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Spotlight on Loretto wisdom women – April 2023

By Joy Jensen SL / April 1, 2023 /

Editor’s note: We are featuring interviews of Loretto Community elders. We are grateful to the sisters and to Joy Jensen for sharing wonderful snapshots of our beloved Community members. Today…

Storm upends trees, disrupts power and water at the Motherhouse

By Loretto Community / April 1, 2023 /

By Cathy Smith On Friday, March 3, storms upended trees and disrupted power supply to the Loretto Motherhouse. Thankfully, no one was injured, but a massive tree fell and took…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / April 1, 2023 /

Many of us are familiar with the sermons and writings of Meister Eckhart who lived between 1260 and 1328. He has become popular in the past several years because of…

Teamwork shows the future is bright

By Susan Classen CoL / April 1, 2023 /

Abraham Lincoln once said, “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” If the days of the week of Feb. 10-17 are any…

38th annual MLK Jr. birthday celebration is a success

By Pat McCormick SL / March 1, 2023 /

Jan. 16, 2023 was the Loretto Community’s 38th year to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The event is known as a Marade. In 1983, the U.S. Congress introduced…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / March 1, 2023 /

During the past several years, according to a variety of surveys, there has been a notable decrease of Christians attending religious services and a lesser decrease in other religious traditions,…

¡Presenté! Pearl McGivney honored

By Kathy Wright SL / March 1, 2023 /

On a beautiful sunny day in Auburndale, Fla., I attended a ceremony held by a group of Young American Dreamers to honor Pearl McGivney’s work with them. Auburndale is where…

Conservation easement now a reality

By Martha Alderson CoL / March 1, 2023 /

“For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the skies, For the love which from our birth over and around us lies.” The singing of this hymn began…

Paying a call on Loretto’s faithful partners at Sunset Printing

By Christina Manweller / March 1, 2023 /

We enter Sunset Printing’s lobby to find Kim Clem bidding welcome with a beautiful smile. Kim and Eddie Clem have been running Sunset Printing since 2008 when they took over…

Anna and Mary Ann off to Pakistan

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2023 /

On February 10 Anna Koop and Mary Ann McGivern left Louisville, Ky., destined for Lahore, Pakistan. They flew from Louisville to Dallas, to Doha in Qatar, then on to Lahore.…

A rewarding visit to Shaker Village

By Eleanor Craig SL / March 1, 2023 /

Recently a small group from Loretto Motherhouse paid a neighborly visit to the site of one of Kentucky’s oldest religious communities. We sought wisdom from their experience, so like Loretto’s.…

St. Mary’s welcomes new president

By Loretto Community / March 1, 2023 /

St. Mary’s Academy in Denver will have a new president beginning July 1, 2023. Iswari Natarajan will be the eighth school president. She has been on the school staff, including…

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