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Students volunteer at Loretto Motherhouse

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /
Two older Sisters with white hair take a photo with another adult and three students as they take a break from gardening.

On June 1, students from Loretto-associated schools — Loretto Academy in El Paso, Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis and St. Mary’s Academy in Denver — arrived to spend…

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Summer at Loretto Motherhouse brims with community activities

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /
Many children in adults in brightly colored clothing are seen sitting on top of a hay wagon as they are about to take a tour of a farm on a sunny day.

In addition to the Seeking Home procession in June and an important Assembly, this summer saw Loretto visitors engaging in numerous family activities. These included Family Fun Day, the Heritage…

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Bringing running water to a Kentucky family

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /
An older white woman with grey hair and round framed glasses, a striped pink shirt and beige pants smiles in a newly constructed and completed bathroom.

A dad and his two daughters, ages 11 and 14, living a short distance from Loretto Motherhouse were hauling water to their home month after month. Judy Popp SL, who…

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‘Upon This Hill’ – Poem by Cecily Jones SL

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

From “Mostly for Promise: Poems by Cecily Jones SL,” published 2013 Reflections of Isabella Clarke on the Sisters’ Transfer from Little Loretto to St. Stephen’s Farm, November 1824 After the…

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Unforeseen uprooting 200 years ago led the Sisters of Loretto home

By Loretto Community / September 17, 2024 /
A white haired senior smiling softly at the camera as she sits in front of a window on a sunny green day.

In 1824, the Sisters of Loretto were forced to move from their home of the past 12 years to the current location of the Loretto Motherhouse 9 miles up the…

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Donna Mattingly SL

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

I grew up on a small farm in rural Central Kentucky near the Sisters of Loretto Motherhouse. The area is also known as Kentucky’s Holy Land. Before I entered Loretto…

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Congratulations to all Loretto’s outgoing & newly elected Leadership!

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /
A happy group of women smiling together at a Loretto Community gathering, all wearing a variety of different colors and patterns.

The government of the Sisters of Loretto and the spirit of the Loretto Community is designed to foster the Community’s faith life and mission. Each member “has the responsibility to…

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Maribah Ishaq SL

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

My name is Maribah Ishaq from Pakistan. I have been with the Sisters of Loretto since March 2020. Before coming to the convent, I was a teacher and taught English,…

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The Rev. Marty Lally CoL

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

A native of Denver, I am a second-generation graduate of Holy Family High School, originally staffed by the Sisters of Loretto. My family and I have known Loretto for many…

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Cathy Smith SL

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

I was born in Kansas City, Mo., and lived there until I was 4. Then we moved 63 miles away to Topeka, Kan., where we stayed until 1976, then returned…

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Kathy Wright SL

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

I was born in Washington, D.C., and traveled west from there to Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Texas and a few other places. After graduation from Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Mo.,…

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Mary Beth “Buffy” Boesen SL, President

By Loretto Community / September 16, 2024 /

One of the first things people ask when I meet them is “Is Buffy your real name?” The answer is long but I repeat it willingly and happily because I…

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