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Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter – 6/24/2024

By Loretto Community / June 28, 2024 /
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Loretto Land Justice

By Loretto Community / June 28, 2024 /

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…

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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Review

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / June 26, 2024 /
A Sadakao statue: a young girl with a pony tail holding up a book with a bird emerging from the open book, and a plain white wall background.

The Loretto Peace Committee decided last August to promote Eleanor Coerr’s historical novel for children about an 11-year-old named Sadako. Sadako [Sa da’ ko] is a healthy girl, a runner on the middle school track team,…

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Sisters of Loretto to recreate the Motherhouse’s founding journey to celebrate campus’ 200th year

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

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,…

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In celebration of new life for Loretto & newly professed Sister Maribah Ishaq SL!

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
An older woman in white looks on as a younger woman with dark hair and traditional Pakistani clothing signs a document on an altar.

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…

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Awake with love for one another and for Earth

By JoAnn Gates / June 24, 2024 /
8 women standing above, smiling, and looking down at a camera facing the sky underneath a big tree.

Our care for one another and our care for the earth are intimately bound together. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ How does my spirituality influence my way of living on Earth?…

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How does our relationship with Earth affect our spirituality? How does our spirituality affect our relationship with Earth?

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
A circular photo of the earth from space with the text "We live in complete dependence upon an inescapably interconnected world..." wrapped around it.

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;…

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Students celebrate Laudato Si’ Day

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
A mostly black and white poster that says "Loretto Mission Possible"

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…

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Jeannine Gramick SL meets with Pope Francis in Rome

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
A photo of the Pope with a religious sister in habit standing next to him smiling.

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…

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A letter from Loretto President Barbara Nicholas SL

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
Head shot of Sr. Barbara Nicholas taken outside on a sunny day.

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…

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My place in nature: Meeting the sacred through the natural world

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

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…

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Sharing with grateful hearts

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
Three older women are pictured standing and talking as they volunteer with a food pantry in new Mexico.

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…

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