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Spiritual Reflections

These are reflections given by Loretto members at a variety of services.

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Reflection on the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Loretto Community / September 24, 2023 /
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Turn to the Lord for mercy, to our God who is generous. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. Are you envious because I…

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Reflection on the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Kathy Wright SL / September 17, 2023 /
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The first reading starts off with some very good news from my perspective. It states that “wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful…

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Reflection on the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Maria Visse SL / September 10, 2023 /

God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. In today’s reading I take on faith these guidelines for life in the…

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Reflection on the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Kathy Wright SL / September 3, 2023 /

In the early 1980s, before joining Loretto, my housemate and I agreed to take in a drug and alcohol addicted 15-year-old who had been on the streets prostituting herself to…

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Reflection on the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Eileen Custy SL / August 27, 2023 /

Jesus asked, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter responded, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” For once in his life, Peter got…

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Reflection on the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / August 20, 2023 /

Midrash is expansive exposition, interpretation and explanation of the text. The facts might be a little misremembered, but the teaching is true. That’s what I remember learning in Scripture class.…

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Reflection on the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Agnes Ann Schum SL / August 13, 2023 /
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For the past several Sundays, St. Matthew the Evangelist has been weaving the story of Jesus’ ministry as teacher.  He has been traveling from town to town publicly giving his…

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Reflection on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

By Eileen Custy SL / August 6, 2023 /
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This has always been a special day for me. I had the privilege of visiting Mount Tabor, the very place where this event took place. It is a fairly high…

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Reflection on the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / July 30, 2023 /
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The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field. What do we treasure enough that we would sell all we have to buy that field? When I…

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Reflection on the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Elisa Rodriguez SL / July 23, 2023 /
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Today’s Gospel is very complete because Jesus explains it quite well when the disciples ask Him to explain the parable to them.  However, as we read it in our own…

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Reflection on the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Susan Classen CoL / July 16, 2023 /
Sprouts coming up from the soil.

Our readings this morning both challenge and reassure us.  We’re challenged to cooperate with change and reassured that God is with us calling forth life. The Gospel of Matthew was…

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Reflection on the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Kathy Wright SL / July 9, 2023 /

Five hundred years before Jesus was born, Zechariah, a prophet in his time, wrote about how Jerusalem and Zion would be saved. He was living in a time when the…

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