Ilia Delio, OSF

In a world marked by violence and death, suffering does not have the last word. The last word is love and that love is the fullness of Christ, the Word of God. 

Prayer begins in the poverty of the desert and is the cry of the poor person who is far from home and seeks the way to the source of life.

Christ, the Word incarnate, is the person in whom each person finds his or her unique meaning and origin.

We are called to find God in fragile human flesh, encounter him and let ourselves be fully embraced by him.

Franciscan prayer begins with encountering the God of overflowing love in the person of Jesus Christ and ends with embodying that love in one’s own life.

God has entered into the darkness of every human heart and has loved us in the midst of pain and rejection.