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Loretto Supports National Farm Workers Ministry

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2017 /

By Roxanne Monterastelli Carolyn Jarmillo and Rox Monterastelli represented the Latin America Caribbean Committee at the National Farm Workers Ministry winter board meeting in January at FIRM, Fresno (Calif.) Interdenominational…

Maureen McCormack Offers Her Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2017 /

By Maureen McCormack As I think about the topic of interfaith dialogue, I realize that most of us grew up in one faith or no faith tradition. Some were part…

Loretto Turns Out for Women’s Rights: A Time for Reflections

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2017 /

                By Lillian Moskeland Families, husbands, co-members and vowed members of Loretto gathered around the nation to stand for women’s rights. Ninety-six years…

Jubilee Reflection: A Little Story About a Lifetime Commitment

By Loretto Community / February 2, 2017 /

By Kim Klein Here is a little summary of what I hope I said at my Jubilee after telling the story of meeting Loretto through Vicki Quatmann and making my…

Colleagues & Friends Celebrate Mary Catherine Rabbitt’s Retirement

By Loretto Community / February 2, 2017 /

By Vicki Schwartz With more than 70 professional and personal friends, Mary Catherine Rabbitt celebrated her retirement from Disability Law Colorado Dec. 15, 2016. Testimonials were given by her agency…

A Reflection: ‘In the Company of Seekers and Saints’

By Patricia Geier CoL / February 1, 2017 /

In the wee hours of a sleepless morning, I couldn’t help but think of the opening lines from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times,…

Colleagues & Friends Celebrate Mary Catherine Rabbitt’s Retirement

By Vicki Schwartz SL / February 1, 2017 /

With more than 70 professional and personal friends, Mary Catherine Rabbitt celebrated her retirement from Disability Law Colorado Dec. 15, 2016. Testimonials were given by her agency colleagues. Jon Asher,…

Fifth Intercommunity Collaborative Leadership Development Program Will Begin This Year

By Maureen O'Connell SL / February 1, 2017 /

“Far and away, the CLDP program has been the best professional and personal development program I have ever engaged in. Not only has it allowed me to more fully understand…

Jubilee Reflection: A Little Story About a Lifetime Commitment

By Kim Klein CoL / February 1, 2017 /

Here is a little summary of what I hope I said at my Jubilee after telling the story of meeting Loretto through Vicki Quatmann and making my commitment at Jeannine…

Ritual Honors Closing of St. Louis Center

By Donna Day SL / February 1, 2017 /

It is true…. Community happened here… mission happened here… hospitality happened here… love happened here. “It is true — the doors of the past, which opened onto their own special…

A Message of Thanks from the Children’s Peace Theatre

By Loretto Community / February 1, 2017 /

By Marcella Hannon Shields In the spring of 1997, my husband, Eldon Shields, and I were notified that we needed to move the Centre for Creative Ministries, which we had…

Topical: Gift of Trust

By Donna Day SL / February 1, 2017 /

“What we have to be is what we are. But being what we are requires love, gratitude, forgiveness, trust and living with the mystery that surrounds us in community. They…

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