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Mary Swain SL

Mary Swain SL has been a consultant to the National Religious Retirement Office and has served on the board for the National Association for Treasurers of Religious Institutes. Along with her math background and service to the Loretto Community in the financial area, she has experience as a church organist and plans and prepares materials for Loretto liturgies at Loretto Motherhouse and for special occasions. Mary resides at Loretto Motherhouse, the grounds of which receive her careful tending and loving touch.

Reflection on the Fifth Sunday of Easter

By Mary Swain SL / May 10, 2020 /
A close-up of a cream white quilt with a light blue circle with water lily patterns within and a border of eight red diamond patches surrounding the circle.

These Easter days are so full of energy and life.  The disciples are off and running to tell the various communities about Jesus and about The Way.  The reading from…

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Reflection for the Second Sunday of Lent

By Mary Swain SL / March 8, 2020 /

Matthew 17:1-9 Last Sunday we followed Jesus into the desert.  Jesus was at the beginning of this work he sensed himself called to do.  We were reading from the fourth…

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Reflection: Feast of the Immaculate Conception

By Mary Swain SL / December 9, 2019 /

For a long time it has seemed to me that we here at the Motherhouse think of today’s feast as December 8, a feast of Mary, a jubilee day, long ago…

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Fine Art Shows Feature Talent of Jeanne Dueber

By Mary Swain SL / April 1, 2017 /
Two women smiling with a small silver sculpture at a gallery event inside.

Jeanne Dueber won the Second Place Merit Award Feb. 25 in the Owensboro, Ky., Art Guild’s 55th Juried Exhibition. Forty-nine artists, each with one or two pieces, entered the exhibition.…

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