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Most everyone has received postcards from friends having fun while traveling to beautiful and interesting places, and hopefully we’ve had the opportunity to send a few, as well. Postcards are an immediate, brief form of correspondence and a quick and…
Loretto’s 2024 Assembly begins this week and continues in the next. We invite you to join Community members in the following prayer (early and often!) for Loretto in preparation for and during the Assembly. Prayer for Loretto Community Members As…
At the April meeting of our discussion of “I Am The Way” (Loretto’s constitutions), our group was getting close to the end of the booklet when one of our members suddenly discovered the very last page was empty with the…
Since the Loretto Community Land Justice Focus Team formed in 2022, Libby Comeaux and I have been connecting with various individuals and agencies in San Elizario, Texas. I am delighted to give you a glimpse of San Elizario through the…
Mother’s Day has rushed toward us and away. Are we ready to remember, to share memories? We have had great mothers and it is still time to think of them. My dear Ozark Mom, with only a fourth-grade education and…
In April, the Community celebrated Foundation Day at the Motherhouse and Nerinx Hall High School. At Nerinx, students, faculty, Loretto members and guests enjoyed presentations, discussions, refreshments and socializing. Jen Staed was enthusiastically welcomed as Loretto’s newest co-member.
Ann Kammien has been a Loretto Co-member for 43 years. It might be said that she was born into Loretto. When she arrived on Feb. 25, 1956, she was named Elizabeth Ann Compton, in honor of her aunt Sister Elizabeth…
Posted by the Lebanon Enterprise on Aug 3, 2023 LOUISVILLE — Kentucky Farm Bureau is proud to announce the acceptance of Loretto Motherhouse Farm, located in Marion County, into the 2023 Kentucky Farm Bureau Certified Farm Market Program. As a…
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 – San Elizario, Tx. 1. Peoples with claim to San…
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, who lives in a happy family in Hiroshima, Japan, 10…