Dear Sisters and Brothers, Members, Partners, and Friends of the Conference,
Christmas greetings from the National Office in Chicago!
Conference Staff and the Board of Directors want to take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful Christmas. It is a privilege to journey alongside you and, together, embody God-with-us in a world in need of Christ's Good News of justice, love, and peace.
May these special days be filled with warmth and joyful celebration.
This Christmas unwrap your heart
and let it go into the storm of human hearts,
and see if in that storm there are bleeding hearts.
Where love meets flesh, Christ is born.
Pain, suffering and violence do not have the last word.
When the heart is healed, war will end.
When the heart is made whole, peace will follow.
The world will flourish when the human heart
becomes a hearth of blazing love.
-Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD
We invite you to enjoy this video of the Old St. Patrick's Concert Singers performing Silent Night, Holy Night with Chicago's Metropolis Symphony Orchestra. It is a beautiful rendition of this timeless favorite.
Merry Christmas!