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An Easter Reflection from Sr. Ilia

By Ilia Delio

Easter is a beautiful season, bursting with renewal and wonder. It reminds us of the extraordinary power of God's love—the power to raise what is dead into new life. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a past event; it reveals our very purpose: to live renewed lives in God. Yet the path to resurrection is not one of ease. The journey Jesus walked was marked by darkness, betrayal, abandonment, and doubt. At any moment, he could have turned away; however, he remained faithful to his calling, embracing his life’s mission. Jesus died a thousand little deaths to break open the new reign of God. He shows us that death opposes life when we refuse to live. To be...

Omega Center Conference Slides

By Center for Christogenesis | January 21, 2020

Click on the slides below to view our conference presenters’ slides: Does AI Need Religion? Exploring Teilhard’s Noosphere by Ilia Delio + Inside Our Awakening Universe The New Cosmic…

Ritiro Omega Discussion Group: The Cosmic Christ and Revolution

By Sr Paula Scraba | January 15, 2020

The Ritiro Omega Discussion Group met in December, 2019 to reflect on the blog by Sr. Ilia Delio from September 30, 2019 The Cosmic Christ and Revolution and Posted Comments.…

Praying in Teilhard’s Universe

By Ilia Delio | January 14, 2020

Thomas of Celano, the first biographer of Saint Francis of Assisi, wrote that Francis did not so much pray as he became a “living prayer.” I think the same could…

New Year 2020

By Ilia Delio | December 31, 2019

Dear friends, Today, on the penultimate day of 2019, I saw a rainbow stretched across the sky in a spectrum of light. A rainbow symbolizes a bridge between the present…

Interview: Uncovering New Ideas and Truths by Integrating Science and Religion

By Ilia Delio | November 24, 2019

In this wide ranging and fascinating interview with Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, Ilia first shares her background and how she developed an interest in…

God and the World in Teilhard

By Don Viney | October 11, 2019

In April 1934, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote to Henri du Lubac, a fellow Jesuit, “I mistrust metaphysics (in the usual sense of the word), because I smell a geometry…

Volunteer with Omega Center

By Center for Christogenesis | October 7, 2019

Dear Omega Friends, Change is in the air, both with the season of autumn and here at Omega Center. We just held our first ever livestreaming webinar, our annual conference…

Way of posthuman life could revitalize religious communities

By Ilia Delio | October 3, 2019

Research on posthumanism shows that the autonomous liberal subject is giving way to a new hybridized person, the “posthuman.” How does this affect religious life? In an earlier column I…

Warming, Warming, Gone! Who Will Survive Climate Change?

By Ilia Delio | September 24, 2019

Last week the prophet of the green movement, Greta Thunberg, landed in the U.S. after traveling by boat on the high seas to avoid the high carbon footprint of air…