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Thoughtful and engaging news stories of interest to the Loretto Community and friends.
What is Emerging?
Recently I came across a copy of the “Occasional Papers,” a publication of LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious), summer 2012. The theme of this issue, mystery unfolding, raised my curiosity. The first article, an interview with Ilia Delio OSF,…
The Sarah Community Celebrates 25 Years
In 1997 The Sarah Community (TSC) was founded by five women’s congregations in Saint Louis, Mo., to meet the retirement and long-term care needs for their members and the general public. Since then, several Loretto residents, most recently Concha De…
Reflection on Legacy
Editor’s note: In July and August the Loretto Community participated by Zoom in sessions reviewing over 100 Community responses to these questions: What is Loretto’s legacy? Why does it matter to you? What people would benefit? The Community Forum provided…
Loretto Goes to Washington
How could we have done it without Carolyn Jaramillo? She and so many helpers worked for months to get our Loretto travelers to Washington, D.C. with confidence, excitement and eagerness for new experiences. Roberta Hudlow created a new banner behind…
Oneness and Hope from a Look at Our True History
By Kaye Edwards Overwhelming, devastating, informative and a very necessary look at the violent history of enslavement to lynching to wholesale incarceration of the descendants of people kidnapped from their homelands in Africa — these words are hardly adequate to…
What is Emerging?
Many people in the world today are recognizing that the dominant world-view of disconnection — that we are separate from each other and the natural world — is no longer working, and consequently, the old stories that keep us bound…
Teens Lend A Hand At The Motherhouse
For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, students from Loretto Academy, Nerinx Hall and St. Mary’s Academy visited the Motherhouse campus for a week of service and camaraderie. The week was a great success, with the young women…
Localization Workshop Planned for This Month
Where were you a year ago on the hot summer afternoon of July 17, 2021? Many of us were engaged in the first annual Workshop on Localization, presented by the Loretto Link Cooperative Economics Working Group in collaboration with Loretto…
What is Emerging?
Some of the oldest recorded spiritual teachings known to humanity are the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, the “Tao Te Ching,” and from ancient India, the “Vedas” and “Upanishads,” as well as the words of the Buddha. Many of these…
The Stars Allign
★ Maribah was accepted into the 2022/2023 Inter-Congregational Collaborative Novitiate (ICCN) in Chicago, Ill. ★ Maribah’s application for an H-3 visa was made and on June 21, she was given approval for a visa! Scott D. Pollock & Associates P.C.…
Loretto and St. Mary’s Academy
In my 42 years at St. Mary’s Academy (SMA), it is my current work as Director of Loretto Projects/Historian that is perhaps most satisfying, as it provides opportunities to share Loretto with students, faculty and parents. In anticipation of SMA’s…
Standing on the Shoulders of the Ones Who Came Before Us
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 Loretto, co-members, St. Mary’s staff, Loretto Heights alumnae, neighbors and…