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The heart of the Rocky Mountains, Denver has been home to Loretto members since before Colorado became a state. We continue to build on our mission of education and service to people in need.

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Sisters of Loretto continue to educate, even beyond the grave

By Loretto Community / July 22, 2022 /

Now that the remains of all 62 Sisters of Loretto have been exhumed from Loretto Heights Cemetery, Loretto leadership recently gave permission to Lauren Hosek, Ph.D., to conduct an analysis…

Loretto Heights provides affordable housing

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / July 12, 2022 /

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pancratia Hall has been carefully restored and renovated into affordable housing apartments including a number of three and…

Bringing Sisters Back Together: Loretto Begins Exhumation of Sisters Buried in Loretto Heights Cemetery

By Loretto Community / July 6, 2022 /

Five years ago, with the announcement of the pending sale of the Loretto Heights campus, Loretto began prayerful and thoughtful research into how the Community could best ensure the perpetual…

Standing on the Shoulders of the Ones Who Came Before Us

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / June 1, 2022 /

On April 25 we gathered in the Loretto Heights cemetery in Denver to celebrate Loretto’s Foundation Day and honor “the ones who came before us.” Attendees included several sisters of…

Standing on the Shoulders of the Ones Who Came Before Us

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / May 24, 2022 /

On April 25 we gathered in the Loretto Heights cemetery in Denver to celebrate Loretto’s Foundatio Day and honor “the ones who came before us.” Attendees included several sisters of…

“Our Lady of Light” Finds a Permanent Home in Santa Fe

By Susanna Pyatt / April 1, 2022 /

Many Loretto Community members may remember the painting “Our Lady of Light” that hung in the convent in Santa Fe, N.M., and then at St. Mary’s Academy and the Loretto…

A Field of Our Own: Playing Together, Growing Together

By Magdalena McCloskey CoL / April 1, 2022 /

If you’ve been reading Interchange, you know I’ve been playing softball with the Colorado Peaches, the group of older women founded 31 years ago. I’m learning so much along the…

Love and Joy of Osceola House Live On

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / December 1, 2021 /

Bidding farewell to a home, to a house of hospitality, where the companionship, the conversation and the cuisine have been delightful is hauntingly hard. Loretto’s paving the way for a…

Happy 100th to Holy Family High School

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2021 /

By Marty Lally It was September 1921 and a new school was opening at Holy Family Catholic Church in northwest Denver. Thus began the parish’s long relationship with the Sisters…

EarthLinks: 25 years bringing healing beauty of nature to homeless individuals

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / July 15, 2021 /

EarthLinks … creates Earth-centered programming for people experiencing homelessness and economic poverty. EarthLinks program participants are given a safe, peaceful space to foster empowerment resilience, and collectivity while also sustaining…

Micah McCabe, a Female Prophet and Tobin Award Winner

By Anna Koop SL / July 1, 2021 /

It was a beautiful day on May 19 when we gathered on the hill in front of Holy Family High School in Denver. Family, friends, administration and faculty of the…

Foundation Day at Loretto Heights

By Mary Nelle Gage SL / June 1, 2021 /

To honor Foundation Day (April 25, 1812) in Denver, sisters, co-members, Spirit of Loretto Committee members, alums, neighbors from north of the cem- etery and Denver City Councilman Kevin Flynn…

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