Eleanor Craig SL

Sister Eleanor Craig SL, Loretto Community Historian, served as director of the Loretto Heritage Center Archives and Museum from 2012-2020. While beginning her Loretto ministry as a math teacher, she soon developed a way of teaching life lessons through storytelling and adventure traveling, including, as Eleanor once put it, leading more wagon trains along the old western trails than any mountain man. She is guided by an inner passion for the natural world, for history in its natural context, and for teaching beyond the walls of a school. Now into her 80th decade, Eleanor is still avidly listening, reading and writing, and telling true stories.
Two colorful banners are side-by-side. The first reads "We give You glory, thanks and praise!" The second reads "Oh bless our works and guide our ways"

Reflection on the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23       Psalm 90 (91)       Colossians 3:1-11        Luke 12:13-21 In today’s first reading, from the beginning of the book of Ecclesiastes, Qoheleth, the wisdom teacher, muses over the emptiness of…

Fishing Equipment at Keyhaven

Reflection on the Third Sunday of Easter

Acts 5: 27-41          Revelation 5:11-14          John 21:1-19 Today’s Scripture readings continue the Easter season’s focus on Jesus and his followers in the early days after his death and resurrection. They are perfect…

Reflection on the Third Sunday of Lent

Exodus 17:3-7             Romans 5:1-8             John 4:5-42 When speaking of the Scriptures, there is always a choice to be made between the familiar and a search for fresh perspectives.…

A green cotton field on a sunny day.

Reflection on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Nehemiah 8:2-10     Corinthians 12:12-30    Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 Today’s liturgical readings might best be read in the opposite order.  The third reading, the Gospel, poses a question which the second reading makes clearer and the first reading celebrates. …

Remembrance of the Life of Sister Marie Ego SL

Sister Marie Ego SL died peacefully at Loretto Living Center Jan. 23. Marie was 86 and in the 59th year of her Loretto commitment. The following is her brief autobiography, provided by Marie for her remembrance: “My early spiritual life was nurtured by being a Girl Scout, love…

A group of mostly women and one man post for a photo holding crosses and a colorful banner that reads "Loretto Volunteers: Working for Justice, Acting for Peace."

Putting the Pieces Together on Immigration

One of the most intriguing aspects of an archival collection is that it contains many bits and pieces that, woven together, reveal entire stories. Sometimes a curious researcher comes upon the many pieces of a big, international story. In the Loretto…

A vintage picture of a large white building with red roofs.

Loretto Roots tours past, present and future

Last month, Interchange included an article about a recent Loretto Roots trip from Loretto Motherhouse to Maryland, following the journeys of early Maryland Catholics and the first Loretto members. Several articles about earlier Loretto Roots trips have appeared over the…