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…
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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…
Loretto protects generous swath of land at the Motherhouse in Kentucky
The Loretto Community has long been committed to caring for Earth Barbara Nicholas SL, president of the Loretto Community The Loretto Community has entered into an agreement with Bluegrass Land Conservancy to conserve more than 650 acres of land at…
Visiting Loretto in Pakistan
Anna Koop SL and Mary Ann McGivern SL recently visited the Loretto Community in Pakistan for seven weeks. Anna and Mary Ann wrote colorful and informative missives to keep the Community apprised of their experiences. Enjoy these excerpts, along with…
‘Ti Pa, Ti Pa Na Rive!’ Little by Little, We Will Continue! Resourceful Haitians Put One Foot in Front of the Other
By Christina Manweller with Barbara Wander CoL The Little Sisters have 42 missions across Haiti that include schools, clinics, hospitals, orphanages, centers for the elderly, agriculture centers and professional centers. Barbara Wander CoL When Barbara Wander CoL retired from 30…
Help for Haiti
I made my first trip to Haiti with Fonkoze USA in 2002. Loretto had been involved with Fonkoze through loans to its loan fund. Haitians’ faith, hope and perseverance under very dismal conditions were inspirational and challenging. Reading about Haiti…
Responding to Earth’s cry
The Loretto Community Carbon Reduction Fund helps to re-green, decrease harm to Earth If you get a cut or wound on your body, are you not going to care for it? Mother Earth has some wounds, too … that’s why…
Ann Manganaro SL: Poet
The out-shining, out-reaching sea-Strange mystery of life at lastBursting forth in us. Excerpt from “March 1981” Ann Manganaro SL wrote, “I sing of the light behind the sky” (1/1/1981). In her poetry, she sings, laments, shares life’s beauty and struggles.…