Forty years ago, Sister Loretta Cornell answered a call from God: “It was so clear,” she recalls. “God touched my heart.”  She entered the Mission Helpers on September 12, 1982. 
 
She earned a bachelor’s degree from the Notre Dame of Maryland University and a master’s degree in Religious Studies from Fordham University in New York.  In 1991, she became a resident counselor at Boys’ Hope, a living and learning program for boys unable to live at home.  She was later named co-director of a New Jersey-based program that worked with families and children in foster care. 
 
Back in Baltimore in 1995, Sister Loretta served as pastoral assistant at Our Lady of Fatima parish, and later taught world religions and served as campus minister at Seton Keough High School.
 
She served as Treasurer and as an advisor in administration of the Mission Helper
Community, and in 2004 she was elected president and was re-elected in 2012. She served for eight years.  Today, Sister Loretta is an advisor to the Community Service Board and serves as liaison with the elderly Sisters in residence at Caritas House and St. Martin’s Home, both in Baltimore.
“Through the years there have been many milestones,” she says. “’I am blessed to have shared these ministries, and I’m grateful for all the blessings I have received during my service to God’s people.”