
An Easter Reflection from Sr. Ilia

Crum Creek Visitation
I recently encountered a great blue heron while teaching my Swarthmore College class, Religion and Ecology. I was conducting a three-hour class meeting in the Crum Woods, the scenic watershed…

The Resurrection and the beginning of a new earth
Faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ expresses the belief that “Love is strong as death” (Song 8:6). Resurrection is the greater strength of love in the face of death.…

Dead and Alive
He is not here! But we are… Tragedy and Beauty Sorrow and Mystery Innocent lives killed in the midst of God’s glory. What kind of God is this Who rises…

An Easter Reflection on Suffering, Death, and Resurrection
There is no compassion without suffering, no transformation without death. No growth without decay, no development without loss, no complexity without danger. Imagine how it feels for a loving God…

SUFFERING AND DEATH: A REFLECTION
Each day we awake to a new world of struggle.The abuse crisis of the Catholic Church continues unabated, children and refugees are held captive in the U.S. borderland camps, racial…

To Die on the Day of Resurrection
One year before Teilhard de Chardin died, his nephew heard Teilhard say that, “I should like to die on the day of Resurrection.” A year later, on April 10th, 1955…

Second Annual Omega Center Conference
Love at the Heart of the Cosmos: Living in Relational Wholeness Commonwealth Chateau at SugarLoaf Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA December 6th – 8th, 2019 Check-in begins Friday, December…