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Advent Reflections 2019 – 12/8/2019

By Loretto Community / December 8, 2019 /

Week Two – Vision: To See With Prophetic Hope Prophecy and hope dance in the endless cycle that compassion weaves into the future promised by God. Our small simple acts…

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You’re Invited! Online sessions with Loretto Community & Miriam Therese MacGillis, OP

By Loretto Community / December 6, 2019 /
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January – March 2020 In 2016, Miriam Therese MacGillis, OP, a Dominican sister who is the director of Genesis Farm, addressed the Loretto Community on the 25th anniversary of the…

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Read the latest issue of the Loretto Circle eNewsletter

By Loretto Community / December 6, 2019 /
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Amy Maltz – Loretto Volunteer at the UN

By Loretto Community / December 4, 2019 /
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The 2019-20 Loretto Volunteer placed with Loretto at the UN is Amy Maltz. Amy was raised in Salem, Oregon but moved to Southern California to attend college at the University…

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Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary Named 2019 ‘Best of Kentucky’ Facility by Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities

By Loretto Community / December 4, 2019 /

Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary recently was honored with a Best of Kentucky – Nursing and Rehabilitation Award at the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities’ (KAHCF) Quality Awards Banquet at the…

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Loretto Happenings at St. Mary’s Academy

By Regina Drey SL / December 2, 2019 /
Three women pictured candidly sitting at a long table together, the woman in the middle is speaking into a black microphone to a crowd out of frame.

Fall brought several Loretto members to the St. Mary’s Academy campus. Pat McCormick, Cathy Mueller and Lisa Reynolds spoke with the junior class at SMA about their journey to work…

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What is Emerging?

By Loretto Community / December 1, 2019 /
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By Mary Ellen McElroy and Cathy Mueller Advent provides for us the opportunity to reflect and pray about our role as Mothers of God in our world today and in…

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Experiencing the Stories: Learning History That Makes Loretto Unique

By Ayla Toussaint / December 1, 2019 /
A woman with long brown hair and black-framed glasses smiling brightly for a selfie picture in an office.

When I was hired straight out of graduate school as the Loretto Heritage Center archivist, I was ecstatic. As an archivist, my job revolves around saving stories and preserving them…

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Loretto Ministry Grants Committee Announces Fall Grants

By Loretto Community / December 1, 2019 /

At Assembly 2018, Loretto approved a resolution making “$100,000 … available … in 2019 and again in 2020 and 2021 for access by Loretto Community members, vowed and co, to…

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Women of the Church Conference Evokes Tears, Affirmation and Encouragement

By Loretto Community / December 1, 2019 /
A woman, Mary Gutzwiller, with short dark grey hair, and wire-rimmed glasses wearing a white t-shirt and black lanyard smiling for a picture outdoors on a sunny day in front of a brick building with a well-manicured lawn and bushes.

By Mary Gutzwiller and Karel Disponett We attended the Women of the Church Conference, which took place Oct. 18-20 at St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Ind. It was a…

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What’s Happening on the Nerinx Campus?

By Annie Stevens CoL / December 1, 2019 /
A large white house hidden in a tree line of big aspen and oak trees. It is a sunny autumn day, the leaves start changing colors to yellow and orange.

Since the last residents of the St. Louis Loretto Center moved in 2017 and the property was sold to Nerinx Hall, many people have asked, “What’s happening on the Nerinx…

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Webster University Honors Jane Peckham Stoever with the Loretto Award

By Loretto Community / December 1, 2019 /
A woman, Jane Peckham, with short strawberry blonde hair smiling brightly for a picture outdoors at a social event wearing a blue cardigan, graphic t-shirt, and a name tag.

By Donna Day and Barbara Speas Havira The Loretto Award recognizes an alum of Webster University who carries on the community service and social values of the Sisters of Loretto,…

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