Midweek Mission Messages
Midweek Mission Messages are articles highlighting different mission focuses and/or issues that Loretto is committed to addressing. Go here to sign up for the weekly Midweek Mission Message emails.
Almost every presidential campaign has slogans. One that could be repurposed for today’s presidential election is Lyndon Johnson’s anti-Goldwater slogan, “In your guts, you know he’s nuts.” Johnson’s far more lasting slogan…
Sometimes we underestimate the value of reaching out beyond ourselves, whether on a personal level or on a community level. We like the comfort of an intimate space where we…
Over 400 children and grown-ups showed up at Loretto Motherhouse on Saturday, Aug. 3, to play in the corn, soybean and wheat boxes (no sand here), pet the four-day-old chicks…
On Aug. 6, 2024, the Loretto Peace Committee held a beautiful prayerful remembrance Zoom to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. You can watch the recording below.
Loretto at the UN is happy to announce an inspiring new partnership with the global organization Sisters Rising Worldwide (SRW). SRW is a relatively new nonprofit making it possible for sisters to overcome…
Every Monday, Loretto retreat staff Susan Classen and JoAnn Gates write a Monday Musing reflection for social media. In case you don’t have social media we’d like to share a…
The Loretto Peace Committee decided last August to promote Eleanor Coerr’s historical novel for children about an 11-year-old named Sadako. Sadako [Sa da’ ko] is a healthy girl, a runner on the middle school track team,…
Is the reality of people crossing our southern border with Mexico the snapshots you see on the news at least two or three times a week? Isn’t crossing borders a…
The San Carlos Apache tribe in Arizona is still trying to save the holy land at Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat, from destruction. Our April 3 MMM included an Action Alert…
In 1824, the Loretto sisters and early community were uprooted from Little Loretto, land they had occupied since 1812. The bishop had asked them to move so that a group…
Christina Garcia CoL was accepted as a co-member on March 21, 2023. She and her husband and two daughters live in Denver where she is a teacher at St. Mary’s…
Between 1956 and 1972, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) periodically flushed water containing chromium down Sandia Canyon. In 2005 a toxic plume of hexavalent chromium was discovered in ground water under LANL property. Fifty years later, those responsible…
