In what has been undoubtedly one of her busiest years to date, Professor Catherine Bennett, past student of Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak, took a moment to reflect on her time as a Loreto student and share her…
“By the end of my time at Loreto, I walked out into the world thinking I could genuinely do anything I wanted to.” Long before Sophie Payten became Gordi, the much-loved ARIA-nominated musician…
Up until this year, the term Twenty-twenty usually referred to normal visual acuity, but it now also means the year our planet was turned on its head by a virus! All aspects of what many thought was a regular routine…
On May 19, 2002, Sister Mary Wright ibvm (General Superior at the time), wrote a letter to all members of the Institute entitled ‘Courage to Move’. Courage to Move invited Provinces to look at the needs of…
The season of Advent offers us an opportunity to pause as we wait for signs of hope and of new life. As the tumultuous year of 2020 draws to a close, this season of renewal has acquired unusual resonance…
Christmas must have been a time of homesickness for the early Loreto Sisters with friends and family so far away. Mother Gonzaga Barry described their first Christmas Day as a community at Mary’s Mount…
At the beginning of 2020 our first project was to refresh VCAL. We wanted to put our Loreto stamp on this unique program. What our students developed encapsulated the essence of a Loreto…
Loreto Vietnam understands the importance of clean water, basic toilets and good hygiene for the survival and development of every human being, especially children. However, many children…
In this upside-down year, it may be of little surprise that my approach to Pope Francis’ latest encyclical is to start it from the end! There is much in the encyclical that excites me…
In our present time of instant communication and ease of travel, the story of Mary Ward and her life-long desire to seek and know God’s will, can seem like a struggle way beyond human resilience…
