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Earth
As Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross, we are called to care for Earth in its pain, to celebrate its beauty, and to create space for its healing. Recognizing our role as one of interdependent partnership with all Creation has been part of Loretto’s mission throughout our history. We reaffirmed our commitment to resist systems and conditions that violate Earth and all species in 2018, calling ourselves to “significantly mitigate our impact on climate change and ecological degradation.” We invite any who are interested to join with us on this journey of ecological conversion. Learn more about our mission to protect Earth.
Loretto’s Carbon Reduction Fund Helps Support Earth’s Restoration
In “All We Can Save,” Katharine Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson write, “To address our climate emergency, we must rapidly, radically reshape society. We need every solution and every solver. As the saying goes, to change everything, we need everyone.…
Winter Solstice Celebration – Registration closed
Celebrate Earth by joining Loretto Outreach and LEN (Loretto Earth Network) for one of our seasonal online rituals. The online Winter Solstice Celebration will be December 21, 6:30-7:30pm Eastern. Bring a candle and your love-of-Earth spirit as we honor this…
Loretto Motherhouse Farm Ag Bash
Facilitating learning events for the surrounding community continues to be central to the Farm’s work. Over the past six years the Loretto Motherhouse Farm has hosted Farmer Field Days to share research projects, environmentally-focused farming practices and more with local…
Loretto Motherhouse Farm Works to ‘Care for our Common Home’
The Loretto Motherhouse Farm, formerly St. Stephens Farm, has been a productive farm operation since at least the late 1700’s, before the Sisters of Loretto were organized. In its earliest days the Farm provided sustenance for those who lived and…
Loretto is embracing Laudato Si’ spirituality
In “Laudato Si’” Pope Francis urges upon us nothing less than an ecological conversion. Conversion connotes a life-changing spiritual, and resulting physical, transformation. It can be something familiar, like leaving all to follow a religious vocation, or welcoming a baby…
Loretto Members Share Ways to Live Simply So Others May Simply Live
The poet David Whyte says, “The doorway to a radical, numinous simplicity, seems to be reached by the long and difficult path of generosity.” Loretto Constitutions say, “By our vow of poverty, inspired by Christ who became poor for us…
In the Service of Life: Loretto Celebrates Earth
Life is not a highway strewn with flowers,Still it holds a goodly share of bliss,When the sun gives way to April showers,Here’s a thought that we should never miss:Though April showersMay come your way,They bring the flowersThat bloom in May;And…
Monday Starter: Loretto Community celebrated 30 years of environmental ministry
Published by the Global Sisters Report on March 28, 2022 As part of the United Nations’ annual two-week Commission on the Status of Women, the Loretto Community celebrated a congregational milestone: the 30th anniversary of its environmental ministry, the Loretto…
Celebrating 30 Years of the Loretto Earth Network
Please join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Loretto at the UN – and the Loretto Earth Network – at the Commission on the Status of Women 66, whose theme concerns gender equity in the climate context. We are…
Climate Change as a Root Cause of Migration: Exploring Contributing Factors and Interlinkages
Join us at the UN NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 66th Forum where the LACC (Loretto Latin America/Caribbean Committee) will host the event, “Climate Change as a Root Cause of Migration: Exploring Contributing Factors and Interlinkages.” The…
Climate Justice Workshop – Building Radical Hope in the Climate Crisis
You are invited to join in this free Climate Justice workshop on Zoom. Feel free to invite your friends and spread the word! Jessie Rathburn, Earth Education and Advocacy Coordinator for the Loretto Community, will lead an interactive workshop on…