What is Emerging?
Anyone living today who is not aware of the crisis our world is in has to be existing with their head in the sand. For years now individuals who have developed a higher consciousness have warned humanity of the breakdown…
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Spotlight on Loretto Wisdom Women – July 2023
Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to these wise women and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. This month’s feature highlights Maureen Fiedler, Peg Jacobs and Joy…
Loretto’s Past Comes to Life with “A Sisterhood on Fire”
By Sarah Hoeynck Motherhouse in 2017, I listened to Eleanor Craig read the poem “Upon This Hill” by Cecily Jones. This powerful work and its obscure historical references inspired me to research the various fires at Little Loretto and the…
Congratulations Loretto’s Newest Co-Members
Welcome to our newest co-members, Theresa Miller and Pam Morgan! Theresa and Pam were accepted into co-membership on June 5, 2023. They are well known in the Community: Pam lives in Kentucky and works at the Motherhouse; Theresa lives in…
A Pride Month proclamation in Cedar Falls, Iowa
In April 2023, the Cedar Falls (Iowa) Human Rights Commission drafted a proclamation calling for June to be declared Pride Month. The proclamation was sent to the city council for its approval at its May 1 meeting. Two days prior…
What to do about global plastic pollution?
I’m not sure about you, but when I grew up in the 1960s there were not many single-use plastics in our everyday lives. To me it makes no sense whatsoever to make something that I’m going to use for a…
Filing Your Taxes
Here is my dream: You, the reader, are saying to yourself, “I can’t wait to read this Midweek Mission Message! It includes two of my favorite words, filing and taxes!” I doubt my dream is reality, but please slog through with…
Loretto members recommend favorite books, podcasts!
On Loretto’s Facebook page this week we will feature a few of Loretto’s favorite podcasts and books for your summer listening and reading pleasure. You may be surprised by what you discover. They may offer you new ideas or an…
Ann Manganaro SL, M.D.: Gifted physician, teacher, poet
In I Am the Way, the Constitutions of the Sisters of Loretto, the section titled “Charism” in article #9 calls persons to loving service “to work for a future in which the poor and suffering, the hungry in body and…
The True Cost of the Paper We Use
The Loretto Community has taken up Pope Francis’s call. In 2018 he said, “Get rid of useless baggage,” referring to empty chatter and harmful consumerism. Laudato Si’ calls on us to use less energy and fewer raw materials. In response, the Loretto Community Forum…
Loretto launches new Justice Fellowship Program
Loretto’s leadership has approved the Loretto Justice Fellowship as the successor to the Loretto Volunteer Program. The Loretto Justice Fellowship begins its pilot year in El Paso in 2023 in partnership with the School of Social Work at the University…
The award-winning Infirmary is now Loretto Living Center at Loretto Motherhouse
The Loretto Infirmary, now called Loretto Living Center at Loretto Motherhouse, continues the award-winning standard of providing holistic care that promotes comfort, security and dignity in a homelike environment. The Living Center is a nonprofit, licensed healthcare organization responsible for…