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Eleanor Craig SL

Mary Edith Jones was born on March 28, 1937, at DePaul Hospital in St. Louis, the first of eight children of Ernest Robert and Rosemary Furlong Jones. She grew up…
Read More1 Samuel 1:20–28 1 John 3:1-24 Luke 2:41-52 Yesterday we celebrated Jesus’ “Birth Day,” and today we celebrate his family. Jesus was given to us in a family, given to…
Read MoreSister Ann Barrett wrote a brief account of her family life in 1976. We recognize in these two paragraphs her lifelong love for her family and place of origin, an…
Read MoreJeremiah 33:14-16 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2 Luke 21:25-36 Last Sunday, the final Sunday of the liturgical year, Mary Swain pointed out to us that the Feast of…
Read More1 Kings 17:10-16 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:41-44 Widows are the heroines of today’s readings. That’s an odd reversal of scriptural stereotypes. Widows are poor and rarely…
Read MoreIsaiah 53:10-11 Hebrews 4: 14-16 Mark 10-35-45 For the last couple of months of Sunday readings, we have heard Jesus teaching his…
Read MoreAugust 15, September 8 and 15, October 25, December 8, April 25, May 24, May 31. What do these dates have in common? By the zodiac, they loosely demark the…
Read MoreNumbers 11:25-29 James 5:1-6 Mark 9:38 … 48 “Whoever is not against us is for us.” With these cryptic words, Jesus breaks through the partisan clannishness of his disciples and…
Read MoreRevelation 11:19; 12:1-10 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 7:39-56 When I rose early this morning, my Amaryllis had opened two glorious red blooms…
Read More(Editor’s Note: The first portion of this remembrance is Sister Jean Johnson’s autobiography. The latter portion was written by Eleanor Craig SL.) “On May 12, 1927, I arrived, the fifth…
Read MoreEditor’s note: This is Theresa Louise Coyle’s own account of her life, pieced together from much longer essays whichshe composed in the decades since her Golden Jubilee in 1998. “In…
Read MoreIn early March of 1970, Sister Sylvia Ginder wrote to Sister Mary Luke Tobin, then completing her 12 years as the General Superior of the Sisters of Loretto. Sylvia’s letter is…
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