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Spiritual Reflections

These are reflections given by Loretto members at Sunday services.

Reflection on Pentecost Sunday

By Agnes Ann Schum SL / May 19, 2024 /

(Editor’s note: This is a joint reflection by Agnes Ann and Mary Nelson CoL.) Do you think there was really a noise like a strong wind at this first outpouring…

Monday Starter: Sisters join other Catholics in letter to stop US weapons to Israel

By Loretto Community / May 14, 2024 /

Published by Global Sisters Report on May 4, 2024 More than 150 sisters, along with organizations that represent them, have signed a letter urging a halt of U.S. arms shipments to…

Reflection on the Seventh Sunday of Easter

By Kathy Wright SL / May 12, 2024 /

When I read the first reading, my thoughts turned to upcoming elections, both ours and those taking place here in the U.S. in November. It is interesting to look at…

The Ascension of the Lord

By Mary Swain SL / May 9, 2024 /

Acts 1:1-11, Eph. 1:17-23, Mark 16:15-20 Editor’s note: The Solemnity of the Ascension will be observed Sunday, May 12, in the Louisville Archdiocese. The feast was transferred to that date…

Reflection on the Sixth Sunday of Easter

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / May 5, 2024 /

At the Catholic Worker at Mass we took turns preparing a homily. One day the homilist forgot, and so she said, “The Gospel speaks for itself.” Well, yes, and this…

Reflection on the Fifth Sunday of Easter

By Eileen Custy SL / April 28, 2024 /

Growing up, I remember vines loaded with morning glories popping up every spring along the fence on the front of our property. No one ever did anything to care for…

Reflection on the Fourth Sunday of Easter

By Eleanor Craig SL / April 21, 2024 /

Acts 4:8-12 1 John 3:1-2 John 10:11-18 “Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said, ‘It was in the name of Jesus Christ … that this man … is healed. There…

Reflection on the Third Sunday of Easter

By Mary Ann McGivern SL / April 14, 2024 /

In the first reading, Acts, Paul is angry and he says to his listeners, “You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.”…

Reflection on the Second Sunday of Easter

By Mary Swain SL / April 7, 2024 /

Acts 4:32-35, 1 John 5:1-6, John 20:19-31   Several years ago, during the Easter Vigil Elaine Prevallet quoted a phrase from a poem of Wendell Berry’s.  He used the expression, “Practice resurrection.” …

Reflection on Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

By Eleanor Craig SL / March 31, 2024 /

Acts 10:34-43                      1 Cor 5:6-8               Mark 16:1-7 We have arrived this morning, at the conclusion of Holy Week, to greet a new day.  With one third of the peoples of…

Reflection on Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

By Kathy Wright SL / March 24, 2024 /

For many years this Gospel was a mystery to me. Jesus, who usually shunned the role of a public figure at the center of everyone’s attention who was to be…

Reflection on the Fifth Sunday of Lent

By Eleanor Craig SL / March 17, 2024 /

The very familiar Gospel story of Lazarus’ death and rising has so many Christian themes running through it: death and dying, of course; life and hope; faithful friendship; rising and…