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

By Loretto Community / September 9, 2024 /

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…

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

By Loretto Community / September 3, 2024 /

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…

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

By Loretto Community / August 19, 2024 /

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…

Imagine yourself here at Loretto Retreat Centers

By Loretto Community / August 12, 2024 /

“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…

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

By Loretto Community / July 29, 2024 /

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…

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…

Sharing with grateful hearts

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

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…

Serving in Ghana

By Christina Manweller / June 24, 2024 /

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…

Loretto Community members and students bond

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

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…

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…

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

By Loretto Community / June 24, 2024 /

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…

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

By Loretto Community / May 20, 2024 /

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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