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Loretto’s collaborative efforts extend its mission to work for justice, act for peace

By Loretto Community / September 9, 2024 /
Beth Blissman CoL and five other people of varying ages and races smile for a selfie together.

What is the invitation of our time? What crossroads are we facing? What is missing from a community picture? What collaborations sustain us? These are questions that many religious communities…

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Looking beyond Loretto: Bringing our work for justice and acting for peace to the wider world

By Loretto Community / September 3, 2024 /
A pair of hands shape a clay hand to go on a sculpture, visible laying on a workspace in the background.

In a recent Midweek Mission Message, longtime Loretto Co-member Martha Alderson acknowledged, “Sometimes we underestimate the value of reaching out beyond ourselves, whether on a personal level or on a…

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Celebrating Havern & Escuela de Guadalupe: two beloved Denver schools Loretto has long supported

By Loretto Community / August 19, 2024 /
A school staff member walks down the hallway hand in hand with a child wearing a backpack.

To celebrate the long legacy of Loretto education, and in keeping with Back To School Week for many students, we wish to acknowledge the wonderful work being accomplished at Havern…

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Imagine yourself here at Loretto Retreat Centers

By Loretto Community / August 12, 2024 /
Yellow flowers in the foreground frame a white statue of the Virgin Mary standing in the middle of a lake.

“Once we start to think about the kind of world we are leaving to future generations, we look at things differently; we realize that the world is a gift which…

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Loretto’s Midweek Mission Message: Mission focused and issue driven

By Loretto Community / July 29, 2024 /
An older woman with white hair stands in the doorway of a shed holding a broom looking at the camera.

This week Loretto’s Facebook page will feature posts from Loretto’s “Midweek Mission Message.” Midweek Mission Message, or MMM for short, is a weekly email series that highlights various mission focuses…

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Loretto archivists: Caretakers? Detectives? Techies? All of the above!

By Loretto Community / July 15, 2024 /

The Loretto Heritage Center includes both an Archive and a Museum where the 200-plus-year history of the Sisters of Loretto and the 40-plus-year history of the Loretto Community are documented…

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Sharing with grateful hearts

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
Three older women are pictured standing and talking as they volunteer with a food pantry in new Mexico.

By Barbara Hagan CoL, Chair, Loretto Hunger Fund Loretto’s Hunger Fund has helped feed the hungry for 50 years. The Stop Hunger Fund, as it was initially called, was established…

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Serving in Ghana

By Christina Manweller / June 24, 2024 /
An older woman in a blue dress and glasses stands over a young student working on a computer to offer support.

A spirit of joy is truly prevalent at Blessed Trinity Leadership Academy. Pauline Albin SL The congregation of the Daughters of the Most Holy Trinity (FST) is a Ghanaian community…

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Loretto Community members and students bond

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
A high school student with big black round glasses and braids smiles softly while wearing a dark purple sweatshirt

Sister of Loretto and teen cherish their connection This has been a very positive opportunity for conversation with the younger generation. Maria Visse SL meets with St. Mary’s Academy student…

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Feeding the unfed: Loretto responds to famine in India in the mid-1970s

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

Loretto’s Stop Hunger Fund (now simply called the Hunger Fund) financed the nonsectarian Child-in- Need Project for India which fed starving children in two regions following severe drought and crop…

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Doctor follows in Ann Manganaro SL’s footsteps, serves in Central America

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /
A pediatrician reaches over a student to show him how to examine an eardrum of a patient.

By Lauri Pramuk, M.D. Inspired by the story of Ann Manganaro SL and her commitment as a pediatrician to the people of El Salvador, in 2020 I helped open a…

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Loretto’s two peace committees take small & large steps to cultivate peace

By Loretto Community / May 20, 2024 /
Pat Geier CoL, dressed for cold weather, speaks at a microphone to a group of people gathered outside a building.

The Loretto Motherhouse Peace Committee reactivated this past summer after having had to pause during the early pandemic. Taking small steps for justice is an important way to cultivate a…

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