Gifts of Seasonal Transition
For the past few months, we have experienced the working of the Spirit among us, leading us to new encounters and experiences and finding new ways of living and nourishing our spirit. Hope and joy come as gifts of…
Education in the Time of a Pandemic
Schools faced many challenges during 2020 from lockdowns, to restricted parent access and gatherings, to shifting to remote learning, however, I am glad to say that not only did Loreto College rise…
Mary Ward Connect
Each year, Year 10 students from our Australian Loreto schools are involved in the Mary Ward Connect program run by the Loreto Schools of Australia Committee (LSAC). Usually, a student exchange program…
Toward a New Future
If you are familiar with the Loreto Sisters, you would be aware that we are passionately connected to our history, particularly our foundress, Mary Ward. The Loreto Sisters have been present in the province of Australia…
Women ‘Doing Much’!
To launch the first-ever International Women’s Day in 1975, members of Loreto Toorak’s orchestra performed at a civic celebration at Melbourne Town Hall. Every year since the Mary Ward commitment to…
A Voice from the People to the People
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have inhabited, lived, worked, and cared for the land we call Australia for more than 60,000 years. This gives them a deep, complex and unique relationship with our country…
Past Student Profile | Professor Catherine Bennett
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…
Music as Medicine
“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…
From Concept to Creation: Mary Ward goes Virtual
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…
Breaking Ground in Ostico
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…