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We are Sisters and Co-members who strive to bring the healing spirit of God into our world.

Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 8/22/2024

By Loretto Community / August 23, 2024 /
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Celebrating Havern & Escuela de Guadalupe: two beloved Denver schools Loretto has long supported

By Loretto Community / August 19, 2024 /
A school staff member walks down the hallway hand in hand with a child wearing a backpack.

To celebrate the long legacy of Loretto education, and in keeping with Back To School Week for many students, we wish to acknowledge the wonderful work being accomplished at Havern…

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Ag Bash Smash!

By Loretto Community / August 14, 2024 /
From left, an older woman with grey hair, glasses and a green t-shirt stands smiling with a young woman with brown curly hair wearing a blue tank top and jean overalls. They are standing together in front of a sign that says "new pioneers for a sustainable future."

Over 400 children and grown-ups showed up at Loretto Motherhouse on Saturday, Aug. 3, to play in the corn, soybean and wheat boxes (no sand here), pet the four-day-old chicks…

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Imagine yourself here at Loretto Retreat Centers

By Loretto Community / August 12, 2024 /
Yellow flowers in the foreground frame a white statue of the Virgin Mary standing in the middle of a lake.

“Once we start to think about the kind of world we are leaving to future generations, we look at things differently; we realize that the world is a gift which…

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Let Us Not Forget, Let Us Remember

By Loretto Community / August 7, 2024 /

On Aug. 6, 2024, the Loretto Peace Committee held a beautiful prayerful remembrance Zoom to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. You can watch the recording below.

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Loretto art education: bringing ‘the healing spirit of God into our world’

By Loretto Community / August 6, 2024 /
Collage of art done by students of Roberta Hudlow SL. Paintings, drawings, pencil sketches, paper dolls, chalk drawings and photography

The Sisters and Co-members of Loretto “strive to bring the healing spirit of God into our world.“ As our readers know, there are many ways Loretto hopes to do this.…

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Remembrance of the Life of Dorothy Ortner CoL

By Loretto Community / August 4, 2024 /

Loretto Co-member Dorothy Ortner died just before midnight Aug. 4 at Loretto Living Center in Nerinx, Ky. Several Community members gathered to send her on her way.  Dorothy was part…

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A New Partnership for Loretto at the UN

By Loretto Community / August 1, 2024 /
A rainbow circle donut hole type logo with the words "Forging Global Partnerships among Sisters... Sisters Rising Worldwide as a Tool to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Sisters Rising Worldwide, so all may flourish! Beth Blissman PhD, United Nations Representative, Loretto Community" around it.

Loretto at the UN is happy to announce an inspiring new partnership with the global organization Sisters Rising Worldwide (SRW). SRW is a relatively new nonprofit making it possible for sisters to overcome…

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Community joins Sisters of Loretto in Seeking Home Walk

By Loretto Community / August 1, 2024 /

Published by the Paxton Media Group on July 3, 2024 Celebrating its 200th year at the current Motherhouse location, last Thursday the Sisters of Loretto joined with more than 100…

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Archives conducts reframing project of artifact collection, plans to target over 180 items

By Loretto Community / August 1, 2024 /

Published by the Lebanon Enterprise, July 31, 2024 After receiving funding for the project earlier in the year, members of the Loretto Heritage Center stated that the effort to reframe…

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Loretto’s Midweek Mission Message: Mission focused and issue driven

By Loretto Community / July 29, 2024 /
An older woman with white hair stands in the doorway of a shed holding a broom looking at the camera.

This week Loretto’s Facebook page will feature posts from Loretto’s “Midweek Mission Message.” Midweek Mission Message, or MMM for short, is a weekly email series that highlights various mission focuses…

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Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 7/26/2024

By Loretto Community / July 26, 2024 /
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