he had…
A letter from Loretto President Barbara Nicholas SL
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 the while, our editor and authors and photographers have been…
My place in nature: Meeting the sacred through the natural world
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 week. This could be an area of a local park…
Sharing with grateful hearts
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 in 1974 in response to worldwide hunger, especially in India,…
Loretto Community members and students bond
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 Nastasia St. Amor Joan of Arc Rivas online. The weekly…
Feeding the unfed: Loretto responds to famine in India in the mid-1970s
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 failure. Loretto worked with Catholic Relief Services which identified the…